They had a play on. Being able to see the entire court helped. It definitely looked as if the executed play was not remotely close to what beard drew up.
Down 1, shoot a 3. Why does this continue to happen?
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I'm not so sure, because there was almost no moment once he got the ball. I agree the location wasn't great, but even then try running Mooney off a curl screen at the top of the key. He just tossed it to the closest player.
Speaking of Mooney, he save them so many times during the tourney, it will be interesting to see if Beard can develop an offense without him forcing the action.
The pressure of the moment destroys many warriors. Just like in the Auburn game...how does a player not know when running out on a desperation 3pt shot that the primary goal should be to not bump the shooter? Yet, it happened.
Even before that last 3-pointer by Virginia, TT was leaving shooters open, and they really haven't done that in prior tourney games. Yeah, maybe Hunter wasn't a great shooter, but he was on last night...TT needed to identify that and cover him. Even apart from Hunter, they left guys open, and they normally don't do that. They just made too many defensive mistakes...mistakes that they normally don't make.
Izzo pretty much said the same thing in his TT post-game interview. He said his team just made uncharacteristic mistakes, which I think is a polite way to say that they just didn't handle the pressure of the moment.
Yeah, easy to yell from your couch...but man was I yelling LET THEM HAVE THE PAINT as they left that shooter wide open down 3.
Tech was also jumping at every ball fake and flying past their man. It happened so much. It was odd for a disciplined team.
Yup! If you go back and watch their prior 5 tourney games, you might see that a couple of times tops.
Fair enough. It looked there was a 1-3 option. But instead of making the off ball movement needed they half-assed and didn't get the 1, but in not making the off ball effort they weren't viable options.
That was remarkable how hard they took the ball fakes. It stuck out in my mind because I don't recall in either game that they were so susceptible to the ball fakes.
Coach Beard should get the blame for the way that game ended. Virginia tied it with a three with like ten seconds left and instead of using his timeout to set up a good last second shot he lets them inbound it and Culver jacks up a contested three. I don't understand the way some coaches use their timeouts. Bennett finished the first half with all four of his timeouts even though Tech went on like a 12-0 run with four threes in a row. Not to mention CSP taking timeouts when our own team starts going on a run haha
