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(01-19-2021 08:52 PM)Muskrat Wrote:  Charlie Coles was a great coach and a great guy, but all coaches sometimes make bad decisions. It goes with the territory. Using up the shot clock late in the game when you have a decent enough lead is great in theory. But too often I've seen teams turn it over (30 seconds is a long time to be passing the ball around) or, more often, not getting a good shot in the end. I believe you should keep doing what got you the lead in the first place, within reason.

While Coles did milk the clock considerably, the true master of this was actually Dambrot. If he had a 2-possession lead at the 4-min timeout he'd milk the clock to the end before he shot it. If Akron missed and got the o-rebound, he'd milk the clock again. Say he scored this time and a 5-point lead was now eight.

Get a stop at the other end (now clock probably under 2-min) and get one more score, the game was over. You could tell this was practiced because he did it too many times.

Sendy does this, too, especially when he had a good scorer (Hall, ADR) on the block. ... The key is having patient guards that can attack the basket (Zabo/Booman) and make FTs.