Comments on: Coaching… Call the Timeout or Just Let Them Play?

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:41:18 +0000

Great post, I saw this game and was thinking about the same issues.

By: bschofield

bschofield — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:07:12 +0000

OK OK. You guys are all right. My fault. Bo didn’t have a timeout. Would he have used it if he did?

By: mike

mike — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:09:04 +0000

I believe Wisconsin was out of time outs so there was no way to call one. If I remember right the final TO came with about 12 seconds left to go. Unless you want a Chris Webber TO to finish the game. I didn’t recall if Illinois took TO’s to the locker room. If so blame Coach Weber. Sure was disappointing to lose the Big 10/ACC challenge that way.

Not only was the Illinois game ending in a strange way but only moments later when the women from UW Milwaukee were taking Wisconsin to double OT the same thing happened. UWM races up court and doesn’t get a shot off. Who would have thought this same play would occur twice in 30 minutes.

It’s interesting to watch college hoops today and see the coaches draw up all these plays at the end of the game. I wish we could find out how many are run the way they want them run.

the real issue it seems to me you have to have a bunch of plays that the team has practiced and then call for one or two and see it play out. Can you really create something special each time your in that situation unless you have a team blessed with a pro type player that is heads and shoulders above everybody else on the court.

There is a reason we play the games with real players and not video games.

By: Mando

Mando — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:54:46 +0000

The reason Bo didn’t call time out at the end of the game, according to the announcers, was because they were out of time outs, and that would have ended in a technical foul.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:36:48 +0000

Wisconsin was out of timeouts – so there was no decision to make. Someone has probably already indicated this.

By: John Nagle

John Nagle — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:27:55 +0000

Response to Coaching…Call the timeout or just let them play?

Not calling a timeout by Wisconsin was an easy call. Wisconsin didn’t have any timeouts!!!!!!!

By: Elliott

Elliott — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:26:00 +0000

You should realize that Bo has already set up a play (in practice last month) and doesn’t need to call timeouts in these situations. It’s one of the reasons Bucky wins so many close games.

You may also notice that Bo is one of very few coaches who NEVER uses a whiteboard on the bench. He doesn’t believe in confusing people with last minute plays — all the plays they need for every situation they’ve already learned in practice.

You’re article is a great example of how Bruce Weber prepares his teams for play…. he doesn’t.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:22:15 +0000

If I recall correctly, the Badgers were out of timeouts at the end of their game with Virginia Tech. If I’m correct, they couldn’t have chosen to call a timeout.