Coach Orr Presser--Stay the Course Edition

Coach Orr held a presser earlier today.  You can head over to bgsufalcons.com and check it out if you are so inclined.  As usual, there were not many highlights....

The most important thing was that the media asked if the team had gotten to the point "where you might try to switch things up."

This is a really good question.  We've all heard the old saying that insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results...and I think under the surface in the question was whether we aren't kind of stuck with this approach and these results.  I don't know that we have anything different that would be better...the question was in a context related to Jehvon Clarke, and you might think that Craig Sealey could get some more minutes. Might not be better.  But, it might. And what we are doing right now seems to have played itself out.

Anyway, Coach essentially said no, that we might try things on a game to game basis, but he is not prepared to try a different approach on a bigger picture basis.

He talked about the last possession against EMU.  He said that Thomas was supposed to come off a
"pin down" and when Coach watched the film, he said it was "hard to see" where it went wrong.  He said that Clarke picked his dribble up, and then when Calhoun had the ball, he still had time but jacked up a poor shot.  Most importantly, we didn't need a 3.  There was still time to get a 2 and then maybe EMU splits a pair of free throws and now you only need a 2 to tie.

Coach was asked if there was anything that could be done to improve in the last seconds.  He said we already practice "situational" basketball and he probably should try to save a timeout.

Which is the kind of thing I don't understand.  If you are already practicing it and yet we don't execute, then you have to try something else.  I am sure our guys are working very hard.  I just don't sense that we are getting any better, and I'd think you'd be concerned about that.