Hewitt rips players in postgame presser

[Vespidie]

Originally Posted by GT1992

Do we ever set a pick on an inbounds play to get a better matchup?

SHouldn't have to because our coach recruits "long, athletic bodies".

Who needs basketball 101, when your team's "athleti****" should be the end all cure all....at least something as simple as inbounding a basketball.

[GT1992]

Originally Posted by Vespidie

SHouldn't have to because our coach recruits "long, athletic bodies".

Who needs basketball 101, when your team's "athleti****" should be the end all cure all....at least something as simple as inbounding a basketball.

I watched one of the plays where all the long athletic bodies ran to the same place. The inbounds play failed on so many levels. The shortest guy on the team took the ball out, the players randomly moved around, no picks, no posting up, passing the ball back under the basket, etc. It was plain ugly. Of course, Hewitt told the press that he discouraged the lob, which would have been a much better play.

[cincytechie]

what the heck?! are people implying that these boys don't play physically tough? that's absurb. look at our defense (save the duke game). look at gani and bell.

what we don't have is mental toughness. we haven't had that since the days of BJ, Marvin, and Bynum. mental toughness comes from confidence through knowing what to do on the basketball court. we currently play tough, but we have no clue how to execute simple fundamentals. just look at favors (absolutely no difference in his play from the beginning of the year to now; still looks lost; still does not know his role except for the occasional offensive rebound and putback). you can motivate your players and call them out all you want, but if the simple fundamentals aren't taught it's all for naught. nothing will change. hewitt can't coach.

the mark of a poorly coached team is inconsistency. tech will have another quality win this season (at Wake or at Clemson), and people will be like, "see, hewitt lit a fire under their arses. what a good coach!" a talented team without proper coaching will still have games in which they click.

[BuzzLaw]

Well, obviously his ripping of the players after the Duke loss helped.

PH needs to step down. I don't see any confidence in him from the fan base or his players, and I really don't see any from the Athletic Dept at this point. Its clear he needs to go... now.

[gth816f]

Originally Posted by BuzzLaw

Well, obviously his ripping of the players after the Duke loss helped.

PH needs to step down. I don't see any confidence in him from the fan base or his players, and I really don't see any from the Athletic Dept at this point. Its clear he needs to go... now.

Would you step down if you knew you had a $7.5 million dollar buyout?

[Vespidie]

Originally Posted by cincytechie

what we don't have is mental toughness.

the mark of a poorly coached team is inconsistency. tech will have another quality win this season (at Wake or at Clemson), and people will be like, "see, hewitt lit a fire under their arses. what a good coach!" a talented team without proper coaching will still have games in which they click.

DING, DING, DING.......We have a winner.

[TipoftheSpear]

Just because you demolish someone while fouling doesn't mean your playing tough defense.

I've seen flashes of tough defense this year and many others. We're undisciplined, that's why it's not consistent. It comes from coaching. We're obviously not having tough practices where the repetition from practicing tough carries over to playing tough during the game.

We're not smart on offense, never have been, and never will be with him at the helm.

The players don't respect him. The refs absolutely don't respect him and opposing coaches drool whenever we're on their schedule or in their NCAAT bracket because they know they've got a better than average chance of beating us regardless of the talent gap.

If Drad ever starts a fund to buy him out, I'm chipping in. Life's too short to go long periods of time sucking ass.

[midatlantech]

I have coached a little basketball in my time. Hewitt's problem on inbounding is that he's ALWAYS asking his players to inbound on the 2nd or 3rd level. That is, we don't look for a simple inbounds pass.

I read somewhere to teach your kids to get open one on two to prove to them that they can get open against a full court man press. So I did and it works. It's simple basketball. It just isn't that tough.

But Hewitt is overcoaching in my opinion. Go watch the game. We have ball handling guys wide open and we ignore them because we're trained to "have to do more" to get open.

[Essobee]

I wonder if there is much team chemistry. Cremins' final four team had both great talent and great chemistry. The Lethal Weapon 3 were as close knit as they come.