Tournament time - #7 seed - Oral Roberts next...

[instaGATOR]

I'm just a fan, not the very knowledgeable coach that Mike is.
That said, I might put Duruji on their shooting forward, and Locke on their PG, at least to begin with.

I have lost confidence in Lewis being anything but being selfish, instead of being a solid 'team' player.
I sincerely hope that he surprises me and remembers his place on the TEAM....

Among the starters, UF has 4 scoring in double figures (team), while OR has only 2.
Disrupt their 2 and it should slow them down, unless they have others that can step up.
GoooooooooooGATORS!!!

 

[Nicktheslick]

Looks like the officials all calling crap.

 

[Gator Fever]

Just need to stay focused and get the win.

 

[Nicktheslick]

We can’t take the air out of the ball. You lose momentum. Frustrating.

 

[fsumc]

You guys had 13 point lead and suddenly shut the offense down with 15 minutes left? I can see why you would want him gone.

 

[Dannygator1989]

You guys had 13 point lead and suddenly shut the offense down with 15 minutes left? I can see why you would want him gone.

Its classic Mike White. He's the Muschamp or Smart of basketball. Got a lead? Cool. Let's completely disrupt our offense and drain clock and then panic when the game is close because you spent so much time not scoring.

 

[fsumc]

Its classic Mike White. He's the Muschamp or Smart of basketball. Got a lead? Cool. Let's completely disrupt our offense and drain clock and then panic when the game is close because you spent so much time not scoring.

I mean you guys were on fire and suddenly didn’t feel like scoring 80 points.

 

[Dannygator1989]

I mean you guys were on fire and suddenly didn’t feel like scoring 80 points.

like I said.

 

[Nicktheslick]

Why on earth do you quit running your offense when shooting 60%?

 

[Nicktheslick]

I got a bad feeling about this game. I’ve seen this script before.

 

[NavigatorII]

Why on earth do you quit running your offense when shooting 60%?

Snatching defeat from the clutches of victory. It's been this way for the last 3 plus years. I'm sick of it. It's become status quo.

 

[PacoGator19]

It’s Mike White’s mo. It has been the same thing for 6 years. He doesn’t know how to play with a lead. You’d think by now he’d figure it out but I guess not.

 

[NavigatorII]

It’s Mike White’s mo. It has been the same thing for 6 years. He doesn’t know how to play with a lead. You’d think by now he’d figure it out but I guess not.

White's become the Kirby Smart of college basketball. I think that's the best way I can sum it all up.

 

[Nicktheslick]

We are being schooled in the coaching department.

 

[LizardGrad89]

Thank you coach White for another typical Florida basketball game.

I don't know any other coach better able to take a team with 25 win talent and go out and win 17 games.

 

[steven orr]

Amazing how we give up wide open threes the last minutes of the game after they’ve made it from that corner multiple times.

 

[Gator Fever]

Unbelievable...

 

[gatordad3]

Funny, but his players also think that the gatorDud is as FoS as he always sounds... 😆

Funny how Mike White's coaching caught up with the team.

 

[LizardGrad89]

Have you noticed how, in the middle of games, when he isn't doing a lot, maybe calling a few plays but mostly clapping his hands, we do pretty well, but when it gets to the end of the game, when coaching becomes so important, we turn into crap?

It's not a coincidence.

 

[Nicktheslick]

This is just a total meltdown. Our kids deserve better than this. Let a team back in by shutting down the offense with twelve frigging minutes to go. Damn.

 

[fsumc]

It was like watching someone slowly bleed to death. From self inflicted wounds.

 

[Countygator1]

This is who he is. He is just not a very good coach. Slowed us down for some unknown reason, then went to that stupid 1-3-1 zone that is so easy for teams to score against. I thought for sure after 6 straight points he would get out of it.

 

[Gator Fever]

Funny how Mike White's coaching caught up with the team.

Should have figured this was coming as he tried to give the VT game away with stupid late coaching decisions.

 

[Dannygator1989]

Waiting for insta to do his thing.

blame the players, laid the coach.

 

[gatordad3]

Unbelievable...

Why was Osifo in the game rather than Lewis? I knew from the moment he would be forced to shoot free throws, Florida would lose this game. Great coaching move by Mike White.

 

[ocalaman]

This is the first game I've watched from start to finish in several weeks and it's the same old same old. Inconsistency!! Did not score the last 2 1/2 minutes of the game. Had a 10 point lead halfway through the 2nd half and White goes to a slowdown offense that allows them to get back in the game. Stupid play after stupid play, non-sensical turnovers. For every great play Appleby makes, he makes 2 dumb ones. Way more turnovers than assists, way too many dumb fouls, especially in the 2nd half. Oral Roberts may be the best 15 seed I've ever seen and I've watched every NCAA tournament since they started putting them on TV with the expanded field. But the better team (not the team with the best players) won the game, as did the better coach. Wait 'til next year, right? Is everybody excited about more of this?

 

[Nicktheslick]

We were totally out coached in this game(and season).

 

[NavigatorII]

We were totally out coached in this game(and season).

We got outcoached in most of our wins. That speaks volumes.

 

[steven orr]

4:44 left 74-68. From that point on 3 turnovers, a missed free throw, and 2 baskets made.

 

[Countygator1]

Why was Osifo in the game rather than Lewis? I knew from the moment he would be forced to shoot free throws, Florida would lose this game. Great coaching move by Mike White.

It was mind boggling. When Osifo entered ORU promptly went on a 9-2 run. We knew they would score points, so you need your best offensive players in. Needed more points. ORU was going to get their regardless.

 

[Nicktheslick]

What a great call by their coach to intentionally foul Osifu.

 

[martycat1]

“The boys just didn’t do what I told them” said Adolph Rupp a few times after a loss, but that was a different time way back in the past.

I was going to interject but then I remembered that UK didnt make the tourny. I saw alot of White-Cal comparisons.

 

[TEBOW TIME]

Fire White and Grantham tomorrow

 

[ocalaman]

Hotels.com has Captain Obvious. Florida basketball has Major Inconsistency in Mike White.

 

[Nicktheslick]

Hotels.com has Captain Obvious. Florida basketball has Major Inconsistency in Mike White.

And General confusion.

 

[Nicktheslick]

Well on a happier note, how about that baseball team.

 

[gatordad3]

Well on a happier note, how about that baseball team.

At least Sully hasn't slipped into Mike White mode, you know, pissing away talent!?

 

[sadgator]

sadgator was not successful in trying to convince mrs. sadgator that we could still turn an “oral” win into something positive for us both...

a disappointing night in more ways than one...

 

[GatorNation79]

lol, sloppy play, bad ball movement and a few other things, oral is easy sad lol

 

[GatorNation79]

lol, sloppy play, bad ball movement and a few other things, oral is easy sad lol

I don't think to much about it but if we chose to being a championship team we can't lose to this team