That’s a lazy argument. Wheeler played most of the meaningful minutes. And you watched the game. They could have won. Cal just didn’t adjust. He never does.
You know what's really lazy? To ignore the rest of the game where Cal was winning and just assume that as the baseline for the other coach (it's certain he would have been in that position or better with ____ minutes to go). Incorrect - 99% of the time, teams get a rod straight up their rectum on the road at #2. If the team was healthy, we win that game, and everybody knows it.
A similarly line of thinking is exhibited on the larger scale when certain posters only look at the times that other coaches win and compare that to Cal's entire record (those asinine comments of "other coaches do x and y over the past 10 years" and when you dig deeper, you realize that they're describing an amalgamation of what Chris Beard did one year, Tony Bennett did another year, Bruce Pearl did for this 20 game stretch, etc. The post right after the one I was responding to brought up Leonard Hamilton for crying out loud. Am I getting my coaches confused or is that the same Leonard Hamilton who peaked with one lonely elite 8 appearance?
Comparing highlight clips of multiple coachs' careers to any one long run of a coach demonstrates the exact same fallacy as getting excited over a youtube highlight where a kid never misses a shot, yet it happens literally every time people get mad at Cal. That's not to say that Cal doesn't make stupid mistakes, because he surely does. But if every other coach made his correct decisions as a baseline and also didn't make his wrong decisions, then the CBB landscape would look substantially different, and we'd also see many more obvious options for replacement right now - even guys who are producing, say sweet 16 teams 50% of the time are pretty rare.
wrong. If you do not believe word travels with elite kids, families and circles you are an idiot. You are free to believe what you will.
