Honestly...how much of the second half collapses against the techs are on Dixon

[noelr]

Players or him with tos substitutions etc

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

Players made no three pointers .

Clearly Dixon didn't coach them to make shots they were taking.

 

[Jeffburgh]

End of the day he owns having recruited JRob, Young and Artis, and not having found a way to get them past what they are.

But, the best way of saying it is, he dealt himself a really $hitty hand with these guys in respect to mental toughness.

They just don't have it. But, end of the day, he tied his own hands ...

 

[bobfree]

Players or him with tos substitutions etc

Not on him at all, nothing ever is.

Clearly, he coached them to do all the right things, clearly he motivates them properly, and clearly his substitution patterns are all perfect. This is 100% on the players. The players on the assistant coaches recruited who were only hired by pederson. Jamie Dixon has zero culpability in this team being average and our program stagnating

 

[Delpanther]

Players made no three pointers .

Clearly Dixon didn't coach them to make shots they were taking.

Obviously this team's outside shooting is very erratic and there are games that they haven't been able to throw the ball into the ocean. Having said that though, they looked like a team yesterday that absolutely refused to shoot from the outside particularly with the game on the line the last 6 minutes. If I'm the coach, I'm still telling this team throughout the game that while they shouldn't "settle" for jumpers if the shot's there and you're wide open, take it. You can't play scared and win. They looked like a shell shocked team at times yesterday that was afraid to shoot and I attribute that to a degree to a coaching staff which couldn't communicate to the team the difference between relying on jump shots and taking them when they are clearly there. The best example of this mental confusion yesterday was JR who found himself all alone with nobody within 3 feet of him just beyond the arc and instead of shooting it, he dribbles , takes one step into the arc and fires up a brick-this is either piss poor BB instincts or players reacting to coaching instructions or thinking they are playing as instructed. I'm still on the page that Dixon is a lousy offensive coach.

 

[Delpanther]

Players or him with tos substitutions etc

It's a combination of both. First, is there anything worse at crunch time than having an indecisive, passive PG? The PG is critical at such times and JR just doesn't excel in these situations. With the exception of the Vandy game in these situations we usually came away empty or didn't even get a good shot. The other point is the one I made below. This looked like a team yesterday that at times didn't understand the difference between not relying on the jump shot versus keeping the D off balance and taking the shot when it was there. You can't play scared and win and if I'm the coach I'm telling them if after good ball movement you've got the outside shot , then take it. You can't give players the impression that they're prohibited from shooting from the outside which is what it looked like at times during the second half-witness JR passing up a wide open three, taking two steps inside the arc and throwing up a brick-huh? The offense was a mess yesterday and some of that was a team playing robotic offensive BB because of the script they were trying to follow.

 

[Joe Magarac]

Players made no three pointers .

Clearly Dixon didn't coach them to make shots they were taking.

Why does it always come down to:
Who sucks more, the players or the coaches?
Answer: they both suck.
The question is, who orchestrated this mess?