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Penn State 74, Illinois 52 POSTGAME
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<blockquote data-quote="mattcoldagelli" data-source="post: 1374396" data-attributes="member: 11524"><p>And I think here is where people can just end up talking past each other - taken to its extreme ends, literally <em>everything</em> can be called "a coaching issue." And the flipside is that you can absolutely do the same thing for talent and execution. It's how "the coach can't make the free throws!" and "FTs are a mark of great coaching!" get to live in the same universe.</p><p></p><p>The reality is, it's both. We ARE running an offense, but we're leaving a lot of high percentage looks on the table, and missing a good percentage of the ones we get. I don't think Underwood is faking his level of frustration that these things happen in practice and then vanish once the lights come on.</p><p></p><p>What do you do about it? Coach "harder"? Scream more? Then you get roasted for being too hard on everyone and scaring them into playing tentatively (see Weber, Bruce). </p><p></p><p>There's a chicken or egg thing going on where you need to win in order to learn to how to win. We've got trust issues, clearly - not just between players and coaches but between players and each other (and even players trusting themselves). It's bad! But it's also near impossible to sort this into "this is on the coach" and "this is on the players," especially in Year 1. Everything needs to improve.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mattcoldagelli, post: 1374396, member: 11524"] And I think here is where people can just end up talking past each other - taken to its extreme ends, literally [I]everything[/I] can be called "a coaching issue." And the flipside is that you can absolutely do the same thing for talent and execution. It's how "the coach can't make the free throws!" and "FTs are a mark of great coaching!" get to live in the same universe. The reality is, it's both. We ARE running an offense, but we're leaving a lot of high percentage looks on the table, and missing a good percentage of the ones we get. I don't think Underwood is faking his level of frustration that these things happen in practice and then vanish once the lights come on. What do you do about it? Coach "harder"? Scream more? Then you get roasted for being too hard on everyone and scaring them into playing tentatively (see Weber, Bruce). There's a chicken or egg thing going on where you need to win in order to learn to how to win. We've got trust issues, clearly - not just between players and coaches but between players and each other (and even players trusting themselves). It's bad! But it's also near impossible to sort this into "this is on the coach" and "this is on the players," especially in Year 1. Everything needs to improve. [/QUOTE]
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