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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 4373680, member: 1220"] I would also say that Pat was also over rated due to the lack of quality coaching in the womans game. They would be considered average in todays coaching field. C. V. Stringer is an example of the the type of coaches that were able to be very successful during that era based purely on recruitment talent. She just had a lot of talent, threw the basketball at them and said go to it. The level of coaching was very substandard then. It was an era when most womens basketball coaches were just high profile ex players. Being an ex player does not necessarily translate to being an elite coach. It was not until Title Nine put more emphasis on the womans game and enough time passed allowing it to impact salaries that drew better coaches to WCBB. In the mens game the better coaches were generally not star players in college. Greg Popovich is the perfect example. The qualities of coaches are often linked to the tree the are the product of. There was not much of a tree in WCBB or the womans game in general. The womans game has undergone a drastic change, not only it its style but the level and skill set of its players. Most of the womans coaches do not have the experience to adjust to take full advantage of those changees. Coaching is a filtering down system that has yet to manifest much in the womans game. Just the type of players in the High School and AAU feeder system has had a huge impact on the womens college and professional games. Even the most knowledgable college fans on this site are not that aware of what has happened to the feeder systems both in respect to players and coaches. The level of talant and already developed players has expanded to the point where their availability is not exclusive to just a few high profile programs. The same is true of coaches. There are some very good male coaches that decide to coach in the womand game, which is something that didn't happen just a decade and a half ago. Geno was an exception and we see the impact it had. The coaches at that time were purely the product of the womans game they experienced as players which was not reflective of the rapidly changing dynamic of womans basketball. The ignorance displayed in Mo'ni Davis basketball level displayed by many on this site and in the basketball world, including her own coaches and advisors speak to that. With the basketball track she was on, she had a snow balls chance in hell of even getting a D1 scholarship let along being recruited by a top program. There were just too many players who spent the year round developing skills already way ahead of her. Being a good athlete is just not enough anymore. Her own parants and coaches were totally clueless in that respect. I believe that the time Becky Hammond spent under Gregg Popovich will reap enormous rewards in years to come in respect to establishing a major Womans Basketball Tree and its resujlting branches. One can already see that Hammond is in league of her own in the WNBA in respect to coaching. She will impact Chelsea Gray, who has the potential to take womanss basketball coaching to another level as well. People on this site will not like this, but time has already passed Geno by. He was the best for his time, but the game has moved on. [/QUOTE]

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