Worst fictional coaching decision in movie/TV show

[cyclingwriter2]

Mr. Burns pulling strawberry was mentioned. ...going to throw in him benching Mattingly. Also, he is the most powerful man in Springfield and somehow he doesn't know Sax is in jail? Dont get me started on the sports psychologist who messed up clemens...

 

[Starman]

One other one for Norman Dale: Four pashes before shooting.

So if you're on a fast break, you can't shoot because you haven't done four pashes yet?

Well , the four-pashes-before-every-shot bullship goes out the window the second Jimmy Chitwood sets foot on the court anyway.

 

[Key]

This is one of the most delightful threads I've come across here. Well done.

All of the Nebraska high school basketball coaches in 1985 opting NOT to run a box-and-one on Teen Wolf once he became "Teen Wolf". That would have shut down the Beavers after they got a little film on his tendencies. Side note - Teen Wolf dumping the hot blonde to get back to Boof. Also a bad coaching decision.

Even worse was the inability of the Dragons coach to make any in-game adjustments to avoid losing a 20-point lead to the Teen Wolf-less Beavers in the city championship.

 

[expendable]

When Red Beaulieu fired Bobby Boucher as water boy.

 

[cjericho]

One other one for Norman Dale: Four pashes before shooting.

So if you're on a fast break, you can't shoot because you haven't done four pashes yet?

True. Reminds me of an old buddy at former job. Forget the coach or it may have even been one of the guys in the booth, but after the home team won the first two in the NBA Finals, he said "The series doesn't really begin until you win one on the road." My buddy says, "So if the home team wins every game, the series never began."

 

[TheWritingWaffle]

Billy Heywood starting Wegman in Little Big League

 

[cjericho]

Tikhonov pulling Tretiak.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Tikhonov pulling Tretiak.

Wait a minute? You mean Miracle was a fictional movie?

 

[cjericho]

Wait a minute? You mean Miracle was a fictional movie?

Forgot the title of the thread. Cancel that one.

 

[Small Town Guy]

Back to The Natural, the Pittsburgh manager not intentionally walking Roy Hobbs in the ninth. Knights had 1st and 3rd and it would have put tying run at second. So what?????? The Knights did nothing before Hobbs. They collapsed after he collapsed at the party. He hit a homer every two at-bats that season (give or take). Yeah, he'd struggled that game. So what? Walk him! Instead he brought in the hard-throwing young lefty and...

Also, one more point on Pop. Ragu mentioned him keeping Roy out of the lineup. But then how about after Hobbs's first-ever at-bat? You know, when he hit the cover off the ball! So what's Pop do in response? Start Bump Bailey again! The guy who was throwing games. To give him one more chance! Thankfully he "crashed" through a wall -- check the highlight again and please tell me how it killed him -- and opened the door for Roy. Should have been a farmer, Pop.

 

[Brian]

If the Dillon Panthers could go 80 yards in less than a minute to end every other game, why didn't Coach Taylor just run the hurry-up offense the entire game?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Back to The Natural, the Pittsburgh manager not intentionally walking Roy Hobbs in the ninth. Knights had 1st and 3rd and it would have put tying run at second. So what?????? The Knights did nothing before Hobbs. They collapsed after he collapsed at the party. He hit a homer every two at-bats that season (give or take). Yeah, he'd struggled that game. So what? Walk him! Instead he brought in the hard-throwing young lefty and...

Also, one more point on Pop. Ragu mentioned him keeping Roy out of the lineup. But then how about after Hobbs's first-ever at-bat? You know, when he hit the cover off the ball! So what's Pop do in response? Start Bump Bailey again! The guy who was throwing games. To give him one more chance! Thankfully he "crashed" through a wall -- check the highlight again and please tell me how it killed him -- and opened the door for Roy. Should have been a farmer, Pop.

Bump was also supposedly the best player on the team. So why not shift either him or Hobbs to center or left and put both guys in the lineup? Maybe the defensive metrics get hurt a little, but the offense gets a boost.