re: We didn't lose that game last night, ...

The bench usage complaint is not wrong.

As a college coach with a thin roster or just a lack of depth in his eyes, you have to learn to buy time for your starters in the first half of games. You use the bench guys and play to whatever strengths they have in those stretches that you use them. That usually happens between the first media timeout (16 minute mark) through the last one in the first half (4 minute mark).

Failure to do this is inexcusable. You can save enough time for your starters early so that they are fresh enough later (most of the second half), when most games are really won or lost.

Jones did not accomplish this during the season.