Pretty sure he wasn't hurt in the sense of an injury. He was cramping up. After his initial burst he looked tired. Then came the cramps. Practically everything he did was in the first 14 minutes of the game, after which he was a net negative for them. And that was as a direct result of how we played him, not just some coincidence.
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Texas Tech 84, Illinois 78 Postgame
I don’t coach, so I’m not qualified to say like most people on the internet, but maybe a timeout just to tell the freshman to take a breath and give them a smile? Opposite of yelling at them100% and it’s just differences in coaching philosophy. Nate Oats ranted last year that if the adjustment is to play harder, players need to figure that out on the fly. You don’t call timeouts to scream about effort, you can do that from the sideline without stopping the game and giving your opponent a chance to add to their game plan while you complain to your team about something they should already know.
“Call a timeout and tell them to play harder? You call a timeout and make adjustments. I’m not gonna call a timeout and tell them to play harder.”
-Nate Oats