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Geno end of game coaching

superjohn said:
Caught the last 4-5 minutes of their game. For as great of a coach as he is I never really know what he's doing at the end of close games. They happen so infrequently but the times I've seen it the team always looks confused...

Tonight they are down 3 with around 30 seconds Arkansas ball and a little over 3 second difference between game and shot clock. He has them play it out straight up, no first trying to pressure the ball handler trying to trap them and no attempt at a foul. He just lets the girl take the shot clock all the way to the end, UConn gets the rebound off a miss and by the time they call a timeout there's .3 seconds left. I wouldn't play that out in the men's game, there's no way in the women's game they are going to get the ball back with enough time to get it up the court to tie it. Dumbfounding.
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Why should his coaching at the end of the game be any different than what he did the previous 39 minutes and 30 seconds? It's like he took the night off or wanted to just let them play to see if anyone would take over and be the leader that so far hasn't emerged.

He seems to be trying to get Paige to be the leader but she's still playing with a team first mentality.................until the latter part of this game at least, and maybe that's the result he was hoping for.

More important to have someone become the leader of a leaderless team than to worry about losing a road game.
 
blackbird said:
He doesn’t care about winning games in the regular season. Halfway through this game it was clear he wanted them to lose.
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If you caught the second to last time out when they were down 7, Geno had a cheshire cat grin on his face and seemed very relaxed like he didn't have a worry in the world, whereas Hurley would've been looking like he was trying to escape a panic room where a bomb was about to go off.

I know nothing about Dungee other than she apparently lost 35 lbs after transferring from Oklahoma. I imagine she couldn't defend well in transition like tonight carrying that much extra weight on a 5'11" frame.

Neighbors seems like a good coach. Arkansas would've been a tourney team last year. Geno could use another rival.
 
I watched the game. I was a little confused by the advancement rules following a timeout. I think Geno wanted CW to get the ball past half court before calling a timeout then she inexplicably stopped right before half court. Still don't understand why Geno just didn't call a timeout after the rebound. It was a very bizarre end of game scenario.
 
Arkansas is a top 20, veteran team that has played an uninterrupted schedule, always scores a ton and is especially tough at home. The 3rd period was maybe the worst defensive period in Geno’s tenure. Our center was MIA on O against a small team. And we lost by a bucket, with our younger players contributing a lot. It is really hard to go unbeaten. At times, Geno has made it look easier than it is.

The biggest problem with the end of game was the team not being reminded to call immediate TO to get a reasonable chance at a shot without having to go full court. Geno’s close games are far and few between and are pretty much always against really good teams. UConn fans have heart attacks when we only win by 15. Auriemma has kept our medical expenses within reason.
 
None of this really matters, with who he has coming, they will win at least 3 straight starting next year. the people on here who said the juniors are disappointing are right. if they held their own as expected, At least be consistent, they could win it all this year too. They arent that far off this year, but the domination starts again next year for sure. He knows it.
 
Does anyone think that he was sending a message to the team about their defense. I thought it was strange that he let them play the clock down to 2 seconds and what chance would that really give them. But, he probably was thinking this is just one game during the season, I'm going to make them play defense the entire shot clock, they probably don't deserve to win anyway with the poor defensive effort. I think it was Geno just being Geno which was a teaching lesson and not really about winning a meaningless game. It will benefit them in the long run.
 
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Lucelab113 said:
He's lucky he doesn't coach in more close games.
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87Xfer said:
exactly
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That's a multi edged sword there.

Yes, I would expect his record in close games to be much "worse" than in blowout games, since it is very rare for UConn to get blown out. Probably 90% of Geno's career losses are by 10 points or less.

Also, since Geno tends to blow out the the bad teams, the only time UConn plays a close game is against higly ranked teams and better opponents. I don't think Geno's winning % would be any where near where it is if he played every game against Top-20 teams.

All that being said, the big picture thought that due to a lack of consistently playing close games, Geno's end of game acumen isn't as sharp as others, has merit.
 
ATLDYKA said:
Does anyone think that he was sending a message to the team about their defense. I thought it was strange that he let them play the clock down to 2 seconds and what chance would that really give them. But, he probably was thinking this is just one game during the season, I'm going to make them play defense the entire shot clock, they probably don't deserve to win anyway with the poor defensive effort. I think it was Geno just being Geno which was a teaching lesson and not really about winning a meaningless game. It will benefit them in the long run.
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I thought the defensive message was when he let the Razorbacks do shooting drills in the 3rd quarter by sticking to a zone.

Message was they weren't playing good man to man defense so he has to put them in to a zone. They suck at zone, so they will get blown out. Big picture message is toughen up on man to man or lose more games.
 
Chin Diesel said:
That's a multi edged sword there.

Yes, I would expect his record in close games to be much "worse" than in blowout games, since it is very rare for UConn to get blown out. Probably 90% of Geno's career losses are by 10 points or less.

Also, since Geno tends to blow out the the bad teams, the only time UConn plays a close game is against higly ranked teams and better opponents. I don't think Geno's winning % would be any where near where it is if he played every game against Top-20 teams.

All that being said, the big picture thought that due to a lack of consistently playing close games, Geno's end of game acumen isn't as sharp as others, has merit.
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Yep. I think the hot take "Geno can't coach close games" is funny. Geno loses few games (like 15% lifetime) and when he does it typically isn't by much. I guess one way to view that is the 2nd winningest coach in woman's college basketball doesn't understand the game well enough to be able to coach close games. That's possible, I suppose. Maybe, just maybe though, the guy with most natty's is college basketball is able to coach his teams up so that they can still compete in bad match ups. I'm inclined to think it is the latter.
 
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Interesting note: "Guard Chelsea Dungee finished with 37 points, the most anyone has scored against the Huskies in 21 years, and was absolutely unstoppable."
 
She was fantastic. And despite the loss, watching her and Paige go at it in the fourth was great basketball

Arkansas has a really good team. Ramirez was something too. If that’s how they play in the tournament, they’ll be hard to beat.

But Paige man..we haven’t had guards that can pass like her since Bird and Taurasi. And tbh, she’s the first player I’ve seen that I think has the potential to take GOAT status away from Taurasi.
 
blackbird said:
She was fantastic. And despite the loss, watching her and Paige go at it in the fourth was great basketball

Arkansas has a really good team. Ramirez was something too. If that’s how they play in the tournament, they’ll be hard to beat.

But Paige man..we haven’t had guards that can pass like her since Bird and Taurasi. And tbh, she’s the first player I’ve seen that I think has the potential to take GOAT status away from Taurasi.
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Ramirez had 2 points in her last outing so this was her makeup game.
 
The 11-0 run by Arkansas to start the second half went on way too long considering he had just coached the team up in the locker room. I could see a timeout in the future on the second made basket. That run had us chasing the rest of the second half. The coach allowed it to happen.
 
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husky429 said:
End of game coaching seemed fine to me. Just poor execution by the team.

Beuckers needs to take 5 more 3s a game and cut her mid-range pullups in half. Ridiculously talented player though.
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Chief needs to think about that. Often these metrics aren’t dynamic. When you drive or even do the mid range drive and pop, you are more likely to get foul......then you have opponents talent sitting on bench in foul trouble and opponents in the bonus or double bonus. Often these metrics and analytics don’t factor in all those variables.
 
It’s not just one game this team is not very good looking lousy against DePaul.
 
Scoe said:
Your supposed to beat DePaul looks like I motivated them. Team goes as Bueckers goes.
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We're supposed to beat them, yes. We blew them out by 40 through early in the 4th. Pretty good response.
 
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superjohn said:
Umm, they blew out the #17 team by 40 points.
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When I said that Uconn was down by 8. Notice that when Scoe says something the Mojo gods work, Scoe has a method to his madness.
 
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