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Texas Postgame

All of this Monday Morning Quarterbacking concerning substitutions is hilarious! We are all entitled to our opinions, but Red is the only one of us getting paid to Coach the Orange! Having said that, we lost this game because of our inability to make free throws. You can argue all day about who should and should not be playing...but what is clear is that if the people who did play, make a few more free throws, we win this game...if we made 65%...we win!
Free throw shooting was definitely an issue but to say that’s the only reason we lost this game is absurd. We lost IMO because of the below in that order.

1. Chris bell
2. Reds coaching substitutions/coming out flat in both half’s
3. free throws
4. Carlos
 
Great post. I have no idea what Red was thinking. Freeman in Bell out. Carlos out Taylor in we win.
Taylor
JJ
Freeman
Davis
Lampkin
We win.
I think he was worried and wanted a second ball handler out there with no time outs left. I though JJ and Taylor were doing fine bringing the ball up. I can see what he was thinking, but it wasn't the solution. I am also dumbfounded about the offense/defense with Bell and Carlos. I know anyone is better than Bell at defense, but Carlos is not a lockdown defender.
 
Finally got to finish watching it. Really thought we were going to pull it out.

Last season, Bell made some clutch shots to lock in some of our wins late.

This game... oof. Just a veritable cornucopia of terrible plays. The bad lob to Lampkin. Touching a ball going out of bounds for absolutely zero reason. Guarding that Weaver dude that's super active and not even thinking about putting a body on him when the shots go up. Whatever happened on that pass out of bounds.

We need to get him and Carlos a good sports psychologist. They're a mess.
No we don't. Reds a basketball coach not a shrink. It's simple. Don't play them if they are not playing well. Period.
 
Is Petar a pure shooter? I feel like I don't know much about him to be perfectly honest. Players whose last names end in "ovic" generally are, but I don't want to make assumptions.
He seems to be pretty skilled and can hit a shot but I wouldn't say he's a pure shooter.
 
Finally got to finish watching it. Really thought we were going to pull it out.

Last season, Bell made some clutch shots to lock in some of our wins late.

This game... oof. Just a veritable cornucopia of terrible plays. The bad lob to Lampkin. Touching a ball going out of bounds for absolutely zero reason. Guarding that Weaver dude that's super active and not even thinking about putting a body on him when the shots go up. Whatever happened on that pass out of bounds.

We need to get him and Carlos a good sports psychologist. They're a mess.
No we don't. Reds a basketball coach not a shrink. It's simple. Don't play them if they are not playing well. Period
 
At Barclays, I noticed that During the timeout I think after the non box out, Red got in to Bell’s face. And yanked him from the game for maybe 1 possession. After Red was done yelling, Davis (may have been Taylor but pretty sure it was Davis), and gave Bell a hug because it looked like Bell was about to start crying.

But overall I agree with the sentiment that Red seems to have inherited some of JB’s worst habits.

Freeman has to play more. It looked like he was just getting rolling and then never seen again. Once our comeback flattened out, he should have been back in.

Fans got really into it the second half. Our fan base is so loyal we really deserve better. Even though I Commented to my friend how far we have fallen playing in a game in NYC and they have to close the upper deck for lack of ticket sales.
 
Hey. I wanted Jim out 10 years ago. Red completely screwed up this game. No way Carlos and Bell should have been on the floor.
Not sure how he coaches but in practice foul shooting needs to be risk reward.
Make shots practice over. Miss shots run suicides.
"Red completely screwed up the game"...is a distorted view of the facts. I am not a big fan of either Bell, or Carlos.....but who do we have that is better? You can argue Freeman should or could have played more...but the fact that he didn't doesn't make Coach Red an idiot. The guys who played, played hard enough and well enough to come back from a 16 point deficit!!!!! The little things cost this team a victory and it had nothing to do with Coach Red! The players missed foul shot that had they made, they win. Bell takes an ill advised 3 point shot, Carlos goes 1/2 from the foul line when 2/2 makes it a 2 point game, and Carlos has a key turnover on the last out of bounds play!
 
Freeman has to play more. It looked like he was just getting rolling and then never seen again. Once our comeback flattened out, he should have been back in.
Carlos played a lot less minutes, which is probably for the best, but he still played more minutes than Freeman.

Which seems not great.
 
Start Lampkin, Starling, Moore, Freeman and Davis...be an in the paint team. Moore can shoot ..give him some minutes. Bell is worthless unless he is hot which is 1 out of every 7 games ...maybe Westry can help..Boeheim must be coaching free throws at practice I would rather see Cuff than Carlos
 
I re-watched some of the second half, and I will tell you that if Freeman was in the game over Bell in the second half, we would have won the game. Nobody will ever make me think otherwise. Bell is the weak link on this team and it is even more apparent when he isn't hitting his jumpers.
 
Is Freeman hurt? Seeing posts about his wrist being wrapped.

Matt Park said his wrist was taped up.

Red didn't mention anything about an injury in his presser, just sounded like Donnie needs to work more on his defense. Red loved his offense, though.
 

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