Tommy is Scared

[Naterade]

So Tommy scheduled a ridiculously tough out of conference slate because he's Scared? Think about what you're saying before you start bashing a coach who chose to play real teams early so his team can learn and develop. Nothing to be ashamed of in this loss, and will most definitely be a good learning experience for the cats this year. All that really matters is advancing in March. I can't judge this team until it's all over.

[Keithjacksontucson]

Arxpert , worst fan in history

[lynxaz]

Asspert is no expert at all he just pretends he coaches div 1 basketball. When in reality he is giving his expertise from his keyboard in the janitor closet.

Truth be told Lloyd is not scared he is the one that scheduled these games.
Also the sky is not falling we have only lost 2 games in the entire OOC schedule.
That's pretty damn good so
Back the A

[KansasCityCats]

Wholesome and cocky are polar opposites. Calipari, Pitino and Shaka Smart are cocky.

I'm only an apologist for Lloyd's flaws. Saying that he was blown out of games in 2OT or that he lost the locker room (without ever entering the locker room) is strictly finding an internet way of picking on a coach that is breaking NCAA records.

If you want to complain about his NCAA tournament losses or that Ballo should be pulled sooner in games for FT purposes, I get it. Otherwise, this is a well-oiled machine with potential to carry its success throughout the next 5 years (based on the stellar recruiting of our staff).

[Zona Nation]

What an incredibly stupid post! Look no further than the person that posted it lmao

[arxpert]

So Tommy scheduled a ridiculously tough out of conference slate because he's Scared? Think about what you're saying before you start bashing a coach who chose to play real teams early so his team can learn and develop. Nothing to be ashamed of in this loss, and will most definitely be a good learning experience for the cats this year. All that really matters is advancing in March. I can't judge this team until it's all over.

That is an apologist statement. A real man would schedule the entire OOC slate as ranked games by your logic. So maybe sit down and understand that being scared has nothing to do with his scheduling and everything to do with what happens once the ball is tipped and Tommy can't back up his "Edey/Purdue hasn't seen Arizona yet!" false bravado type comments in between games.

Tommy is the poster child for "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" right now.

Don't get your hopes up. These last 3 games have made this team worse. Love has become the Alpha of this team and it has been detrimental.

[arxpert]

Asspert is no expert at all he just pretends he coaches div 1 basketball. When in reality he is giving his expertise from his keyboard in the janitor closet.

Truth be told Lloyd is not scared he is the one that scheduled these games.
Also the sky is not falling we have only lost 2 games in the entire OOC schedule.
That's pretty damn good so
Back the A

I will say it again so the slow ones can hear it.

This post has nothing to do with scheduling.

It has everything to do with Tommy getting punched in the mouth and not knowing how to respond.

"Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the mouth".

I guarantee all of you were like YEAAAHHH every time Love saved the day yesterday after multiple misses that could have sealed the game.

A lot of you forgot what got Arizona to #1.

[arxpert]

I really think that some people do not understand how much trash Tommy talks between games and how complacent he is throughout the games.

Maybe Tommy will go full Roy Williams deep squat and get this team to listen at some point, but right now, Tommy has been exposed.

He has a lot of work to do to regain the locker room.

Boswell has checked out and doesn't care about leading this team. He is the beta to Love now. Tommy needs to separate them for a while until they can understand how to coexist.

It is always interesting to see what we look like when we aren't hiding vs teams like Belmont. Barely scraped by Michigan State. That should have been the red flag.

I personally thought that we could get through this 4 game stretch with 3 wins, but even if we were destined to win 2 games, I did not expect this team to be in complete and utter shambles like this.

Tommy needs to reinvent this team. All this talk about scheduling....

He played about 1 game a week for the last 5 weeks or so. He had way too much time to put this piss poor of a product out on the court.

[lynxaz]

Asspert is no expert at all he just pretends he coaches div 1 basketball. When in reality he is giving his expertise from his keyboard in the janitor closet.

Truth be told Lloyd is not scared he is the one that scheduled these games.
Also the sky is not falling we have only lost 2 games in the entire OOC schedule.
That's pretty damn good so
Back the A

I will say it again so the slow ones can hear it.

This post has nothing to do with scheduling.

It has everything to do with Tommy getting punched in the mouth and not knowing how to respond.

"Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the mouth".

I guarantee all of you were like YEAAAHHH every time Love saved the day yesterday after multiple misses that could have sealed the game.

A lot of you forgot what got Arizona to #1.

So by your logic Tommy is scared of losing the lead and didn't know how to respond that makes no sense. If he was scared of losing he wouldn't have scheduled these teams in the first place. Your logic is nonsense. If you don't like Lloyd then easy fix go to another site and be a "fan"
He is the coach, not you. Yet you pretend like everything you say is the truth. You have no clue what is happening in the locker room but you make these assumptions  go figure

[TooStonedCat]

Title says it all. But I will say more. Tommy cannot beat quality opponents that are chemistry laden teams in any form. It's not in his DNA.

Everyone from the Coach to the Players knew that Tommy was scared as soon as that early 19-5 lead evaporated, Tommy was shaking in his boots and didn't know what to do so he just stood there with his arms folded and hoped that Love would chuck us out of it. All that did was give FAU more belief. We never really led the game in any way that mattered after that lead was gone.

We took 85 Shots and 26 FTs to FAU's 72 Shots and 20 FT attempts. FAU Made 8 3's, We made 7 3's.

When a Box Score is that lopsided in our favor and we lose by 1, there is only 1 reason and that is Tommy was horrible. So while I thought Houston, Princeton, and Purdue were his worst coaching jobs. I have now upgraded this game to his worst coaching job Ever. There is absolutely no excuse. None. No one can make a valid argument that can disprove that this was Tommy's worst performance as a Head Coach ever.

Tommy is habitually outcoached when the chips are down. I'm not here to listen to the sheep say "Tommy has an elite W/L record". It doesn't matter. He is not HIM when the chips are down unfortunately. This loss may end up looking better than it is analytically when it's all said and done, but I believe this knocks us off the 1 Line for good when the time comes. Unless we run the table in Conference play or maybe lose 1 game on the road. I can't see it. The Pac12 is horrible and we just got slapped 3 games in a row. 2 Losses and 1 win only by virtue of Alabama choosing to lose the game throwing up 3 after 3 --- They could have grinded and beat us. National Eyes see that. Don't think they are blind.

Tommy is still wildly inexperienced and he is incapable of coaching when his first plan goes out the window. The effort of the players was non-existent today. Don't let Double OT fool you. I think Tommy lost this game early on, but ultimately sealed our fate by not calling a Timeout at the end of Regulation to step up a Game Winning play.

The more this team stands around hoping Caleb Love can chuck his way to winning games for us, the more games we are going to lose.

At the moment, Tommy has lost the locker room from my POV. He will not win the Pac12 the way he has been coaching. We have been bullied, battered, and outplayed the last 3 games. The team identity is shattered at the moment. Too many eyes are focused on getting this season over with and not actually playing to Win it all.

You left out one little detail on the 'lopsided boxscore'  Arizona shot only 28% - worst of the year - and that obviously attributes to the loss.  I agree CTL should have had better plays at the end of reg and OT, but he wasn't the one tossing bricks

For the record FOOS (and to all) ---> This was the Short Version of my write up. I'm too crestfallen by Tommy to even dignify him with a write up on everything that happened. There are a lot of obvious things that transpired on the court that Tommy refused to even try to correct to take control of the game and play it on our terms instead of chasing FAU around letting them dictate everything.

PS - Some people let Tommy off the hook for the exact comment you just wrote FOOS --- while they buried Sean Miller for his failures in big games. How many times over the years have I posted in the cBox or Forum that "Players are on the court" in defense of Miller? Make or Miss, but Miller had his team's in positions to Win or Lose at the end of games.

Today, Tommy had us in multiple positions to Win the game and the players didn't pull through.

That's not the essence of my post, but it is a fact of the matter.

The essence of my post is that Tommy is cocky for absolutely no reason at all. He is being taken to school by opponents and he seems to not realize it.

How is Tommy Cocky?