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Tiger Cub [12]
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how much is brad to blame?
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Mar 21, 2025, 10:21 AM
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obviously he cant control 1/15 on 3's in the first half or getting out rebounded by a smaller team, but how much is he really to blame? is it more of him not coaching the team correctly or the players just playing horrible?
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TigerNet Elite [69517]
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It is his job to have them ready to play. It's called coaching.
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Mar 21, 2025, 10:23 AM
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This was a veteran team with a HUGE height advantage yet they got killed in the paint.
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1st Rounder [694]
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Re: how much is brad to blame?
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Mar 21, 2025, 10:25 AM
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he is not a volunteer coach people, he gets paid to prepare the team and he failed when it counted most in postseason. we played this way the entire last month of year yet no adjustments were made. He is paid well and deserves the blame! Will Wade showed what a real coach can do. Clemson doesnt have a good coach and yesterday and the ACC tourney proved it without a doubt
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Orange Blooded [2280]
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Re: how much is brad to blame?
Mar 21, 2025, 11:05 AM
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And it's mind-boggling the Administration does not get that and keeps rewarding him with extensions and raises.
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110%er [3675]
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Game Changer [1610]
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Re: how much is brad to blame?
Mar 21, 2025, 3:10 PM
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What adjustments can be made when we were hitting 38% 3s on the season and then went ice cold at the worst time possible. Not counting a huge part of our offensive moving like we used to seeing broke his hand vs SMU. Go Tigers!!
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Tiger Spirit [9394]
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He prepared for his new contract....
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Mar 21, 2025, 10:27 AM
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instead of preparing the team to play.
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Valley Legend [12462]
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Re: He prepared for his new contract....
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Mar 21, 2025, 10:35 AM
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Absolutely! There should have been zero discussions about a new contract until after the tournament.
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Orange Immortal [64690]
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Re: how much is brad to blame?
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Mar 21, 2025, 10:30 AM
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Win or lose, the buck stops with the leader.
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Dynasty Maker [3307]
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Re: how much is brad to blame?
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Mar 21, 2025, 10:40 AM
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Do come out that flat in the first half is 100000% on the coach. He is the one who gets the team ready. They were not. They made adjustments and played better the 2nd half. But the 1st half horror is on the coach. He had no answer to how to get the team in rhythm.
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Re: how much is brad to blame?
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Mar 21, 2025, 11:16 AM
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Brownell deserves some blame for that first half, obviously. But why do our seniors, our 5th, and 6th year players, need to be motivated to do anything? Chase Hunter has been here 6 years and scored ZERO points in the first half... that's pathetic. Lakhin and Schieffelin with 8 years experience between them can't hang onto the ball in the paint and with a clear size advantage they still were not able to muscle the ball inside and score in the paint? That's pathetic.
Brownell needed to do a better job of scheming things open and trying to get points in a different way. When you see that the threes aren't dropping you have to scheme something else open, but like these are 22, 23, 24 year old guys playing in their last NCAA Tournament. Why the #### does the coach need to go out there and give some rah rah speech to motivate them to get up and get ready to play?
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Redshirt [97]
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Re: how much is brad to blame?
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Mar 21, 2025, 12:36 PM
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McNeese picked up four fouls in the first four minutes in the first half. Instead of attacking the rim and creating more fouls we bricked 16 threes. Only 2 fouls rest of the half. Thats in Brownell to coach them to stop jacking and drive.
Down 18 at half. The very last game you played the team dug a huge hole and made a great comeback by pressing. Brownell waited until 8 mins left in this game to press. Should have started at halftime.
2 of many huge coaching mistakes.
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Legend [6615]
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No, that team was not motivated to play
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Mar 21, 2025, 10:54 AM
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it looked like they were in quicksand. They underestimated the opponent, and that is 1,000% on the coach.
I think BB choked, which is not the first time. He folds under pressure.
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Orange Elite [5162]
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Re: how much is brad to blame?
Mar 21, 2025, 10:57 AM
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Brownell can just recycle his quotes...
Brownell on blowout lose to BC in 2024 ACCT (yet another one-and-done): "Thoroughly outplayed us...We just weren't quite ready. Ultimately that's on me. I don't really understand it. I thought we were. But we looked a half step slow and lacked urgency, and then I thought when we got behind, that's probably not great for us. We haven't been behind a lot this year, and we probably panicked a little bit, and we had a hard time."
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Orange Elite [5162]
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Re: how much is brad to blame?
Mar 21, 2025, 11:06 AM
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In truth, it's playing teams from "M.... State" that CBB can't get over...Morehead St., McNeese St.
Murray St or Montanna St. or Missouri St. or Morgan St. might be bad, but God help us if we have to play power-5 teams like Michigan St. or Mississippi St.
I'm not sure if Middle Tennessee St. or SE Missouri St. or Mississippi Valley St. fits?
P.S. Maybe we start with Mississippi Valley St.? They're ranked dead last (364) in NET.
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Re: how much is brad to blame?
Mar 21, 2025, 11:07 AM
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Zero
I’ve come to learn that basketball teams shouldn’t have coaches because they really don’t do anything.
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Ring of Honor [21485]
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Re: how much is brad to blame?
Mar 21, 2025, 11:09 AM
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Most of it.
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Game Changer [1880]
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If it was just a bad half, then no blame. But ....
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Mar 21, 2025, 11:10 AM
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We have been playing very uninspired ball for the past 3 weeks. Bad shooting, very little hustle (until time was running out late in the game), and a refusal to alter the game plan. So yes, the blame goes to coach. The players feed off their coach's enthusiasm. Obviously our coach has none.
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National Champion [8073]
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The entire program was to blame for that effort yesterday
Mar 21, 2025, 12:49 PM
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no matter how well the 2nd half went, that 1st half was inexcusable from a team that had the best regular season in Clemson basketball history.
The coach is to blame for not having the team focused and prepared for McNeese State. They simply were not ready to play.
The players are to blame for not being prepared and focused considering the VETERAN leadership that should account for a lot...but it meant nothing at all as the opponent simply went at and through the Tigers.
10 turnovers in a half. 5 field goals made in a half. 13 points in 20 minutes.
To only lose by 2 points might not sound bad, but it was not only bad, it was atrocious basketball. A lot of blame to go around but in the end Clemson basketball will most likely come back to the field and simply have a program that exist as it always has....just another team with 0 championships within the league and that is not likely to change as this 2024/2025 team had the best chance of all time and did not get it done.
All that said, I am still a Clemson Tiger fan and will always care. Yesterday was a reminder of exactly what Clemson basketball really is all about, and that is not competing when any end of season tournaments come around.
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Rival Killer [2747]
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Re: how much is brad to blame?
Mar 21, 2025, 1:12 PM
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Major. He can control whether shooting t6hose threes are the best way to approach the game. He controls the fundamentals of how we rebound. And he controls how we approach the game, mind set. He failed at all of those and does often.
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Game Changer [1721]
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He didnt have any more to do with that loss
Mar 21, 2025, 1:16 PM
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than he did the Elite 8 run…
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All-In [10812]
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When the boat sinks
Mar 21, 2025, 1:18 PM
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it isnt the fault of the guy fishing off the back
The problem here is Brad is being asked to captain a boat that is too big for him so at some point the blame goes to his boss that lets him keep the keys.
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National Champion [7973]
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Re: how much is brad to blame?
Mar 21, 2025, 1:58 PM
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All of it…..there is a pattern here.
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110%er [3665]
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Mar 21, 2025, 1:59 PM
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Why were we shooting 3’s when our smallest guys were as tall as their biggest guys?? Shef and Lahkin should have been pounding these guys.
Of course this is on Brad. We have 15 years of data to tell us this is on Brad.
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National Champion [7736]
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I am not a Brad hater
Mar 21, 2025, 2:03 PM
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But he da coach!
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Orange Blooded [2257]
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Re: how much is brad to blame?
Mar 21, 2025, 3:35 PM
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Not much. They played poorly and got beat. I judge Coaches on their season not on individual games.
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