RE: Huggins outcoached....again

From: Mike Denman
Date: 01 Feb 2004 - 03:30 PM EST

Now I agree with you. They are too cocky, but it's not because Huggins can't
coach offense...

-----Original Message-----
From: UC BearcatFan [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 4:57 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Huggins outcoached....again

I agree, the defense was not very good today. However,
they usually are good on defense, so if their defense
slips up now and again, I can understand that. It
seems to me that the half-court offense continually
struggles.. And it didn't appear to me that Field had
a wide open three. Maybe he did, but it looked to me
as if there was a guy with a hand right in his face.

Also, this loss has not bothered me as much as usual
because I think this team is extremely talented, but
again, they are way too cocky. In my opinion, this
loss might help them in the long run. I hope they
start thinking that they aren't going to win just on
talent.

--- jon breiner <address@hidden> wrote:

Huggins called a time out with about 1:30 left which
left them with one. He
drew up a great play actually where Field had a wide
open look from 3 and it
clanked off the rim. (That's not the one you are
talking about right? The
one I am referring to came off an out of bounds
set). If it went in would
Huggins have then been a good coach?

I don't completely disagree with your assessment of
Huggins as I think he is
an average offensive coach, but offense did not lose
the game. Defense and
rebounding did.

Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "UC BearcatFan" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Huggins
outcoached....again

83 points is pretty good. But when the game came

down

to the line, Lutz had good set plays that got them
easy looks. What did Huggins do? Drew up a play

that

Nick Williams dribbles to the 3 pt. line and

throws it

to field for a 3. No pick, no nothing, just a pass

and

shoot. I could draw it up better than that. Why

not an

isolation for Max? Why not run bobbit and/or

Field

off double picks? Anything but a simple pass to a

guy

who has a guy in his face and have him jack it up.

--- jon breiner <address@hidden> wrote:

I don't know about out-coached, that is

basically a

matter of opinion, but
when a team scores 83 and loses, it is RARELY

due to

the offense. To me it
seemed rebounding and defense (mostly perimeter)
were the issues today.

And just to show I can say something bad about
Huggins, I do think it is
Huggins fault we lost this game. And it is

related

to the press. UC has
shown the most effort and fire while pressing 94
feet. I realize the teams
early on were not as good, but I think it is a
mistake to not press the way
they did at the start of the year. Early in the
season they tried to trap
the inbounds pass. Now they either back off and
trap (maybe) after they
cross half court or try to trap just before half
court (why even try
that!?!). Because this has been consistently
happening lately, I will
assume it is due to Huggins coaching and not the
players. UC is still
forcing TO's, but the main difference is they

are

not producing as many easy
baskets off of them as they did early in the

year.

I wonder if Kirkland and
White would rebound better if they were putting
forth more effort as a
result of pressing. They certainly could not be
worse rebounders. They
should be embarrassed after watching Eddie

Badsen

today and knowing how
pathetic they are crashing the boards.

Go Marquette!

Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Sloppy" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 3:33 PM
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] Huggins
outcoached....again

I disagree with your comments. Huggins was

not

out coached this game. We

did not rebound the ball with two hands. We

kept

batting the ball out to

other people instead of grabbing the ball.

Charlotte was not strong
enough

to take the ball from us and we were not

getting

into proper position. As

for an Offensive coordinator this game does

not

prove that, we scored 83

points! Charlotte was hitting there three's

and

were not defending them,

some of those that we were defending there

were

still hitting. We need to

do a much better job of defending the three

because that is what will beat

us every time.

Darren Sloppy
address@hidden

-----Original Message-----
From: UC BearcatFan

[mailto:address@hidden

Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 3:18 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: [UC Basketball] Huggins

outcoached....again

I hate to say it, but Huggs got out coached by

Bobby

Lutz and he's gotten out coached in both their

losses.

He needs to hire an offensive coordinator.

I'm

actually starting to think that last years

team

had a

better half court offense than this years

team.

Luckily, this year we have more talent. It's

painful

to see Kareem Johnson and Eric Hicks taking 15

foot

jump shots because their offense has no flow

to it

whatsoever. Charlotte had an open shot after

every

timeout but Cinci did not have any good set

plays

after timeouts.

I know their are a lot of people out their

that

won't

say anything bad about Huggins, but his

half-court

offense year after year is just pathetic.

There

is no

excuse this year because they have talent and
athleticism at every position. They have a

good

inside

scorer and great outside shooters but still a

horrible

half-court offense.

p.s. - losses may be good for this team

because

they

are way too cocky. They need to realize that

they

aren't as good as they think.

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