I want to bring up a subject that has been kind of bothering me lately, and was exemplified even more last night. I can't overstate how thrilled I am with this team and how much fun they are to watch. Coach K is doing a masterful job, one of the finest coaching jobs I have ever seen.
That said, it seems like we play quite poorly coming out of timeouts. At least twice last night Gary called a timeout, and his team scored immediately and easily on the ensuing possession. Here is last night's
game log. Example #1: Gary calls time at 16:43 of the first half; Maryland scores 10 seconds later on an Osby layup. Example #2: Gary calls time at 4:12 of the first half; Maryland scores 9 seconds later on an Osby layup. Example #3: Gary calls time at 19:04 of the second half; Maryland scores 17 seconds later on a Vasquez layup.
Contrast this to Duke. At 1:35 of the first half, K calls time; 7 seconds later, Scheyer misses a 3. At 12:50 of the second half, with Maryland on a big run, K calls time; Duke turns it over immediately. At 7:50 of the second half, after Maryland cut it to 2, Duke called another timeout; Paulus missed an off balance (falling to the left) 3 from the wing.
In fairness, Maryland also didn't score a couple times coming out of timeouts, and Duke did score once pretty easily coming out of a TV timeout.
I know this is a small sample size and all, but it seems to happen a lot, at least with regard to Duke's offense: we don't seem to draw up effective plays coming out of timeouts like other teams do.
Ok, now tell me why I'm wrong.