Tech

By ATLSportsTalk.com

January 25, 2007 03:12 PM | Link to this

Completely correct - the team has looked both outmanned and outcoached the last few games. We have one of the most talented teams in the country but can’t put it together. I like Hewitt a lot, but at some point you have to look at the coach.

By JustMe

January 25, 2007 03:37 PM | Link to this

Hard to argue with these points when the world saw Tech play so poorly. We have a lot of individual talent that play ball as individuals. There is no team play - no plays being run at all. No team effort on either side of the court.

I hope that these young players mature quickly and realize that basketball is a team sport and learn to listen to the coach.

By Richard

January 25, 2007 03:44 PM | Link to this

I know everyone is bashing Hewitt and I don’t completely disagree. However, the majority of the blame has to fall on the players. Do you want Hewitt to take shots for them, and make their passes?

At what point do we have to look at the players instead of the coach? I don’t know the answer to that.

By Joe

January 25, 2007 05:49 PM | Link to this

Gee Matt since you have all the answers go apply for Hewitt’s job and bring us a winner. Don’t get upset when some sportswriter who has never coached or played the game knows more than you.

By Navigator

January 25, 2007 06:35 PM | Link to this

I disagree with why the bad things are happening. It goes back to when Bosh was here; that team played just like this one. Hewitt’s problem is he can’t coach high profile players. After Bosh left, the team jelled, and of course we know what happened (a run at the National Championship). I can’t explain why this happens, but it has now happened twice.

By Ramble on!

January 25, 2007 08:45 PM | Link to this

AMEN, BROTHER WINKELJOHN!!!!!!, this is getting old.

By Bob GT78

January 25, 2007 08:51 PM | Link to this

Hewitt is highly regarded by those coahces and commentators who truly know basketball, but he cannot teach every player every minute. I wonder if the breakdown in our play has something to do with ihis staff. They are responsible for teaching Hewitt’s system. Perhaps an assistant isn’t getting the job done. What makes me think that is the team has not really been the same since Dean Keener left right after the Final 4 to be the head coach at James Madison. Also, when Hewitt was at Siena, they were near the top in D1 free throw percentage every year. Same head coach - different assistants. You just can’t underestimate their importance in the overall scheme.

By jjgrogan

January 26, 2007 07:44 AM | Link to this

Every blogger wants predictability. OK, but that’s not reality. The first half of the Memphis game Memphis dominates Tech; the second half Tech dominates Memphis. Years ago an undefeated and # 7 ranked South Carolina team came to Grant Field to play a Ga Tech team that hadn’t defeated a division 1 team…S.C. favored by 28…the final score: Tech 28 S. C. 0… Then there was the Notre Dame-Southern Cal game where N.D. led 28-0 at the half…final score 56-28 with Notre Dame on top. WAKE UP GUYS…sports is not predictable…just like LIFE!!

By Ron

January 26, 2007 08:16 AM | Link to this

I remember thinking the same things about Cremins near the end of his term at Tech. No plan whatsoever…they could not even run an inbound play after a timeout with the game on the line. I thought Hewitt was the answer, but now we are seeing the same thing. HIGH turnovers, which just kill you. Here is a simple concept that worked for me coaching youth ball “We commit to get a shot EVERY time we have the ball. Every single time, we will get a shot.” Think what your point total could be with 20 more shots every game. Just eliminate turnovers and win.

By Ramble ON!

January 26, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this

Bob GT78, maybe the reverse is true. Hewitt owes his success to his former assistants. Just a thought…I mean the team quit on us last year and worse yet, admitted it in the Newspaper (like it wasn’t obvious). It could happen again this year, and that’s unacceptable, don’t you think?

I’ve never seen GT under Hewitt hit a freaking free-throw.

By Broom

January 26, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this

We have no leadership. What we have is a bunch of individuals with no sense of direction, purpose or what it means to work as a team. There seems to be no desire or ability to perform as a unit. You think a Coach K team would ever dare to perform like this?

By OG-T

January 26, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this

Matt, I think you’re right on. I don’t believe Cremins was a master tactician. And I don’t think Hewitt has proved that yet. If fundamentals are the problem, do you think that can be corrected mid-season? Seems like that deficiency cannot be corrected because than game-planning will suffer. Subsequently, we look outplayed and outcoached.

By 91Wreck

January 26, 2007 01:20 PM | Link to this

Ron you said:

“We commit to get a shot EVERY time we have the ball. Every single time, we will get a shot.” Think what your point total could be with 20 more shots every game. Just eliminate turnovers and win.

Great comment. I think you also have to factor in the impact on the other team’s point totals. Many of those turnovers translate into easy points off of fast-break opportunities. Eliminating 20 turnovers a game could easily be a 20 to 30 point swing in our favor.

By BUZZ

January 26, 2007 03:43 PM | Link to this

Tech’s upper classmen are awful. A hero one day & a zero the next.

By Dr. Ming

January 28, 2007 09:46 AM | Link to this

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