Damn. Syr-Hous brickyard

[fluoxetine]

Because they needed to attack..gives them more opportunities plus the defense was carrying them

This is also contradictory.

I’m not trying to claim our offense was perfect but at the end of a tournament game is not really the time to be trying out new concepts. Your realistic choices are:
(a) Our normal half court offense
(b) Our slowdown offense

there is no
(c) our non-existent alternative up tempo attacking offense

 

[bac2therac]

bac, we do this all the time and haven't lost a lot of these leads. People saying this strategy "guarantees a loss" look super foolish.. we do it all the time and don't lose.

We didn't even lose to Minnesota by the way, though I'm willing to give you that one as a lost lead. But also in that game we were up 12 with like 8 minutes left and then only 4 with 3:30 left.. we weren't stalling with 8 minutes left so again it's pretty weird to attribute losing that lead to stalling.

we lost the lead to Minny and thats why it went to overtime...mirror images of games

 

[fluoxetine]

we lost the lead to Minny and thats why it went to overtime...mirror images of games

We lost most of the lead before the endgame where we stall though.

 

[FireBugOBJC]

This is also contradictory.

I’m not trying to claim our offense was perfect but at the end of a tournament game is not really the time to be trying out new concepts. Your realistic choices are:
(a) Our normal half court offense
(b) Our slowdown offense

there is no
(c) our non-existent alternative up tempo attacking offense

My man, there's a difference between half court sets and holding until the shot clock is at 10 for a last second try..they hadn't done that, and oh, it was a total failure

 

[RutgHoops]

Up 8 with 4:15 left v Cuse, Houston went slow down. Won by 16.

 

[fluoxetine]

My man, there's a difference between half court sets and holding until the shot clock is at 10 for a last second try..they hadn't done that, and oh, it was a total failure

I agree but you called our normal half court offense “horrible” so it’s unclear why you think running it was a better strategy.

 

[FireBugOBJC]

Because they had a lead so don't change it to something that relies even more on playmaking

 

[Greg2020]

I’m more football too. Hopefully Houston makes the final four. All final four/NC teams get one major test along the way. Let’s hope we were Houston’s.

Remember too this is the third straight NCAA for Houston. They already faced a couple of years of early round exits.

True but we had them. I know espn has those projections of odds to win at each point in time of a game, and I think ours would have had to be in the high 90's at it's highest with under 4 minutes to go. It is just so painful.

 

[fluoxetine]

True but we had them. I know espn has those projections of odds to win at each point in time of a game, and I think ours would have had to be in the high 90's at it's highest with under 4 minutes to go. It is just so painful.

It was approximately 90%.

If we were in that position in every game in a regular length season we would expect to lose 3 times.