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<blockquote data-quote="MC06" data-source="post: 1587106" data-attributes="member: 639089"><p>The bolded is not how sports work. If being an excellent decision maker was just a matter of listening to your coaches, then the vast majority of players would be excellent decision makers.</p><p></p><p>You don’t want to coach Curbelo’s aggressiveness out of him, because that is what makes him special. You just want to coach him to be able to pick and choose the right opportunities to be aggressive. In a game like basketball, that is dependent on Curbelo being able to see and instantaneously process many different factors during the chaos of the game. Developing that ability at a new level of play takes many months, if not years. Expecting him to just get it after three months and 19 games is not realistic.</p><p></p><p>Underwood’s challenge will be managing minutes in a must-win game and balancing the need for a spark from Curbelo (like we needed early in this game) against the need to not waste any possessions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MC06, post: 1587106, member: 639089"] The bolded is not how sports work. If being an excellent decision maker was just a matter of listening to your coaches, then the vast majority of players would be excellent decision makers. You don’t want to coach Curbelo’s aggressiveness out of him, because that is what makes him special. You just want to coach him to be able to pick and choose the right opportunities to be aggressive. In a game like basketball, that is dependent on Curbelo being able to see and instantaneously process many different factors during the chaos of the game. Developing that ability at a new level of play takes many months, if not years. Expecting him to just get it after three months and 19 games is not realistic. Underwood’s challenge will be managing minutes in a must-win game and balancing the need for a spark from Curbelo (like we needed early in this game) against the need to not waste any possessions. [/QUOTE]
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