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[j66kicker]

Last meaningful WBB game for a couple weeks...

Baylor up 8-6 early

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

I didn't care for Kim Mulkey's comments after the game after not liking the fact that Texas pressed after she cleared her bench. What an ungracious winner.

 

[HuskyFan1125]

Aston was teaching for the next level (NCAA Tourney). With a young team I didn't mind it. I felt like i understood what she was doing and for the most part it was effective. Baylor only won 75-64 because of a couple of late baskets by Texas press.

Side note: did anyone know on the last two official reviews for the ball, Baylor had a manager or someone in Baylor warm up standing behind the officials watching the video. I don't think I have ever seen that. Pretty brazen for Mulkey to do that.

 

[Blueballer]

I didn't care for Kim Mulkey's comments after the game after not liking the fact that Texas pressed after she cleared her bench. What an ungracious winner.

Yeah it's one thing to be "bugged" by it, that's OK. But why bring it up during the post game interview? Just take the high road and enjoy your Championship. I've seen that same thing play out a few times this week. I guess some coaches will say they are going to the dance and want to work on some things but how much benefit will be gained by pressing the other team's bench? Mulkey is better off letting the fans and media complain about it.

 

[DobbsRover2]

Ouch was she pissy. To lead off the postgame interview with the attack on the Texas coaching. She really wanted to win the game by 20 and was steaming that it got down to 11 because her reserves couldn't handle the ball. You won, Kim, and act like you've been there. The Horns were fighting to the end in a tourney game, and getting ready for a similar situation in the big Tourney.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

Aston was teaching for the next level (NCAA Tourney). With a young team I didn't mind it. I felt like i understood what she was doing and for the most part it was effective. Baylor only won 75-64 because of a couple of late baskets by Texas press.

Side note: did anyone know on the last two official reviews for the ball, Baylor had a manager or someone in Baylor warm up standing behind the officials watching the video. I don't think I have ever seen that. Pretty brazen for Mulkey to do that.

She has a lot of chutzpah...amongst other things. I really do not care for Kim Mulkey. My apologies to ETT.

 

[triaddukefan]

I didn't care for Kim Mulkey's comments after the game after not liking the fact that Texas pressed after she cleared her bench. What an ungracious winner.

Thats par for the course...... I remember she said something similar after they beat GaTech in the 2012 Sweet 16.

 

[01Neaggrad02]

Can anyone post a video.....

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

Thats par for the course. I remember she said something similar after they beat GaTech in the 2012 Sweet 16.

Can anyone post a video.....

It probably isn't up yet, but she basically said that most coaches realize that when the winning coach clears their bench that it is acknowledged that the game is over and you don't press the reserves. I italicized "acknowledged" because the way she said it reminded me of Bugs Bunny playing Queen Victoria and saying, "we are NOT amused".

 

[calpedaler]

I can think of two coaches that pressed when winning coach, Geno, cleared the bench.

 

[j66kicker]

I can think of two coaches that pressed when winning coach, Geno, cleared the bench.

One was Cathy Inglese, and she got 100 hung on her next time out against Geno.

Wonder if Mulkey was trying for a more convincing MOV, under the delusion she might still be in the running for a 1 seed.

 

[DobbsRover2]

The only time Cathy's team got 100 hung on them (107 actually) was after they beat UConn at BC in January 1999 and a month later Geno kept UConn going full out at home. So unless Geno for some reason put his bench in for a close game and saw them lose the 78-66 game in Boston, that statement about Cathy doesn't seem to make sense. Perhaps another game? UConn did score 96 against BC in the 2002 BEast tourney.

 

[j66kicker]

The only time Cathy's team got 100 hung on them (107 actually) was after they beat UConn at BC in January 1999 and a month later Geno kept UConn going full out at home. So unless Geno for some reason put his bench in for a close game and saw them lose the 78-66 game in Boston, that statement about Cathy doesn't seem to make sense. Perhaps another game? UConn did score 96 against BC in the 2002 BEast tourney.

Memory fuzzy and I haven't looked it up, but I believe the 107 beating had to do with (or at least "followed") a game where Cathy left her starters in for garbage time, after Geno cleared his bench. Perhaps in the final minutes of that loss?

 

[Paul1969]

I'm very impressed with Baylor this year. They have no top 10 high school rated players on their team. No top 2o even I think. Texas has 2 (Mghee-Stafford and Ariel ATkins) this year. Mulkey is an amazing coach. She simply gets the absolute best out of each player. They will be a beast next year with the Duke transfer and Kalani Brown.

 

[DobbsRover2]

Memory fuzzy and I haven't looked it up, but I believe the 107 beating had to do with (or at least "followed") a game where Cathy left her starters in for garbage time, after Geno cleared his bench. Perhaps in the final minutes of that loss?

No mention of anything like that in the accounts of the two games, though in the previews before the rout, Cash and company definitely said they wanted revenge for being made to look like a "Division II school" (Geno would have knocked that down a few levels in his comments) at Chestnut Hill in January 1999. A month later BC was sliding and UConn was healthier, and the team scored 107. In the earlier game, both teams just played hard to the end as BC desperately tried to hold off a comeback by the #2 ranked Huskies.

Inglese did issue an apology after the 2002 BET loss to UConn, but it was just to say she was sorry that her team couldn't keep the margin closer than 42 points. Possibly something happened in the Husky win in the previous encounter, but there's no mention of it in the accounts and the final margin was just 3 points less than the biggest 2nd half lead.

 

[southie]

Mulkey will always be classless. Just because she wanted to put in in her s(cr)ubs for a meaningless 55 seconds, that doesn't mean that the other team should stop playing basketball. I guess she thinks that winning by only 11 points instead of by 20 points will lower her team's #2 seed (and get placed with UConn or Notre Dame) . . .

 

[meyers7]

I'm very impressed with Baylor this year. They have no top 10 high school rated players on their team. No top 2o even I think. Texas has 2 (Mghee-Stafford and Ariel ATkins) this year. Mulkey is an amazing coach. She simply gets the absolute best out of each player. They will be a beast next year with the Duke transfer and Kalani Brown.

They have done pretty well. Prince was #16 Hoopgurlz and #10 Bluestar. Small was #14 overall. Johnson, Small and Prince were McD's AA. So they are not completely without talent.

I agree, they should be pretty good next year. Only lose Agbuke, but get 2 McD AA's posts in Brown (#7) and Mompremier (#17), plus as you mentioned Alexis Jones (a McD AA) as long as her knee is ok.

Next year is going to be fun. Get rid of a weak Sr class (WBB-wide) from this year, will have a very strong Sr class and a really nice Fr class coming in. Lot's of teams will be better next year.

 

[meyers7]

Ouch was she pissy. To lead off the postgame interview with the attack on the Texas coaching. She really wanted to win the game by 20 and was steaming that it got down to 11 because her reserves couldn't handle the ball. You won, Kim, and act like you've been there. The Horns were fighting to the end in a tourney game, and getting ready for a similar situation in the big Tourney.

She probably shouldn't have said anything, HOWEVER to press when the winning team has emptied it's bench is, shall we say

 

[DobbsRover2]

She probably shouldn't have said anything, HOWEVER to press when the winning team has emptied it's bench is, shall we say

Yeah definitely during regular season, but this to me is Tourney prep when you won't be playing another game for a week and a half and you need to work and fight to the end. And hey, there's a few Bears player that learned a lesson that Geno instills in his players, that you play every minute on the court like you were down 10 and that you prepare yourself for whatever the other team throws at you. Maybe the lesson will help Baylor get to the FF and Kim can be thankful, just like Geno is not too ticked that Tara's team gave his team a really valuable lesson.

But yeah, Kim can be mad, but it's BAD FORM to make it the first thing she peeves on during an interview after winning the conference tournament. I think Pharrell Williams could have had a nice thought for her there about being happy instead of a crabby patty.

 

[j66kicker]

No mention of anything like that in the accounts of the two games, though in the previews before the rout, Cash and company definitely said they wanted revenge for being made to look like a "Division II school" (Geno would have knocked that down a few levels in his comments) at Chestnut Hill in January 1999. A month later BC was sliding and UConn was healthier, and the team scored 107. In the earlier game, both teams just played hard to the end as BC desperately tried to hold off a comeback by the #2 ranked Huskies.

Inglese did issue an apology after the 2002 BET loss to UConn, but it was just to say she was sorry that her team couldn't keep the margin closer than 42 points. Possibly something happened in the Husky win in the previous encounter, but there's no mention of it in the accounts and the final margin was just 3 points less than the biggest 2nd half lead.

?? I was at the "107" game in Hartford, and remember hearing later it was payback for something like my fuzzy "rub it in while my subs are in" memory, but it's been a long time....??

 

[TARZAN22]

Unreal for a Coach.
Good Coach.
Bad Mouth.

 

[Sonny44]

It probably isn't up yet, but she basically said that most coaches realize that when the winning coach clears their bench that it is acknowledged that the game is over and you don't press the reserves. I italicized "acknowledged" because the way she said it reminded me of Bugs Bunny playing Queen Victoria and saying, "we are NOT amused".

Since when does a coach get to proclaim game over? When you put your reserves in you do so at your own risk. You have no right to dictate the opposing team's strategy. Kim's comments were bush league.

 

[DobbsRover2]

Since when does a coach get to proclaim game over? When you put your reserves in you do so at your own risk. You have no right to dictate the opposing team's strategy. Kim's comments were bush league.

Depends. If a game is moderately close like this one was (though 2o is very much on the edge), the reserves should be ready for anything if there's more than a minute left on the clock. But if a team is getting slaughtered by 30-50 and the opposing coach takes pity on them and puts the reserves in and the losing team goes into a full press, that is considered kind of bush and in a few cases a coach will yank the reserves, put the starters, in and tell them to run up the score more.

 

[j66kicker]

Since when does a coach get to proclaim game over? When you put your reserves in you do so at your own risk. You have no right to dictate the opposing team's strategy. Kim's comments were bush league.

As was Texas pressing

 

[BHKitch]

It seems like the ill will started before Aston left her starters in. Kim was already looking for a fight...