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<blockquote data-quote="Second and Chalmers" data-source="post: 1248657" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>I do too, but it's not like Chet had preternatural court vision or anything. He had good defensive instincts (which is definitely a natural talent as well), he was a pretty good ballhandler, and he built those strengths and sanded down his weaknesses into a pugnacious floor general who could impose his will on Big Ten games where he was the least physically gifted guy out there.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Eh, he was a bit of an idiot on the court too. Small sample size and as a true freshman, he might have figured it out eventually, but he was less that the sum of his gifts when he was here.</p><p></p><p>Brian Randle was a good player, but he had the talent to be a great one, that would be another example.</p><p></p><p>So player development is one level, team cohesion is another, and deploying those things in actual games and executing game plans is a third.</p><p></p><p>Throw recruiting in there too, it's all "coaching". Other than perhaps injuries, there's nothing that happens in a college basketball program that doesn't ultimately fall under "coaching".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second and Chalmers, post: 1248657, member: 527609"] I do too, but it's not like Chet had preternatural court vision or anything. He had good defensive instincts (which is definitely a natural talent as well), he was a pretty good ballhandler, and he built those strengths and sanded down his weaknesses into a pugnacious floor general who could impose his will on Big Ten games where he was the least physically gifted guy out there. Eh, he was a bit of an idiot on the court too. Small sample size and as a true freshman, he might have figured it out eventually, but he was less that the sum of his gifts when he was here. Brian Randle was a good player, but he had the talent to be a great one, that would be another example. So player development is one level, team cohesion is another, and deploying those things in actual games and executing game plans is a third. Throw recruiting in there too, it's all "coaching". Other than perhaps injuries, there's nothing that happens in a college basketball program that doesn't ultimately fall under "coaching". [/QUOTE]
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