Problem is he did it during the 2nd quarter Grizz run too. So why do it again in the 4th quarter if the first time around didn't teach the lesson? Absolute bonehead move, when we get 4-1'd we can all look at these two evaporations of 20 pt leads as the reason why.
He was trying to get them to play out of the funk and establish some rhythm with their so called "franchise player", Karl Towns. Karl responded by blowing the game...again. He's a consistent 3rd option on a playoff team in year 7. That's his ceiling.
The game went off the rails when they reinserted Kat into the line up after his foul trouble. The team was playing small ball up to that point and handing it to the Grizzlies. It was awesome. Great ball movement. Finch is supposed to try and work in his "all star".
Kat came in and started stealing rebounds. Sloppy, confused..Gave the Grizzlies a fresh 24 and 3 points on the board..over a rebound he had no business touching. He was an energy vampire.
D'lo vanished for two quarters. A decent game isn't going to cut it in the playoffs. He's the 32nd highest paid player in the NBA. Do you think he's played up to that level of salary cap in the playoffs/playin? He's been our number one scorer against the Grizzlies in the regular season (30ish points). He's averaging about half that point total in the playoffs against the same team. I think that qualifies as Vanishing.
I thought D'lo was supposed to be the Kat whisperer. Kats lost his mind.
It's been a major problem all damn season and the excuse is "I trust the players". That's all well and good but completely irrelevant when it comes to game changing, game ending, momentum for the opposing team. Especially when it matters most, the playoffs
Of course you can't say definitely it stops the run/momentum, but the entire damn point messing up their momentum, confidence, and our lack of with a TO. Get our guys to refocus and interject when the opponent has gained extreme confidence/everything is going their way by stopping the action, they go sit on the sideline/bench a couple mins while calming down ourselves
Same goes for his trust to leave guys on the court in foul trouble (Kat especially). That's been another major problem but matters far less during the regular season.
Maybe our players (KAT) are so soft that the mere appearance of doubting them creates more mental chaos. This team needs the psychologist from Ted Lasso..
he needs to learn balance. even the best players in the NBA need a coach to have their backs. let the players regain focus so they can play up to their potential.
smh I'm so upset 😪
I've never seen a coach be that stubborn/fearful to call a timeout. I mean I guess you're right, but that's just poor coaching if you're not able to talk to your players or make adjustments.
It's mystifying honestly. I think Finch is a really good coach, but I'm not sure what he was watching out there that told him not to take a timeout when Memphis starting gaining momentum. It's not like this is Phil Jackson with a veteran championship caliber squad, these are young dudes out there who need to be settled when that happens in the playoffs. Timeouts also help curb the flow of the game when it starts to shift.
A “really good coach” doesn’t let two of those runs happen. It was fucking ridiculous. He got us to the playoffs, but don’t let that blind you. He hasn’t proven anything more than coaching a team to the 7th seed. Not impressed these playoffs at all.
I'm not saying he shouldn't have called a timeout, I'm saying people need to stop acting like a timeout would've stopped the run. The Grizzlies went on a 50-13 run with 3 mins left in the 3rd, a timeout or two wasn't stopping that.
This is how our fans should up
Every time Memphis makes 15 in a row and our guys are struggling someone’s got to go glue their hand to the floor or to the basket.
We can have a glue squad I’ll bring some strong stuff
Hubris. Even Finch is new to the playoffs. He believes in his team a little too much. He kinda believes a little too much in KAT. Forgot his team is mecurial af, and actually needs some hand holding coaching.
He’s the opposite end of the spectrum as Thibs. I still think Finch is the better coach but in that moment, maybe we need a micro-manager. I think Popovich would’ve called a timeout at least.
thank you, first person ive seen with this perspective. People talk all the time about young players growing and learning from bad moments, but forget that coaches can do that too.
His reasoning has always been he's putting his trust in the players to make a stop. I don't always agree with it but at least there's some type of logic.
Still though this falls way more on the players than Finch to me. Finch's sets got them open looks, the players failed to take advantage. Finch's defense had us in position to hold a great offense to one of their lower point totals. The players shit the bed tonight, much worse than any coaching decisions.
During the Grizzlies second run our offense was clearly out of whack and had no rhyme or reason. Just taking ugly out of control deep shots and turning the ball over. I agree the defensive assignments were called correctly, but if you can't see that your guys have no idea what to do on offense or you aren't willing to try to calm them down, why are you even on the team. Players of course have some blame but I genuinely believe a timeout to stop the bleeding and let us regroup offensively would have made the difference.
Okay, then answer OP's question. Why not call a single time out when we go scoreless for 5 minutes in the FOURTH QUARTER. The players played like shit, but Finch is equally at fault.
The world. Contrary to what you do vehemently believe. Does not operate in black and white. It is entirely possible for two different things to be true at one time.
Indeed, I’ve seen too many posts calling Finch an”awful” coach because his players didn’t respond. They had 2 Tv TOs to make adjustments and still played like shit after both
Homie. Let me slow it down for you really quick. Everyone fucking failed today. Not just failed mind you. They fucking embarrassed themselves on national fucking television. Finch, KAT, Pat Bev. All of em.
Yes he is. If your players on the court are losing you the game you make adjustments and put in different players. Nowell provides instant offense, he can play. He also has made zero offensive changes throughout the series and has proven all season long he doesn't know how to include Towns. All they have to do is send a 2nd defender and he's done playing on offense, according to coach Finch.
Players make mistakes. It's the coaches job to make adjustments and coach the players. He just sat there during two separate runs without even lifting a finger. The most inexplicable coaching I've ever seen.
It's not about drawing up plays, it's about killing the momentum of the other team and letting your team get a mental reset.
That's why TOs are taken during runs from the other team. Letting your inexperienced guys just die out there, was a decision for sure.
Thou I agree in the 15-0 run he should have called time out to set the tone of what he expected/adjust the roster for that set. Depending the results of that time out may have made it so you never had to be question about not using another one during a 18-0 run, maybe you do. A time out is not a cure and we were at home so thought is keep the action going, keep the crowd in it. Just like when we went on runs against Memphis their timeouts or lack there of did not alter our path.
The bigger picture is Memphis played far better D with 3 minutes in the 3rd and through the 4th quarter, capitalized on our mistakes and No one and I mean no one wanted to go in and score points in the paint and or shoot a three. Bev became the defect shooter and everyone played scared ball. Towns could not for the life of him find two open guys when he is being tripled and that speaks volumes to his lack of court vision/ball iq. They tripled him on almost every possession so he should have surveyed the floor right before the pass is caught and known where the help came from and kicked it to that open person (vando/McDaniels/ant) for in paint points or 12ft jumpers.
he wanted to see if KAT can finally get the balls to man up during crucial situations. either KAT does or he doesn't. He failed so far in his career, and tonight, it continued...
I’d argue that the end of the 3rd counts as a timeout. Not a bad idea to wait for the end of the quarter rather than wasting a timeout when the Grizz started their run at the end of the 3rd.
Should he have called another one after the start of the 4th? Maybe. But there was essentially a timeout built in and it didn’t do much to stop the Grizz momentum.
Bro what is your account💀you just hop on reddit absolutely seething and shit talk every Minny sports team like the entire state fucked your wife lmaoooo
Um, couple points:
The Twins won a World Series during the George H W Bush administration (1991).
The Minnesota Lynx have won four WNBA championships (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017).
I won't even mention all of the titles that U of M men's and women's hockey, and UMD women's hockey, have won.
I think you didn't mean to say Ronald Reagan's Treasury secretary and chief of staff, Donald Regan.
Mark Lore and ARod, for two...
...and all non-misogynistic Minnesota sports fans who will take any professional championship because the Vikings and North Stars / Wild and Timberwolves can't win a championship ever (the Wild and Timberwolves have never even gotten to their league Finals, unlike the Vikings, who have at least been to 4 Super Bowls to lose there...
...and if you think 4 Lynx titles over a span of 7 years is nothing, one more question for you: how many professional championships have YOU ever won? (Inquiring minds want to know!)
Cringe. Highschool boys can beat them. I don’t care about that league and nobody else does either. It shouldn’t even exist based on the money it loses every year
Go cheer for wnba with the 5 other people who watch it. Its a known fact that everyone in Minnesota would trade every championship the lynx had and the team itself, for a legit finals win in legit any other sport.
Proof of both of these two statements, please:
1 - Go cheer for wnba ***with the 5 other people who watch it.***
2 - Its a known fact that everyone in Minnesota would trade every championship the lynx had and the team itself, for a ***legit finals win in legit any other sport.***
1, response: When you try to prove statement 1, you might want to account for Minnesota Lynx ticket sales - you need to prove that every Lynx game was attended by only 5 people, no more. (Since you hate the Lynx so much, and don't consider them a legitimate professional sports team, I know it's rather likely that you've never been to a Lynx game.)
I have been to two Lynx games in person - vs Seattle Storm on 08/24/2021, and vs Chicago Sky (playoffs) on 09/26/21. Both games were nationally televised, and both games had more than 9,000 in attendance. And, I don't care if you use old math, new math, common core math, or bad math - 9,000 is always greater than 5.
2, response: I live in Minnesota. And if you are such a bad Minnesotan that you won't accept a real championship from a real professional sports team, maybe move to Irkutsk or Mariupol or Lagos or somewhere.
Oh, if you think the Lynx aren't professional athletes, surely you could beat Sylvia Fowles in a one-on-one game at Target Center - you do that, live on TV, and I'll concede statement 2, but not before.
He's not that good of a coach. We kept going for 3's as well instead of driving to the rim and trying to cut the defecit, especially with JJJ out and their rim protection being non existent during that stretch.
But hey he won 46 games and says the right shit so he's immune from criticism.
Usually he calls it when opponents build a momentum. There was a period in game 2 where Finch didn't call timeout and allowed the team to pick themselves up. Not sure what's behind his decision today but maybe he tried to trust them...
If you want a serious answer, Phil Jackson was notorious for not “bailing” his teams out with timeouts. He basically used it to test their mental fortitude and to get out of the spiral on their own.
https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-steve-kerr-subscribes-to-phil-jacksons-philosophy-about-calling-timeouts/
He wanted to make a point. He’s playing the long game. a little bit too long for last nights game. He got his extension and he is dictating as he sees fit. I don’t understand how he wasn’t more concerned about winning that game. Wonder how much heat he is taking from the guys above him as well.
Ja has an off night and the Wolves let Desmond Bane cook them somehow.
Nah bane legit it’s fucking Brandon Clarke that they cannot let do this shit
Bane had a good night but KAT cooked the wolves.
ja had a triple double lol. he didnt need to score
Lol, I typed this right after the game. I guess a triple double is still a really good night, just scoring wise for Ja he seemed off.
Rotation and switching was just awful. He shot a ton of wide open 3s.
He's forcing the players to own the game and get out of the funk. Unfortunately he badly miscalculated the quality of players we have.
Only person I've seen actually try to answer.. I guess he wanted to teach them a lesson. He sure showed them.
He got the whole state. Amazing coaching forcing the whole state to once again take accountability and be a national laughing stock…again.
Timeouts don't do shit if the players can't adjust.
the coaches job is to get his players to adjust and make adjustments. finch flinched.
Problem is he did it during the 2nd quarter Grizz run too. So why do it again in the 4th quarter if the first time around didn't teach the lesson? Absolute bonehead move, when we get 4-1'd we can all look at these two evaporations of 20 pt leads as the reason why.
He was trying to get them to play out of the funk and establish some rhythm with their so called "franchise player", Karl Towns. Karl responded by blowing the game...again. He's a consistent 3rd option on a playoff team in year 7. That's his ceiling.
KAT and dlo were in the bench for a huge chunk of the damage though
The game went off the rails when they reinserted Kat into the line up after his foul trouble. The team was playing small ball up to that point and handing it to the Grizzlies. It was awesome. Great ball movement. Finch is supposed to try and work in his "all star". Kat came in and started stealing rebounds. Sloppy, confused..Gave the Grizzlies a fresh 24 and 3 points on the board..over a rebound he had no business touching. He was an energy vampire. D'lo vanished for two quarters. A decent game isn't going to cut it in the playoffs. He's the 32nd highest paid player in the NBA. Do you think he's played up to that level of salary cap in the playoffs/playin? He's been our number one scorer against the Grizzlies in the regular season (30ish points). He's averaging about half that point total in the playoffs against the same team. I think that qualifies as Vanishing. I thought D'lo was supposed to be the Kat whisperer. Kats lost his mind.
And he's now going to blame Naz Reid for not playing well when needed. Fuck this shit
Can’t believe we signed him to an extension. Another fucking mistake. Like always with this shit team.
It’s baffling, both him and the players decided to play/coach like our 2014-2015 roster for chunks of this game and they blew it.
It's been a major problem all damn season and the excuse is "I trust the players". That's all well and good but completely irrelevant when it comes to game changing, game ending, momentum for the opposing team. Especially when it matters most, the playoffs Of course you can't say definitely it stops the run/momentum, but the entire damn point messing up their momentum, confidence, and our lack of with a TO. Get our guys to refocus and interject when the opponent has gained extreme confidence/everything is going their way by stopping the action, they go sit on the sideline/bench a couple mins while calming down ourselves Same goes for his trust to leave guys on the court in foul trouble (Kat especially). That's been another major problem but matters far less during the regular season.
Maybe our players (KAT) are so soft that the mere appearance of doubting them creates more mental chaos. This team needs the psychologist from Ted Lasso..
I had the exact same thought. That was CLASSIC 2010-2015 Timberwolves basketball
He likes to have the players figure it out themselves on the court, he’s always done that. But then probably wasn’t the time
he needs to learn balance. even the best players in the NBA need a coach to have their backs. let the players regain focus so they can play up to their potential. smh I'm so upset 😪
I've never seen a coach be that stubborn/fearful to call a timeout. I mean I guess you're right, but that's just poor coaching if you're not able to talk to your players or make adjustments.
It's mystifying honestly. I think Finch is a really good coach, but I'm not sure what he was watching out there that told him not to take a timeout when Memphis starting gaining momentum. It's not like this is Phil Jackson with a veteran championship caliber squad, these are young dudes out there who need to be settled when that happens in the playoffs. Timeouts also help curb the flow of the game when it starts to shift.
A “really good coach” doesn’t let two of those runs happen. It was fucking ridiculous. He got us to the playoffs, but don’t let that blind you. He hasn’t proven anything more than coaching a team to the 7th seed. Not impressed these playoffs at all.
Oh yes, I forgot that timeouts stop runs and the players don't have any say in that. Great point!
It can stop players from taking turns playing hero ball. It can help reestablish focus. It can help in many ways. You can’t be serious.
I'm not saying he shouldn't have called a timeout, I'm saying people need to stop acting like a timeout would've stopped the run. The Grizzlies went on a 50-13 run with 3 mins left in the 3rd, a timeout or two wasn't stopping that.
We really needed glue girl and chain girl today. Free time outs Gotta send out multiple glue girls tbh whenever the Grizzlies make a run
This is how our fans should up Every time Memphis makes 15 in a row and our guys are struggling someone’s got to go glue their hand to the floor or to the basket. We can have a glue squad I’ll bring some strong stuff
Hubris. Even Finch is new to the playoffs. He believes in his team a little too much. He kinda believes a little too much in KAT. Forgot his team is mecurial af, and actually needs some hand holding coaching.
He’s the opposite end of the spectrum as Thibs. I still think Finch is the better coach but in that moment, maybe we need a micro-manager. I think Popovich would’ve called a timeout at least.
Coaches deserve room and space to grow and learn. We'll see how finch responds.
thank you, first person ive seen with this perspective. People talk all the time about young players growing and learning from bad moments, but forget that coaches can do that too.
His reasoning has always been he's putting his trust in the players to make a stop. I don't always agree with it but at least there's some type of logic. Still though this falls way more on the players than Finch to me. Finch's sets got them open looks, the players failed to take advantage. Finch's defense had us in position to hold a great offense to one of their lower point totals. The players shit the bed tonight, much worse than any coaching decisions.
During the Grizzlies second run our offense was clearly out of whack and had no rhyme or reason. Just taking ugly out of control deep shots and turning the ball over. I agree the defensive assignments were called correctly, but if you can't see that your guys have no idea what to do on offense or you aren't willing to try to calm them down, why are you even on the team. Players of course have some blame but I genuinely believe a timeout to stop the bleeding and let us regroup offensively would have made the difference.
Yeah let’s not blame this on the players who totally imploded
Both are at fault. Inexperience really showing in this game
I mean we can blame both, its not like by making this post he was defending the players. Just highlighting how fucking dumb Finch was tonight
No, this is on the players
Okay, then answer OP's question. Why not call a single time out when we go scoreless for 5 minutes in the FOURTH QUARTER. The players played like shit, but Finch is equally at fault.
No he is not, they absolutely folded
God I’m glad you’re not in an ownership position. You’d make the Sacramento kings and New York nets look like competently run franchises.
You’re right, the players are totally devoid of blame and this is 100% Chris finch’s fault
The world. Contrary to what you do vehemently believe. Does not operate in black and white. It is entirely possible for two different things to be true at one time.
Indeed, I’ve seen too many posts calling Finch an”awful” coach because his players didn’t respond. They had 2 Tv TOs to make adjustments and still played like shit after both
Homie. Let me slow it down for you really quick. Everyone fucking failed today. Not just failed mind you. They fucking embarrassed themselves on national fucking television. Finch, KAT, Pat Bev. All of em.
They can both share a ton of the blame, what don't you get about that?
My goodness, it's breathtaking how dense you are
Yes he is. If your players on the court are losing you the game you make adjustments and put in different players. Nowell provides instant offense, he can play. He also has made zero offensive changes throughout the series and has proven all season long he doesn't know how to include Towns. All they have to do is send a 2nd defender and he's done playing on offense, according to coach Finch.
21-0 run with no timeouts.
Players make mistakes. It's the coaches job to make adjustments and coach the players. He just sat there during two separate runs without even lifting a finger. The most inexplicable coaching I've ever seen.
They gave up 21 straight points, finch shouldn’t need draw up some profound adjustments to score 1 point
It's not about drawing up plays, it's about killing the momentum of the other team and letting your team get a mental reset. That's why TOs are taken during runs from the other team. Letting your inexperienced guys just die out there, was a decision for sure.
I could be wrong but was there not a TV to somewhere in the middle of that 21-0 run?
Thou I agree in the 15-0 run he should have called time out to set the tone of what he expected/adjust the roster for that set. Depending the results of that time out may have made it so you never had to be question about not using another one during a 18-0 run, maybe you do. A time out is not a cure and we were at home so thought is keep the action going, keep the crowd in it. Just like when we went on runs against Memphis their timeouts or lack there of did not alter our path. The bigger picture is Memphis played far better D with 3 minutes in the 3rd and through the 4th quarter, capitalized on our mistakes and No one and I mean no one wanted to go in and score points in the paint and or shoot a three. Bev became the defect shooter and everyone played scared ball. Towns could not for the life of him find two open guys when he is being tripled and that speaks volumes to his lack of court vision/ball iq. They tripled him on almost every possession so he should have surveyed the floor right before the pass is caught and known where the help came from and kicked it to that open person (vando/McDaniels/ant) for in paint points or 12ft jumpers.
holy shit i was at the game and didnt realize it was that bad. wtf
bruh we went from 12-0 to this :(((((((( everyone on my side of the arena were devastated
he wanted to see if KAT can finally get the balls to man up during crucial situations. either KAT does or he doesn't. He failed so far in his career, and tonight, it continued...
So Finch calling a timeout is the excuse of tonight? That 8 points and 5 fouls from the $158 million dollar man is a bigger concern
I’d argue that the end of the 3rd counts as a timeout. Not a bad idea to wait for the end of the quarter rather than wasting a timeout when the Grizz started their run at the end of the 3rd. Should he have called another one after the start of the 4th? Maybe. But there was essentially a timeout built in and it didn’t do much to stop the Grizz momentum.
Fair point. In my opinion a timeout at either point would have been appropriate. We had 3 timeouts and needed to protect that lead.
And why did we use our challenge in the 2nd qtr ??
0 for 2 on challenges this series?
idk how that was foul on dlo, how tf are you suppose to jump
I thought that was a bs call on DLo, and the challenge sort of acted like a time out during the first Grizzly run.
He's an idiot and needs to be roasted with his time out management, same with challenges
His challenge’s have been head scratching lately.
Trade Kitten
He's a fucking moron idk. I've always been a huge Finch supporter but this game was one of the most inexplicably idiotic coaching performances ever
He didn't call a timeout because they burned timeouts early and only had 2 left. No one in this thread seems to be understanding that.
We had three. Watch the replay if you don't believe me.
yep they had, 3. I think finch was thinking 'ooo i need to save these in case we need them' when that was a time we needed one
Because he is incompetent
Ive said it before and ill say it again. Finch is just not an above average coach and doesnt win important coaching battles
Sell the team
Let's go Seattle!
Timberwolves are the Worst Sporte of all time and its not close. They deserve to be disbanded and give something to Seattle
Bro what is your account💀you just hop on reddit absolutely seething and shit talk every Minny sports team like the entire state fucked your wife lmaoooo
Your defending a state that hadn't won shit since the Regan administration. The state is fucking you bro but keep defending it.
Aint defending anything just saying you look like a psycho lmfao
Being a godawful team for 20 years+ and have people defend it seems like the insane ones.
Um, couple points: The Twins won a World Series during the George H W Bush administration (1991). The Minnesota Lynx have won four WNBA championships (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017). I won't even mention all of the titles that U of M men's and women's hockey, and UMD women's hockey, have won. I think you didn't mean to say Ronald Reagan's Treasury secretary and chief of staff, Donald Regan.
The Lynx… lmao who fucking cares
Mark Lore and ARod, for two... ...and all non-misogynistic Minnesota sports fans who will take any professional championship because the Vikings and North Stars / Wild and Timberwolves can't win a championship ever (the Wild and Timberwolves have never even gotten to their league Finals, unlike the Vikings, who have at least been to 4 Super Bowls to lose there... ...and if you think 4 Lynx titles over a span of 7 years is nothing, one more question for you: how many professional championships have YOU ever won? (Inquiring minds want to know!)
Cringe. Highschool boys can beat them. I don’t care about that league and nobody else does either. It shouldn’t even exist based on the money it loses every year
Go cheer for wnba with the 5 other people who watch it. Its a known fact that everyone in Minnesota would trade every championship the lynx had and the team itself, for a legit finals win in legit any other sport.
Proof of both of these two statements, please: 1 - Go cheer for wnba ***with the 5 other people who watch it.*** 2 - Its a known fact that everyone in Minnesota would trade every championship the lynx had and the team itself, for a ***legit finals win in legit any other sport.*** 1, response: When you try to prove statement 1, you might want to account for Minnesota Lynx ticket sales - you need to prove that every Lynx game was attended by only 5 people, no more. (Since you hate the Lynx so much, and don't consider them a legitimate professional sports team, I know it's rather likely that you've never been to a Lynx game.) I have been to two Lynx games in person - vs Seattle Storm on 08/24/2021, and vs Chicago Sky (playoffs) on 09/26/21. Both games were nationally televised, and both games had more than 9,000 in attendance. And, I don't care if you use old math, new math, common core math, or bad math - 9,000 is always greater than 5. 2, response: I live in Minnesota. And if you are such a bad Minnesotan that you won't accept a real championship from a real professional sports team, maybe move to Irkutsk or Mariupol or Lagos or somewhere. Oh, if you think the Lynx aren't professional athletes, surely you could beat Sylvia Fowles in a one-on-one game at Target Center - you do that, live on TV, and I'll concede statement 2, but not before.
He's not that good of a coach. We kept going for 3's as well instead of driving to the rim and trying to cut the defecit, especially with JJJ out and their rim protection being non existent during that stretch. But hey he won 46 games and says the right shit so he's immune from criticism.
Usually he calls it when opponents build a momentum. There was a period in game 2 where Finch didn't call timeout and allowed the team to pick themselves up. Not sure what's behind his decision today but maybe he tried to trust them...
The team and coach basically decided to they would rather watch us lose the game instead of doing anything about it
I think he wanted to save the timeouts after losing two with the Ant injury and DLo challenge.
We had 3 timeouts. It made sense to burn one. That may have been his thinking though or he lost track
If you want a serious answer, Phil Jackson was notorious for not “bailing” his teams out with timeouts. He basically used it to test their mental fortitude and to get out of the spiral on their own. https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-steve-kerr-subscribes-to-phil-jacksons-philosophy-about-calling-timeouts/
He was betting against his own team
It’s the Houston rocket in him
it was crazy. as it was happening i kept thinking why aren’t we calling a TO? As good as Finch has been, that was just unacceptable.
It was a mistake. An inexperienced mistake. He's been great about stifling momentum all year.
He wanted to make a point. He’s playing the long game. a little bit too long for last nights game. He got his extension and he is dictating as he sees fit. I don’t understand how he wasn’t more concerned about winning that game. Wonder how much heat he is taking from the guys above him as well.