Chris Mack was very candid in his post Butler game press conference about this game and the state of this team.Two things stood out: Bluett and Macura are now juniors and they have to be leaders and consistent. They cannot have bad games where they , as they did yesterday combine for 10 turnovers which was as many as Butler had as a team.
Second, the players are not tuned in. Both times they set up traps he explicily told them not to foul and they did anyway.
His frustration was palpable.
As he said, it all comes back to him as a coach. In other words he knows his players have to develop, get better, mature, gain skills and confidence year over year and he/we are not seeing that.
I think Chris Mack is a great coach able to bring the best out of his players.
But he has , particularly in Macura, an uncoachable player.
To see Macura have 7 turnovers, two of them in a row, leading to points when the game was close, says a lot. Lazy passes, passing to players that are covered, passing to players he has not communicated to that the ball might be coming.
What does a coach do with someone who refuses to drill down on fundamentals.
Usually you sit them.
How would you handle Macura?
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