Doug Gottlieb had by no means coached faculty basketball previous to this season. His first 12 months at Inexperienced Bay has been nothing in need of weird by way of 21 video games and recreation No. 22 is just not the exception.
He broke out a literal measuring tape previous to warmups as a result of he apparently didn’t belief the peak of the edges at Cleveland State.
Gottlieb is pulling double responsibility. Not solely does the 49-year-old function the top basketball coach on the College of Wisconsin-Inexperienced Bay, he continues to host a three-hour radio present for Fox Sports activities day by day in the course of the week. It’s an uncommon settlement that makes him look completely exhausted always.
Doug Gottlieb is just not profitable.
Sadly, Gottlieb’s tenure with the Phoenix has been traditionally unhealthy to this point. His workforce is at the moment in the course of a historic dropping streak at 2-19. Inexperienced Bay misplaced each single recreation in the course of the month of December after its head coach joked that he was not going to work in the course of the holidays. He additionally deleted a put up on social media that mocked girls’s basketball after the Phoenix’s horrific second-half collapse.
Doug Gottlieb continues to insist that individuals outdoors of this system don’t perceive what’s going on behind the scenes and insists that his workforce is definitely getting higher. Rome wasn’t inbuilt a day. Blah blah blah.
It is usually vital to notice that star guard Anthony Roy has been out since December 14. No matter. Inexperienced Bay continues to be horrible.
All of this goes to say that the Doug Gottlieb period has been uncommon and it received even weirder on Saturday.
The Phoenix was in Cleveland to face the Vikings. Its head coach didn’t belief that the edges on the Wolstein Heart have been on the correct peak so he sought out a ladder so he might measure for himself.
Apparently @GottliebShow doesn’t like the peak of the edges right here in Cleveland pic.twitter.com/dLfw7xyXHo
— Jon (@pronkville08) January 25, 2025
I don’t know precisely what occurred. I don’t know all the particulars.
Nevertheless, I can confidently say that I’ve by no means seen this sort of prevalence in my a few years of watching faculty hoops. By no means earlier than have I seen an opposing head coach demand that the edges at an opposing gymnasium be measured.
Perhaps Doug Gottlieb had a cause. Perhaps Doug Gottlieb was proper!
Both method, he continues to be the weirdest story in faculty basketball this season.
