Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State coach Scott Nagy insisted he made more mistakes than his players during a 94-92 Horizon League tournament loss to Milwaukee. And roughly one week removed from that devastating setback, he still believes he deserves the bulk of the blame.
But he was caught by surprise when the Panthers, down 24 with 6:15 to go, put together a closing surge that didn’t seem possible. And while he saw some shortcomings late in the game that needed to be addressed, he figured he’d have another practice to do it.
“We were up 24. We were whipping them. It just got going in a way where we couldn’t get it stopped,” he said.
He probably could have made better use of his timeouts to slow momentum. He didn’t call one until the lead was down to six with 1:32 to go.
But he’s a 500-win coach who has seen every conceivable situation. And probably no one watching really thought the game was in danger of getting away until it was too late.
“I didn’t help our guys,” he said. “There was a point with four or five minutes to go where I was frustrated with some of the things we were doing. I could have helped stop the bleeding — but I didn’t think we were going to lose.
“Here I am after 26 years still making all kinds of mistakes.”
