In Reply to: I Would Love To Trade Head Coaches posted by alleyhoops on March 09, 2025 at 15:51:29
to winning the B1G tournament and yet played her 76 out of 80 minutes in the first two games against Indiana and Michigan. Similarly, Iriafen played 72 of 80 minutes in the first two games.
Those two players are responsible for 53% of the teams' 81 points per game. Burning them out was guaranteed to have negative consequences.
And when their long range shots stared clanking due to leaden legs, did Gottlieb implore her players to go inside? If she did, they didn't seem to be listening.
When UCLA had 3 starters on the court with 4 fouls, did she have her players attack their opponents by driving to the hoop? Hardly.
Those seem like major strategic and tactical errors that cost the team the game, and the championship; and not something I'd want to see coming from the coach of the Bruins.
But then, I'm a UCLA fan.