Game Management
I coached a game yesterday which my team came just short of winning. In this league, each team is given 1 time out in the first half and 2 in the second half. The team was down by as many as 13 points in the second half. We put on a full court press to get back in the game and with about 2 minutes left I used 1 of my 2 second half timeouts to draw up a play in an effort to tie the game. My thinking at the time was to get the ball to my hot hand and put pressure on the other team by tying the game. The time out worked as we scored and the game kept going back and forth. With about 50 seconds left I called another timeout as we had possession and were down 2. We set up another play and it worked to tie the game but I was out of timeouts. At the end of the game the other team called a timeout and I decided to continue pressing them. The logic was to continue to go with what has worked. The other team broke the press and got ...