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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2168463, member: 199"] I agree that much of what Kim does on the technicals front is intentional and she has her own style and she is a very smart woman. That said, for some time now I have thought that her emotional fire on the sideline is great when her team is playing well or making a big comeback and the team feeds on her energy, but ... when things are not going well it is a detriment as it seems to distract her from actually coaching and making adjustments, and it seems to add to the teams disarray. Whether a calmer Kim would actually change the outcome is unknowable, but a manic Kim seems to create more pressure and anxiety within her players. And I also think any coach that goes as berserk as Kim does over every play in a tight game ends up simply being tuned out by the refs so they don't even notice the times she has a valid point. She got that famous coat throwing T in a very unspecific moment for example - if instead she had waited until a particularly bad call and nailed the ref who made the call, she might actually have gotten them all thinking and gotten her team a 'make-up' call in the next few minutes, or made them think before making a similar call later. Geno used to have more 'moments' on the sideline than he does now, but they were all pretty specific and he seldom rode officials constantly or was histrionic on the sideline for a whole quarter, half, or game. Now he may have half a dozen outbursts a season, and I don't remember the last 'T'. [/QUOTE]

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