Glad we won. Always a smug-sooth to beat UGa.
Guess I suffer hyperage when I watch our inabilities maintained threw-out a game, threw-out the season.??
**With "pound-it-in-coaching" practice after practice, I think Hayes could be a double-figure scorer. By now, via coaching insistence, certain sets of play executions should be breaking down opposing teams. Most missed 3s by Locke or Allen are automatic misses due to not squaring up, due to rushing with inadequate 'calm'. When too many at-the-rim opportunities repeatedly aren't given enough "umph" or clang roll off, then those events are not being "pounded home" in rehearsals, in practices, practices. {late in the game they do often play like their legs are too tired?}
**From pre-season, coaching-wise, White & his "coach-crew" should have been all in on developing the inside game = "forcing" all 6'8",6'9" bigs to drub-thump the ball off the backboard as first choice, or pinch-plunge it down the rim's gullet, 2nd choice. {of course that involves teaching, re-minding them how to fiercely grip the ball such that only a foul could dislodge it.} Basketball is a "hands-on" project that every practice must project. Suffuse your charges such that tip-off lights that fuse.
We're good on defense because our opponent forces our action/thoughts. Only insistent incessant practice forces up our thought/actions for offensive attack; that attack is lacking, slacking when all stand around that arc-line, stalled, where lazy passing is invited and high-bounce dribbling and stationary Gators allows defenders to "lock-in" their readiness. Is that generated & maintained by lax practice coaching??
Ultimately, good teams are made in good practices. In successful practices, the coaching hammers in detailed executions repeated unto 85% success-rate. Players leave practices feeling upbeat, charged for higher performances, feeling better coordinated in teamwork = confidence inculcated. Then, fans see the consistency played out on the court. For every good basketball coach, it's all a methodical process that no solid HC is confused over. ??
To blame your players is to admit to yourself that you cannot coach them up. What mindset does that public blame instill into your players' haunting thoughts. I'm fine with White, if he himself improves.