Tubbys timeouts

[Catdaddy24]

Theres one thing that has bothered me about OTS during a game. Your probably thinking here we go again with the Bashing. But honestly ever since Ive been going to games it would make me so mad to watch him during time outs. During about 90% of the timeouts while the opposing teams coach is over there coaching his butt off, OTS is in a huddle with his assistants during almost half the timeouts. This drives me crazy. Ive always thought this made him look so incompetant since you have to discuss everything first before you coach it. Man you should know what your going to coach before a time out is ever called. Oh well, theres my Tubby complaint for the day.

[SouthBeachWildcat]

I like it.........it gives the players time to think through things on there own as well

[Catdaddy24]

I just dont see it. I think during crucial moments of the game you as a coach need to show the team more passion than that. Yeah on tv you sometimes get to see Tubbys eyes about half pop out but thats after the coaches congregate. You see these teams out there during a timeout and the coach meets them as soon as they are off the court. The coach has a fire within his coaching and the team feeds of this sort of thing. I just dont think the cats do that. And I think this is one of the reasons. I very seldom see the cats feed off of Tubbys time outs.

[Stretch]

It is wrong to generalize about Tubby's timeout methods. When he calls one due to bad play by the Cats, it is all about Tubby and the players--there is no huddle with the assistants. On the other hand, when he calls one to set up a play at the end of the half, he huddles with the assistants to formulate the best plan and then he takes the plan to the players when they have had time to catch their breaths and are calmed down enough to listen carefully.

I think it all works quite well. Until maybe this season, after a timeout to set up a play we got a great shot about 90% of the time.

[Craig the Blueheart]

Stretch wrote: It is wrong to generalize about Tubby's timeout methods. When he calls one due to bad play by the Cats, it is all about Tubby and the players--there is no huddle with the assistants. On the other hand, when he calls one to set up a play at the end of the half, he huddles with the assistants to formulate the best plan and then he takes the plan to the players when they have had time to catch their breaths and are calmed down enough to listen carefully.

I think it all works quite well. Until maybe this season, after a timeout to set up a play we got a great shot about 90% of the time.

I agree. I have no problems with the timeout methodologies.

[Will Lavender]

They do it in the NBA quite a bit.

I have no problem with it. I've played basketball. You don't want the coaches swarming around you at every time-out.

And really, the television time-outs now are so bloody long that Tubby could go up in the stands and have a romantic dinner with Donna, return to the court and huddle with his assistants, and then talk to the players and the John Cougar commercial would still be on.

[ukwebfan]

Right! I've never seen a coach do that before.
:rolleyes:

[Craig the Blueheart]

Will Lavender wrote: They do it in the NBA quite a bit.

I have no problem with it. I've played basketball. You don't want the coaches swarming around you at every time-out.

And really, the television time-outs now are so bloody long that Tubby could go up in the stands and have a romantic dinner with Donna, return to the court and huddle with his assistants, and then talk to the players and the John Cougar commercial would still be on.

halarious...