Not finishing games falls on the coaching. Not executing falls on the players.

Call a timeout, yell at the old lady sitting behind the bench, punch a baby, do something. You've got to find a way to motivate your players and get them to focus.

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Posted by Dubaitiger

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Member since Nov 2005

4978 posts

Posted on 3/21/15 at 2:46 am to elprez00

This was mostly on Jones. The players act as if they could care at all to concentrate when they are shooting free throws, especially when they have a cold spell and missed a few prior.

He does not sub correctly. At 8-9 minute mark he should have put in Bridgewater and Epps and sat the 2 M's at the corner of the bench to rest them and pep them up!!!

Then insert them back after 2-3 minutes rest. Then call a timeout when a run is in the making from the other side to break the momentum of the run and to re-focus his team, change defenses, tell them to run a better offense, set plays, whatever!! He does not know how to do this.

3 timeouts is like 6 minutes rest. He could have called them back to back to back (instead of leaving themmin his pocket) to rest the starting five. That plus the rest minutes I mention above for the 2 M's, hell they could have taken a 12 minute power nap in the locker room.

The point is the top 5 players he plays too many minutes by wanting them on the floor late could have gotten 6-10 minutes of rest below the 10 minute mark, and still had a nice lead to protect but JJ does not know how to utilize a bench nor time outs.... And thats a shame for a position as head BB coach at LSU...Inexcusable

Also, our guys may be a bit talented but they are not smart enough to settle each other down. There is no leader out there...