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Message: [QUOTE="blackbird, post: 2530814, member: 1782"] You could. When I meant strategy I meant more "Xs and Os" stuff, rather than the long term strategy of team building. I actually do think Ollie has some decent plays, despite our weaknesses we can stop bigger players etc... For whatever reason, it doesn't seem as if Ollie values shooting. Which is ridiculous. I thought the defense and rebounding would get better as the season progressed. And I know Ollie wasn't a good shooter himself. It's just such an essential aspect of basketball. Have people who can shoot, and give them good shots. Larrier and Vital are mediocre. If Vital, Adams, and Anderson are committed enough to be running practices themselves at 11 at night, then I imagine they're working in the summer too...which means someone just isn't correcting Adam's shot, or getting in Vital's ear about good shots. I like defensive first teams, but when you can't score at all..your defense suffers just from frustration. And when the team is so poorly constructed, it's really really hard to score. Regardless, I'm not arguing that Ollie isn't at fault here. He's the coach, obviously if you don't have shooters, and there's very little improvement in needed skills, that's on the coach. I just disagree that he's unable to motivate them (they play hard. Which was my point). In fact, that's easily his best attribute as a coach. [/QUOTE]