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Message: [QUOTE="SCGamecock, post: 2008431, member: 6132"] Sure. Nah. You don't even actually believe this so I won't waste my time. Nice TEAM stat.. but it doesn't tell the entire story. Don't forget about all of the little things Coates does that you won't find in a box score... like her ability to alter shots, etc.. Again, she doesn't have to do this... she's excellent elsewhere. If I have a player that's superb on the low block (and rarely beaten there) why would I move her away from her bread and butter and put her somewhere else to take a lower percentage shot when I know I'm basically guaranteed to get the higher percentage shot? To me that's bad coaching... heck no, I would want Coates to live down low and get those putbacks. I would want her to be really good at her bread and butter... and she is. I see this when other post players are brought up as well... somebody will post something like "well she doesn't shoot threes" or "she's really only good at putbacks".... Why does she need to complicate things when the other team has nobody that's capable of stopping her at doing the things she's actually SUPPOSED to be doing? LOL We live in an age where people are obsessed with centers scoring facing the basket. We must realize that a center scoring facing the basket isn't a necessity, its not a part of the job duties.. it's really a bonus. If you have it.. GREAT... if not, fine, but you still need to be really good at being a CENTER. You need to be a force down low, you need to be aggressive at the basket, you need to get those rebounds, you need to be ready for the putback, you need to be able to pass from the paint to a guard on the wings, you need to block shots consistently, you need to run that dang floor at times... Coates does ALL of these things and MORE better than most at her position. I just don't think it should reflect negatively on Coates that she can't (or hasn't shown that she can) do the things that Tina Charles does (who's a professional player and doesn't have to worry about things like.. school, for instance). If we look at Coates through the lens of being a center and doing what a center needs to do then there would be no argument as to why people like her game. Instead, we compare her to every stretch-5 that's ever existed. I appreciate your post. You make good points.. but we mostly disagree. [/QUOTE]

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