Coach Williams has a message for those who question his time out strategy

[TarHeelNation11]

I think you're grossly exaggerating when you say only one opinion is accepted here, generally.

Oh I don't think I am at all. This timeout thread is one of few threads where lots of differing opinions are accepted. Generally the "opposing" view is shot down. We will agree to disagree though. This has been a good thread and I'm not going to instigate an argument with you.

Besides, it's tourney time!

 

[mikeirbyusa]

I don't get the "don't question someone who knows more than you" crowd. There are hall of fame coaches in the complete opposite camp hat do call timeouts. I was taught if a team goes on a run that your on court play can't stop, you call a timeout and regroup. That is a guideline. If you are taking good shots and aren't throwing it to your
Mom in the third row.....that's one thing. In our big runs we allow.....we quit doing the right things.

No, Roy won't change. He's hard headed. But, if we aren't to talk about things that are opinions and can't change.....might as well shut down the internet.

Not the questioning that bothers some, it's the attitude of "I could do so much better" that drives me nuts.

 

[mikeirbyusa]

Besides, it's tourney time!

 

[Sk1310]

Just to juxtapose... remember when Pinson threw down that massive jam in the Duke ACCT game and got the Tar Heel faithful really jazzed up? Guess what Coach K did immediately after the ball went through the hoop?

Timeout.

Stopped our momentum dead in its tracks.

Good point. Someone called a timeout after Tatums dunk (officials?) that didn't see to help stop momentum, however.

 

[Sk1310]

You can harp on it until you're blue in the face. But I'm just wondering why you would. It does no good.

Me? I get frustrated that Roy doesn't call timeouts. I believe that a timeout could save us here and there (probably not as often as some of y'all think though). But I've seen how this ends. We all complain, Roy says in a press conference that he doesn't care that we're all complaining, he goes on to take us to the Final Four, we all love him again and then we'll all be licking our chops to do it again next year. Same routine. You can get on board with it and make your own life easier or you can just bitch and moan until the cows come home.

back to back amazing posts. Well done.

 

[SKYBLUEWITCHEESE]

I'm sure it has worked in the majority of games. I have no problem if Roy wants to "let the team figure it out" in a game against BC or Pitt in the Dean Dome. When we're playing against elite competition and/or are away from home where the atmosphere can be gaining momentum against us - I think a TO can both stop the momentum in the game and calm the crowd down.



A run-stopping TO would almost always be taken after a made basket. So, when a dookie gets a steal and a run out, throws down a breakaway dunk to make the run 15-3 in Cameron Indoor and the roof is about to blow off the place - that's when you'd take the timeout. And you'd still have to inbound the basketball after you get dunked on regardless of whether you take the TO or not.

That's not what he said, nor what I was referring to. He was discussing bad half court sets.

Also, you are now asking for a timeout after a 15-3 run? I thought the whole point of the discussion was that he takes timeouts too late. Now you are advocating taking said late timeouts. This is hysterical.

 

[SKYBLUEWITCHEESE]

Good point. Someone called a timeout after Tatums dunk (officials?) that didn't see to help stop momentum, however.

Exactly. K called it. Didn't help us one bit.

 

[Hark_The_Sound_2010]

That's not what he said, nor what I was referring to. He was discussing bad half court sets.

This thread has been discussing the potential benefits of calling timeouts to stop runs. Calling TO's to set up plays at the end of games is much more debatable. Using TOs when momentum and the crowd are against you and you can't do anything right, is less debatable.

Also, you are now asking for a timeout after a 15-3 run? I thought the whole point of the discussion was that he takes timeouts too late. Now you are advocating taking said late timeouts.

Ideally the TO would be taken before it got to 15-3, but if it hadn't by that point, that would be a great time to take it. The discussion isn't that he takes his timeouts too late, it's that he doesn't take them at all to stop runs - so looks like you've missed the majority of the thread.

This is hysterical.

It certainly is.

 

[Archer2]

As much as I would love for Roy to change, I'm not expecting it to happen. And I can live with that, although I reserve the right to bitch about it from time to time. And BTW, this thread puts to rest the idea that everyone here thinks Roy is perfect and is above criticism, or that anyone who criticized him is treated as a pariah, neither of which is true.

 

[Heelicious]

The use it or lose it today at half with like 10 seconds worked. He does think about these things. Isn't stupid.