Poll: How many timeouts will we have left at the 3 minute mark in the second half?!
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Really sad that the coach has no clue how to manage the tactical side of the game. He has his center flat out gassed on the floor and 3 timeouts in his pocket and he refuses to use one to get a substitution for him.
Since it cannot be 4, the only answer left is 3. Unless the Hawks are up 30 points and Fran takes a timeout to substitute out his seniors to get the crowd acknowledgement they deserve, Iowa will not use all their TO tonight
I get your point but it's not wise to use timeouts for subs. Better to use dead ball stops.
Normally I would agree, but at that point the teams had been up and down the floor for over 3 minutes and 30 seconds and Woodbury was relegated to basically covering the center circle of the court. The game was in the last 5 minutes of an extremely tight game and Fran had 3 timeouts left, so waiting for the dead ball basically relegated Iowa to a 5 on 4 because Woody was gassed and was not contributing offensively or defensively. In my estimation, the coach needs to be aware of all of the circumstances,(exhausted player, # of timeouts remaining, and that the game could hinge on 1 or 2 possessions). I am assuming that Fran was aware of all of that and because of that I question his late game management.
Iowa has lost the last 4 out of 5 games and how many of those games did Fran head to the locker room with timeouts available?
He's talking about the Wisconsin game. Fran had 3 timeouts with less then 4 minutes left in the game. He preceded to finish the game with 3 timeouts left. That situation he was talking about was inexcusable for Fran not to call a timeout. Fran not calling timeouts in crunch time is one of the reasons he has such a bad record in close games.
Hey man, I all about using timeouts. I agree with you guys on that. Just saying I wouldn't burn them only to make subs. But hell yeah, use em if you got em.
Just trying to clarify as he didn't do a good job of explaining the actual situation he was referring to.
Sorry about the clarity on the first post, I was assuming everyone posting in this thread watched the Bucky game and understood that the "Center" for Iowa was Woodbury and the instance I referred to happened in the last 5 minutes of the game.
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