Up ten and rolling, Buzz brings in Jace/Solo for Garcia/CJ. Could have extended the lead but he brings in two guys that can't score, struggle to make good basketball decisions, in favor of two guys that had the Aggies rolling in the second half.

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Did you see how tired Garcia was? He was dying out there. Wade was dying out there. Sounds good to simply say don't take guys out, but if they are exhausted then it's gong to hurt you and they were clearly trying to have as much as they could fresh down the stretch. That elevation was hitting hard.

Also I think in addition to Andy being super winded, that might have been when he also hurt his knee.

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Andy was absolutely gassed at this point. Very rare to ever see our guys with hands on their knees, but Andy did it before getting pulled. He 100% needed a break there.

Andy needed a break, but it was classic buzz over coaching and content to slow the game down once we got a cushion. That mentality lost us the game. Never take the foot off the gas until there's truly not enough time for a comeback. It was so predictable and so painful to watch.

Michigan played 4 guys over 30 minutes and another over 26… their coach knew their season was on the line and played his best guys! Buzz played everyone over 10 minutes and not one person over 26 minutes to make their parents happy… season on the line and everything! Instead of us wearing them down with fresher bodies, they eventually found a rhythm while we were subbing every 3-4 minutes

TCUN have the better coach. Buzz overanalyzes every aspect of the game. He gets stuck in the mud far too often.

Taylor nailed it.

Manny was totally misused this year and Buzz's rotation with Wade in the second half was so bad it almost looked like he wanted to lose. He comes out hot in the 2nd and you immediately sit him while

Our worst two guys in the rotation got their most minutes in over a month. Absurd

Method Man said:

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The 3/4 press saw Jace get burned several times for layups/FTs. Not sure why Jace got so much run when Manny was doing pretty well.

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Because Jace could rebound and Manny can't. Buzz overvalued the rebound stat and didn't stick to what was working.

I would have liked to see Manny more too.

With about 10 minutes left, you could tell most of our guys were gassed. Seems like we never played guys who were playing well. I know it's just something I'm imagining but we stopped going to Payne. Manny didn't seem to get many minutes in the 2nd. Jace actually got more minutes but he was playing better than the others. At least he hit a few 3's in the tournament. Still don't know why he can't hit FTs. Not sure why Hefner got as many minutes as he has throughout the season. He got a lot better this year but still shouldn't be someone who is starting, imo. We had really weird rotations the whole year. The guys on the court at the end of the half in that stretch at the end of the season when we were mostly losing was head scratching. Almost like we didn't really want to score....

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Aston04 said:

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Carter and Hef played too much all year.

Manny has never been used right.. He should be rubbing off screens and attack basket on the catch, space the floor, or post up little guys guarding him. Instead we have him play point, which encourages him to be a ball hog and take bad shots (when he did play)

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1000%. I've never understood why we don't play manny off ball whatsoever. It's painful to watch. He's so athletic, no one would be able to keep up with him off ball. Instead, we just have him play iso ball and he's not a floor manager and once he gets going, there's a 5% chance at best that he'll pass it out.

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Why we never ran a pick and roll with Taylor or Phelps with Payne as well is mind boggling.

Did you just say Manny can't rebound?

Should have rode Wade, Manny, CJ, Garcia and Payne..

Subs, solo, Coleman, Phelps

It was a pretty simple recipe to a W

That sounds like a recipe to give up 90+ a night

IMO, the biggest thing that happened at the end of the year is that Phelps stopped scoring.

JJxvi said:

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That sounds like a recipe to give up 90+ a night

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We gave up 91…and couldn't score as high a clip to keep up

JJxvi said:

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IMO, the biggest thing that happened at the end of the year is that Phelps stopped scoring.

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this. he lost all confidence at the end. he carried us several games in the middle of the season and he relieved a ton of defensive pressure on Wade. but he went through the funk that so many offensive players go through for us and didn't even really try to get out of it the last few games.

What's more painful to watch - MSNBC or Jace shooting free throws?

Wade and Solo were also in foul trouble the whole way through. When you have to keep your best offensive and best defensive players on the bench, the subbing is going to go haywire.