TwoSaints wrote:

vusportsfan wrote:

Roanoke, can you believe or have you ever seen a coach in the last few seconds of any game look to his bench to ask if they had a timeout?  Versus jumping right in after the make and calling the timeout he should have known about.

What you say about about helter skelter is usually on offense not defense as almost all coaches and as we saw KS even wanted a timeout to setup D..  Our guys ran from inbounds area with 3 guys all the way back inside their 3 line with a late Odom attempt to meet Henderson and got within maybe 10ft allowing open shot from a guy that actually has the range like JJ did and even Lofton did..  so in fact with 3 seconds and we literally had 1 guy that stayed focused but fell down versus having 2 or 3 chasing the ball.  and fouling is taught to occur at the 1 second mark making the rebound putbacks we saw earlier impossible because those all were caught and took 3 to 4 seconds themselves and the Henderson 3 after missed ft by ole miss again couldnt have occurred due to time limits.. 

Just a great 3 point shooting game in the 1st half, then about 8 minutes of moving the ball to get good looks inside and then about 12 minutes of true helter skelter out of control BB allowing them to take over all momentum. 

Gregg Popovich is arguably the best active coach in the world and he does it all the time. He has an assistant whose job is to keep track of timeouts so that he doesn't have to. Honestly, I think Kevin yelled timeout at the refs in plenty of time, it's just that it's really hard to hear at the end of the game. It's just one of those things that happens.

Most coaches rely on an assistant to keep track of timeouts.  If anyone dropped the ball, it was the assistant failing to notify Stallings immediately.  He should never have been forced to ask the bench.  After that, the onus is then on the head coach to call a timeout.  I don't think there is enough space here to note all of the many coaches who have made the wrong decision in the heat of the moment, so I'll just note a recent mistake in a big game.  Roy Williams has been bashed his entire career for the way he manages timeouts, so it's not a surprise to me that Stallings has often faced similar criticism.

As for last night, it looked to me like Stallings tried to get a timeout before the ball was inbounds, but Anthony Jordan would not give it to him.  Would he have been able to get the timeout without the confusion?  Probably.  Would the timeout have changed the outcome of the game?  No idea.

Of course, I'm sure this will necessitate twelve posts from a certain someone (please don't quote his posts in the future) on why Stallings needs to fire his assistants.