Is our conditioning program tailored to the no time out strategy?

[General Tso]

One of a few explanations I can think of is that our coaching staff assumes we are better conditioned than other teams. The second half stretch yesterday reminded me of a Rocky bout where he lets himself get pounded on hoping the other guy just tires out.

 

[CuttyDoesIt]

Not sure it is the conditioning that is my issue with no the time outs strategy.

Its more of a "hey these guys are on a 15-0 run and our offense is just standing around lets try to stop the bleeding" kind of thing

 

[SJeagleEye]

Honestly, I think Fran does it this way to just be unique. Let the players decide it on the fly.

I think he ought to rethink his overall end of game strategy, because as a team we are pretty terrible late in games.

 

[MWardT]

Speaking of conditioning, I thought one of the reasons Uthoff might have went cold was because he got tired. He was getting good looks. If Fran doesn't want to take his best player out to rest him, use your timeouts to rest him!

 

[danny14]

Speaking of conditioning, I thought one of the reasons Uthoff might have went cold was because he got tired. He was getting good looks. If Fran doesn't want to take his best player out to rest him, use your timeouts to rest him!

Sometimes the scheduled TV timeouts are a coach's worst friend. They think they can get there without having a run against them, trying to save their TO's. They should use their timeouts to stop a run or give a rest for the starters, when necessary. Tournament TO's are about 2 1/2 minutes compared to 1 minute during the season. Teams can play their starters longer because of this and don't need to sub as much. If they lose a game and didn't use all their TO's, they didn't use them very well.