1) He calls/dosen't call timeouts at the oddest times. Everyone watching hump/home can see/feel a run coming and he does nothing. We get on one and he calls a timeout to kill it.
<span style="font-weight: bold;">- I think this is a valid criticism of Stansbury. He has never been good at using timeouts to stop a run. He tends to hold them until the end of the game and then just use them to give his players a breather.</span>
2) The substitution pattern. The times at which he puts people in and takes people out.
<span style="font-weight: bold;">- Two things here: 1) A lot goes on during a game that people in the stands or watching on TV don't know about. People hit knee to knee, get poked in the eye, maybe the ankle you sprained in practice is bothering you, a compression sleeve is rubbing, hands are too dry, pissed off at yourself for a mistake. You name it, I've seen it happen. 2) You have to let these guys get used to playing together. You can't stick to a rigid rotation unless you are deep in the bench. A good portion of playing basketball at a high level is about knowing what your teammates are going to do without having to see them do it. The only way you get that is by playing together.</span>
3) The playing rotation. Do they just call downs on the bench and that's who goes in next?
<span style="font-weight: bold;">- See #2</span>
4) A player can be on fire and he doesn't switch matchups until they guy has 23.
<span style="font-weight: bold;">- Do you take your best defender off the second highest scorer in the nation to shut down a freshman? Yeah, the guy was on fire but you gotta think the reason he was getting the ball so much is because we were shutting down Arkansas best player. Arkansas made some incredible shots that game. That and their ability to get and hold position was damned impressive. They gave us the best they had and we played a mediocre game. Guess what? We still won.</span>
5) No teams ever have the killer mentality. They play to the level of the competition and never go out looking to just give a beat down.
<span style="font-weight: bold;">- It's a long season. If you really believe this you are a @!%$*%+ idiot. We aren't going to play like world beaters every single night. If you save your worst games for your worst opponents and win, you are doing something right.</span>
Edit: Forgot one: 6) Why take the ball out of Bost's hands most of the 2nd half, and let Barry bring it up. I thought Bost stepping on the gas during transition was our new bread and butter.
<span style="font-weight: bold;">- First off, Rick didn't take it out of Bost's hands, Arkansas defense did. They were blanketing him. It was obvious their game plan was to not let Bost beat them. Good plan. They played extended defense on Bost the entire game and when we put them in position to make a defensive choice they always chose to stay with Bost. They flat out covered his ***. But if Rick were going to take it out of his hands it could have something to do with the fact that he was shooting somewhere around 30% from the free throw line tonight. It was an off night for him but you can't have him holding the ball in a sure foul situation.</span> <br style="font-weight: bold;">
Most of the douchbags on this board (and you DA are the biggest douchebag of all) haven't so much as coached a pee-wee team. These aren't robots out there doing what Stansbury programs them to do. I can't tell you how many times I looked at a kid and asked, "what the hell was that?" and half the time even he doesn't know why he did it. There are so many stupid little things that come up and every night it's a fluid situation. At then end of the day a win is a win. I don't give a crap if it's by 2 or 20.
