Pitiful non committal comments. Typical flat press conference more worried about his presentation. He is an unemotional coach with little or no player connections. Justin S was barely involved and was obvious he has lost his confidence due to foolish directions dictated by the average coaching design from staff.
Holtmann is wrong here. You have to guard the man inbounding the ball with 2 seconds to go. He says the man inbounding the ball is 6'9" and you can't affect that pass. That's complete nonsense. Your on-ball defense can be good enough to affect his vision, by getting your hands up, maybe force him to run baseline, and make it a difficult throw.
Quit complaining about your defense all the time when you don't even try to defend an inbounds pass. Besides what good is it to defend 5 on 4, when if you're aggressive and you double somewhere, you're probably going to get called for a foul in a game like that. And, he was worried about a guard getting loose for what, 2 seconds? Giving up a halfcourt prayer heave off the dribble would have been preferable than allowing the ball to be passed up the court that easily. Just stupid.
Holtmann also talks about the first 5 minutes of the second half as being the difference. Wrong again. The Buckeyes had a 9 point lead at the half 44-36. Sure, you want to get off to a better start in the first 5 minutes of the second half, but with 7 minutes to go the Buckeyes had an 11 point lead at 66-55. The game clearly was not decided in the first 5 minutes of the second half.
Really disappointed in the coaching in the final 2 seconds of regulation and the execution against the press. A 5 second call and a shot clock violation, on top of lax ball handling. Learn what a diagonal pass is, move the damn ball quickly, and use more than 2 players to bring the ball up the court. It shouldn't be this damn difficult.
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This coach was good on this press conference..
Pitiful non committal comments. Typical flat press conference more worried about his presentation. He is an unemotional coach with little or no player connections. Justin S was barely involved and was obvious he has lost his confidence due to foolish directions dictated by the average coaching design from staff.
Holtmann is wrong here. You have to guard the man inbounding the ball with 2 seconds to go. He says the man inbounding the ball is 6'9" and you can't affect that pass. That's complete nonsense. Your on-ball defense can be good enough to affect his vision, by getting your hands up, maybe force him to run baseline, and make it a difficult throw.
Quit complaining about your defense all the time when you don't even try to defend an inbounds pass. Besides what good is it to defend 5 on 4, when if you're aggressive and you double somewhere, you're probably going to get called for a foul in a game like that. And, he was worried about a guard getting loose for what, 2 seconds? Giving up a halfcourt prayer heave off the dribble would have been preferable than allowing the ball to be passed up the court that easily. Just stupid.
Holtmann also talks about the first 5 minutes of the second half as being the difference. Wrong again. The Buckeyes had a 9 point lead at the half 44-36. Sure, you want to get off to a better start in the first 5 minutes of the second half, but with 7 minutes to go the Buckeyes had an 11 point lead at 66-55. The game clearly was not decided in the first 5 minutes of the second half.
Really disappointed in the coaching in the final 2 seconds of regulation and the execution against the press. A 5 second call and a shot clock violation, on top of lax ball handling. Learn what a diagonal pass is, move the damn ball quickly, and use more than 2 players to bring the ball up the court. It shouldn't be this damn difficult.