Tinkle's Pep Talk

[grizd]

He must be the most uninsperational coach in basketball. How can this team routinely come out flat? If he wants to be the nice guy he better replace an assistant with someone the team will respect and someone who will get the team fired up. Also, the players (maybe Rundles now that he isn't going to be the new guy) need to have someone step up and get in faces when the team is underperforming.

IMHO, the fact that they are never out of the game indicates the Griz have much more raw talent than their foes. This ends a VERY disappointing season and one that should have extended the coming out party Krysko started.

 

[Montana Gym Rat]

I don't think that is fair.

The team did play with intensity after they got down by double digits. Once they were back in the game, the intensity level went away.

The players decided when they wanted to play hard. I don't think Tinkle, or anybody for that matter, can overcome that attitude.

It's especially difficult when so many times this team has turned it on like a switch when they needed to.

 

[grizd]

MGR, you made my case. When they play with urgency they are much better than the opposition. When they are complacent they fall behind. IMO, it is the coaches responsibility to make sure they don't get complacent. See the Lady Griz...do you think one of those ladies gets complacent...ever. If they do Rob yanks them quicker than they can say complacent. That's why they can win by double digits and don't play down to the talent on the floor with them. Conversely, almost every men's game this year was close.

 

[shahan]

The ladies team does not have the attitude's that the men's team does. How can you take one guy out for getting complacent, when you just took 3 out for pouting, getting technical's, or not playing defense? This is college basketball. What this team lacks is a true leader. Criswell brought that leadership day in and day out. Matthews while not always matching Criswell, was not far behind. That made things easier for the coach. Coaches can yell and scream all they want, but in the end its the players that have to want to play hard.

 

[IamYou]

I played for so many different coaches in high school in an extremely competitve area. Intensity out of the gate was never, never contingent on a coaches pep talk. It was on the team leaders to get everyone going in warm ups and at tip off. If the team was going through the motions lackadaisically, then it was a couple guy's responsiblity to get everyone fired up.

My sophmore year on Varsity we had a hell of a leader who could tell exactly who needed to wake up and who was ready to go. He'd clap, yell, jump up and down and we always came out destroying teams. We had a pretty dang good team that year.

Junior year, we were just as talented but lacked that leader and had an awful year. Getting your ass kicked to start the game is not the sole problem with not having a solid leader, but a big one nonetheless.

And I think that was the ultimate down fall on this team. Very little leadership. They just didn't have a guy who could do it. You need 4 requirements to be a decent one:
1) Upperclassman/Experienced - has the ability to boss people around
2) Vocal - has to be a communicator
3) Highly skilled - bluntly put, you have to be better than the average player on the team
4) Coach needs to put faith in you

We didn't have one, not one guy on this team that met those 4 requirements. Maybe Tinkle didn't push hard enough for 1-2 leaders to emerge, but i don't know. Most of the time this kind of thing is out of the coaches hand with the exception of #4, but I think Tinkle is the type of guy who would put faith in his players.

 

[grizpack]

A former player said exactly the same thing about this team. He said the problem is there is no floor leader. The upperclassmen are not good leaders, and Hasquet and Rundles are still young, and neither was ready to step into that role.