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Message: [QUOTE="Tufkas, post: 3393733"] I normally sit out these things as criticism of coach can be maddeningly polarizing and shrill. Troll-food for some. Opinions are opinions - they can't be wrong - they just are - agree or disagree. With that, add mine to those voices entirely agreeing with the premise of this thread. If the goal was to win, for me, coaching malpractice with his rotations. If it was to teach, how better to learn than on the floor, competing with bigs far more physical than you. If the goal is motivation, one would hope it works - embarrassing your players in one of a few nationally televised regular season games. Not my cup of tea - horses for courses, I suppose. Usual disclaimers - coach appears to be a remarkable person, without peer in development of those in his program, both professionally and personally. He teaches a sensational brand of basketball; team play and accomplishment above all. Given talent, he and his staff game prep impeccably. All that in comparison with in-game, especially magnified in close games. The many last-minute losses, (in recent post-Nykesha Sales memory anyway), perhaps the Maya steal -> timeout -> Ketia Swanier's coast-to-coaster to beat DePaul 77-76, the lone example of actually winning a game in the final seconds? Given small sample size, however, the record in such is poor, exceptionally so against UConn's extraordinary record overall. A sidenote: counter to the quote in the previous post, "Self-styled sports mavens love to reduce issues to misleading simplicity. Reductio ad absurdem, it is called." It is not. Rather, in common use, "Reductio ad absurdem" is more around taking an opinion, exaggerating it to the point ridiculousness, then arguing against it. Webster's: "1. disproof of a proposition by showing an absurdity to which it leads when carried to its logical conclusion 2[B]. [/B]the carrying of something to an absurd extreme." As it relates, it might be responding to a premise, "Coach's decisions lost the game." with "Well if that's the case, then coach would never have won a single game, let alone 11 championships!" But that's a story for another thread... [/QUOTE]

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