Please lend Pike your crystal ball then. Would it have gotten to 30-3 if he didn’t sub there? And what if they simply needed rest ? They were obviously playing very good D up to that point.
Correct. We likely would have been in excellent shape if we made free throws and cliff doesn’t go out then.
You ride the momentum. As I stated; you don’t know how long the run lasts but you leave in the catalysts to that run until it dries up. What is so hard to understand? These are young men in peak condition and it was the first 5 minutes of the game. Clearly what happened last night was evidence that you don’t remove the key players when they are hot; you just caused the change of events on the court that the opposing coach could only wish would happen. It was a self inflicted wound. Bad coaching by Pike in that moment
It’s not an illusion, it’s intangible and very real.
Its not an illusion; its an emotion. And emotion is very real. Same principal applies in the stock market. RIde the emotion of the market -its not always rational, but its real.
The emotion is real but the performance effect is mostly an illusion. Especially for like small intra-game runs. Longer slumps/streaks will have more of an effect but still way less than most people think.
But pitching has gone even more that way, hasn't it? And virtually everything.. people used to way underestimate fatigue effects.
My understanding, all anecdotal, was that it was swinging back towards the old model in pitching. Maybe I'm wrong.
Where do you think I am predicting? You're creating a self validating argument that has not even been offered to you by anyone but yourself.
Michigan has to rest its starters too. Why would you take ours out early while their guys have plenty left in the tank?. The onus is on them to catch up, not on us to make it fair for them. Sit Cliff when Hunter sits. Pike screwed up big time.
Your advice is to "ride the emotion of the market". This implies you think you have a strategy (riding the emotion) that beats the market. Otherwise, pretty dumb advice?
That foul was OK. It was exactly what he needed to do to Dickinson to try and wear him down. Woolf is expendable; so use his fouls. Reiber was getting destroyed and offering zero resistance. I wish Woolf used all 5 fouls on Dickinson.
Did I say that? No one always beats the market. You do capitalize on moments however. You seem like you have an inability to think beyond an algorithmic approach.
And it got us a turnover after the next inbounds. It was exactly what was needed getting Hunter out of the comfort zone he was in.
Relating it to being a player.
That was a different type of foul..he was trying to body Dickinson and legit blocked him twice as if he was a Tight End blocking a DL..clearly a foul but at the same time holding his ground trying to send a message
Yeah these are kids and can def play longer than usual though it is grueling on the body out there. That said…we give cliff a rest and the man has to come out inadvertently later when he gets hit in the face…sucks
Yes exactly. We had just folded Caleb into the mix. That was fine. Pike could’ve done one more substitution at that point. Instead he took out everyone all at once except Caleb and Hyatt. Caleb hadn’t practiced in 5 days. Not the time to have him out there running things. It would’ve been fine to only send Simpson in for Paul for a few minutes. Let Cam, Simpson and Caleb navigate the offense with Cliff on the court in the middle. Instead we relied on just Simpson and Caleb with Hyatt and 2 bench forwards. It was really bad timing for that line up in my opinion.
hot? was Cliff hot ? or did he miss the 4 consecutive missed FTs before coming out in that stretch ?
He was rock solid on defense. Michigan had 3 points. It wasn’t like good shots were just rimming out. It all changed when Dean came in for him. 2 quick easy baskets for Dickerson got the Michigan offense going.
