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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 4500149, member: 7631"] I think the disagreement here is arising from different interpretations of the phrase. There's a lot of room between "there's nothing I can do about anything" (and "I have to solve every problem." I interpret "it is what it is" as "there are some things I can do nothing about, and I need to accept those things." Geno adopting an "it is what it is" attitude doesn't mean he's just going to stop trying to coach kids up. John Wooden's entire philosophy was that playing your best was the goal -- whether you won or lost was half up to the other team. He was happier when his team played up to its potential but lost to a superior opponent than when his team won in a sloppy rout of a cupcake. [/QUOTE]