To me that was a bad coaching move. He's trying to work out of his funk and so you take him out when he does a little too much. Didn't like that move but at least Fran is pretty consistent in making that move with the exception maybe being Gesell. He gives Gesell a lot of rope. His quick hook with certain players at certain times has always confused me. Partly because he trusts his players when other teams go on runs and doesn't take timeouts. But he doesn't trust them to play the right way after they make a mistake. I didn't think that turnover warranted Uthoff getting taken out of the game.
Couldn't disagree more. Clearly he was told by coaches at halftime to stop settling for jumpers and attack the basket. He does that and has some success to start the second half and then gets yanked the first time he makes a mistake. He really wasn't successful after that point for whatever reason. Not blaming that coaching decision for the bad play but if you ask me it certainly didn't help. Settling him down as you said didn't seem to work. Plus your settling him down after you told him to play more aggressive and get to the basket.
Agree to disagree. He was out of control, decided what he was going to do regardless and forced an ugly TO. Needed him to regroup and get back his mental focus. But maybe you should be coach instead of Fran.
The previous 3 plays prior to the turnover he had an offensive rebound and a layup. A nice drive and dish to Woodbury for a layup and Jok hit a 3 in there. Then the turnover happened. Then he goes to the bench. Not saying he was playing great but there where signs of life that possibly got taken away with the benching.
He was forcing shots, not getting open looks. Plus it wasn't like it was a minute into the second half and he turned the ball over. It was after several missed shots and an uncharacteristic out-of-control turnover
Really? So it's come to that in this argument? That's the waving of the white flag. We can agree to disagree. I'm more then ok with that but this line gets old.
I think Uthoff played better down the stretch than he did in the first few minutes of the second half.
If Fran would have let Uthoff stay on the floor, try and get himself going, don't you think things would have gone a little better during that stretch?
As the OP just pointed out Iowa didn't really shoot lights out after he got taken out. 3 missed shots followed by a scoring drought. Seems like maybe keeping him in there may have gotten him going. It's not like Iowa shot the ball well tonight. No one knows whether keeping him in the game would have mattered because ultimately he got taken out. Could he have stayed in there and continued to struggle? Absolutely. Did taking him out lose the game for Iowa? Absolutely not. Was it the right coaching move? I didn't think so.
