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Doug Gottlieb is not having a lot of success in his first season as a college basketball head coach and national radio host. Green Bay dropped to 2-8 with a blowout loss to Cleveland State on Saturday.
As the Phoenix struggled to get anything going on offense, their best player sat on the bench yet again.
Gottlieb, 48, was hired back in May. He is trying to do what has never been done before while balancing two very different careers at the same time and looks absolutely exhausted by his grueling schedule. To make matters worse, his team is off to a horrendous start. Green Bay has wins against Western Illinois and Southern Indiana University Edwardsville. It has blowout losses to Oklahoma State, St. Thomas, Providence, Evansville, Ohio State and now Cleveland State.
This most recent result is the worst. The Vikings went up by 13 at halftime and closed things out with a nine-point margin of victory during the second half to win by 22.
To be fair to Doug Gottlieb, the game didn’t even make it on his calendar for the month of December. He posted the following social commentary on Dec. 3, neglecting to mention that his team will play seven games over the next four weeks. The post was a joke, yes, but it was extremely tone deaf.
It’s the most wonderful time…. pic.twitter.com/gatlflz5lv
— Doug Gottlieb (@GottliebShow) December 3, 2024
Green Bay lost each of its next two games after its head coach posted about not working. Ironic isn’t it?
The Doug Gottlieb era is wild!
Losing is one thing. Losing while your best player rides the bench is another. It was the latter (again) on Saturday.
Senior guard Anthony Roy currently leads the entire country in scoring with 28 points per game. Doug Gottlieb took him out of lineup last week and has not played him since. Here was his explanation for the decision:
"He's either gonna do it my way or he's gonna play less or less." – @GottliebShow on his leading scorer, Anthony Roy.
— Joey DuBois (@joeyduboistv) November 30, 2024
Roy went 6/19 for 20 points in @gbphoenixmbb's 72-66 loss to Campbell. Including today's stats he's at 27.3 PPG on 50.9 FG% and 44.3 3FG% for the year. pic.twitter.com/bokjNi3n5K
Gottlieb kept Anthony Roy on the bench for all 40 minutes of Saturday’s home loss to Cleveland State.
At the half @gbphoenixmbb down 37-24 to Cleveland State.
— Joey DuBois (@joeyduboistv) December 7, 2024
Anthony Roy, the leading scorer in the nation, hasn’t left the bench. pic.twitter.com/U2aePINvNj
Meanwhile, the Phoenix were out-scored by 22 points… Perhaps it is a good idea to play the nation’s leading scorer instead of holding him hostage to undefined rules on how to play Doug Gottlieb’s way?