Do you honestly think bringing JA back in after sitting the bench made the 19 minutes of being in the doghouse meaningless? Not trying to single you out, but it blows my mind how many people seem to think that putting him in at the end undid the punishment. I have to believe the message was sent and JA knows that whatever he did cost us a win. 1 minute at the end of the game doesn't erase that.
The problem I have with the JA situation last night is if the kid did something so egregious you're going to sit him for half the game, stick to that. Don't wait until the game is falling apart and then hope he can go in cold and bail everyone else out. It doesn't negate the message, but it definitely waters it down.
Don't agree, even kids in time outs are set free at some point.
But imagine the peace and quiet if they weren't.
After the agreed upon time has passed, lets see, your grounded for the weekend, but I need you to do me a favor and if you do I'll take away the punishment. They are punished until its an inconvenience for you to stick to the punishment. If you recind the punishment for reasons other than the punishment wasn't justified, your sending a confusing message, and you do come off looking like a hypocrite.
He's not a 4 year old child. He's capable of understanding that he cost his team.
We've won two national titles since then and you're still not happy. I will take those 2 titles over 10 39-1 seasons every day of the week. I think you win the title for the historically good poster who most lost his sh/it over the last 48 hours.
It's not like he's done such a great job of it the last two years, it sure couldn't hurt and maybe with some in game coaching lessons thrown in. There are over 1000 POSTS about how POORLY KO IS COACHING and someone wrote them. I didn't. The newest complaint being his handling of JA in regards to his attempt at disciplining him in the last game, apparently just another questionable decision on a long list of questionable decisions. There is no doubt he's been making them on the court and now he's having problems off the court. Any one who has raised kids, it doesn't matter if they are 5, 10 or 20. the goal in discipline is being consistant, fair and crystal clear so the message doesn't get lost and that wasn't done here. It also applies to running a buisness and I guess maybe a basketball team? And yeah I'm aware that JA isn't 4 years old.
I never claimed to know JA. But I don't think its unreasonable to believe JA felt bad about not being in the game and watch his team fall apart because of something he did off the court (as far as we know). Him coming in after the collapse didn't erase that 19 minutes he spent watching a collapse that he couldnt be a part of. If he isn't capable of understanding that, I get the sense that he wouldn't have been on this team in the first place.
agreed, i think the ban and loss of schollies really really hurt the program... with adams, gilbert, larrier, jackson, durham, diarra, brown (hopefully) i think ollie is going to get the kids that are going to bring the program back to where it was...with bazz boat daniel and giff you could see a glipse of what he wants, pick and pop, midrange game, spread the floor with shooters, attack the basket... this year he wants to run, press, get to the line... next year and on i think you'll see a complete style that ollie wants bc he is able to the get the players he wants, especially iq wise... the past few years we've had a hodgepodge of players to fill the gaps, some that haven't worked out and some that have... if hamilton, purvis and the rest come back I see this team resembling those of precious years... right now, yes ollie has messed up with rotations, timeouts, but he can only do so much with the players... i honestly dont think hes content with the way things are going... get us to the tourney and lets see what happens...
Of course, if the "program" keeps shrinking at its current pace, this won't be true for much longer.
