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[quote author=garvin link=topic=14610.msg156583#msg156583 date=1455576565]

Why on why did we not pressure them bringing up the ball at the end of OT?  We let them charge up and get a great shot.

I was screaming this so hard during the play my girlfriend thought I was having a stroke. Impeding the ball even a tiny bit -- a half-second or even less -- would have forced Arizona to put up a much less desirable shot.

And I don't understand why a player about to lose a five-second count on an inbounds play doesn't just toss the ball up in the air and let everybody on the court fight it out. Worst-case scenario, you lose the ball...which is going to happen anyway.

Well, of course, it was all Johnny Dawkins' fault...or, at least, it would have been if this had been the men's team, right?
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Well, except that Tara is taking her team to the NCAA tournament and has done so every single year since 1987.  A "down year" means she has a top-25 team rather than a top-10 or top-5 team.  Name one time when Dawkins guided his team to a better record or outcome than the women's team. 

Let me put it this way; the high water mark for the men's basketball team under Dawkins was making the sweet sixteen.  The last time that Tara failed to take the women's team to the sweet sixteen or beyond was 2003, when Dawkins was still an assistant on the Duke staff.

BC

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[quote author=garvin link=topic=14610.msg156583#msg156583 date=1455576565]

Why on why did we not pressure them bringing up the ball at the end of OT?  We let them charge up and get a great shot.

I was screaming this so hard during the play my girlfriend thought I was having a stroke. Impeding the ball even a tiny bit -- a half-second or even less -- would have forced Arizona to put up a much less desirable shot.

And I don't understand why a player about to lose a five-second count on an inbounds play doesn't just toss the ball up in the air and let everybody on the court fight it out. Worst-case scenario, you lose the ball...which is going to happen anyway.

Well, of course, it was all Johnny Dawkins' fault...or, at least, it would have been if this had been the men's team, right?
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Well, except that Tara is taking her team to the NCAA tournament and has done so every single year since 1987.  A "down year" means she has a top-25 team rather than a top-10 or top-5 team.  Name one time when Dawkins guided his team to a better record or outcome than the women's team. 

Let me put it this way; the high water mark for the men's basketball team under Dawkins was making the sweet sixteen.  The last time that Tara failed to take the women's team to the sweet sixteen or beyond was 2003, when Dawkins was still an assistant on the Duke staff.

BC

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[quote author=76lsjumb link=topic=14610.msg156595#msg156595 date=1455585188]
[quote author=garvin link=topic=14610.msg156583#msg156583 date=1455576565]

Why on why did we not pressure them bringing up the ball at the end of OT?  We let them charge up and get a great shot.

I was screaming this so hard during the play my girlfriend thought I was having a stroke. Impeding the ball even a tiny bit -- a half-second or even less -- would have forced Arizona to put up a much less desirable shot.

And I don't understand why a player about to lose a five-second count on an inbounds play doesn't just toss the ball up in the air and let everybody on the court fight it out. Worst-case scenario, you lose the ball...which is going to happen anyway.

Well, of course, it was all Johnny Dawkins' fault...or, at least, it would have been if this had been the men's team, right?
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Well, except that Tara is taking her team to the NCAA tournament and has done so every single year since 1987.  A "down year" means she has a top-25 team rather than a top-10 or top-5 team.  Name one time when Dawkins guided his team to a better record or outcome than the women's team. 

Let me put it this way; the high water mark for the men's basketball team under Dawkins was making the sweet sixteen.  The last time that Tara failed to take the women's team to the sweet sixteen or beyond was 2003, when Dawkins was still an assistant on the Duke staff.

BC
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I agree with all of this, except I think we lost to Florida State in the second round (and at home) in 2007. If memory serves, that motivated us all the way to the national championship game the following year in 2008, the matchup of CandICE vs. CandACE.

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[quote author=76lsjumb link=topic=14610.msg156595#msg156595 date=1455585188]
[quote author=garvin link=topic=14610.msg156583#msg156583 date=1455576565]

Why on why did we not pressure them bringing up the ball at the end of OT?  We let them charge up and get a great shot.

I was screaming this so hard during the play my girlfriend thought I was having a stroke. Impeding the ball even a tiny bit -- a half-second or even less -- would have forced Arizona to put up a much less desirable shot.

And I don't understand why a player about to lose a five-second count on an inbounds play doesn't just toss the ball up in the air and let everybody on the court fight it out. Worst-case scenario, you lose the ball...which is going to happen anyway.

Well, of course, it was all Johnny Dawkins' fault...or, at least, it would have been if this had been the men's team, right?
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Well, except that Tara is taking her team to the NCAA tournament and has done so every single year since 1987.  A "down year" means she has a top-25 team rather than a top-10 or top-5 team.  Name one time when Dawkins guided his team to a better record or outcome than the women's team. 

Let me put it this way; the high water mark for the men's basketball team under Dawkins was making the sweet sixteen.  The last time that Tara failed to take the women's team to the sweet sixteen or beyond was 2003, when Dawkins was still an assistant on the Duke staff.

BC
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I agree with all of this, except I think we lost to Florida State in the second round (and at home) in 2007. If memory serves, that motivated us all the way to the national championship game the following year in 2008, the matchup of CandICE vs. CandACE.