The writer couldn't be any more wrong about the end of last night's game. The only thing wrong with the last 32 seconds was a bad shot Brandon took and Brandon had played very well down the stretch.
In fact if you go back to the 4:52 mark, when Bryant committed his fourth foul, the only possible coaching mistake was not getting Bryant back into the game sooner. However, he was sitting at the scorer's table from about 3 minutes to go and there wasn't a stoppage for him to enter. And we were playing well.
Last night, we gave a team for whom only JC and Bryant would get over 15 mpg for all they could handle. They were much bigger, stronger, faster and deeper than our squad. This is indisputable. They have 6 Burger boys. Yet we gave them all they could handle.
We could have easily folded early in the second half when they got up 19 and kept it at fifteen for a few minutes. My bad, it's not coaching to get your team not to fold and get them back in the game.
There's no such thing as a moral victory. All you can do is play as well as you can and let the chips fall where they may.
If a coach gets a hugely undermanned team in the position we were in last night, it's not the time to hack him up. Again, and I know many won't pay attention to this, I'm not saying Danny is a world beater coach, but last night he got our team to play way over its head against a much better team. Last night is not the time to rag on him.