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Message: [QUOTE="EricLA, post: 4247773, member: 26"] A couple thoughts. All IMHO obviously... During the course of the season, every practice, and every game, is an opportunity for the staff to review, push, coach, prod, etc. players to fix the things they are doing wrong and improve on the things they are doing right. Once the regular season is over, Geno generally flips a switch. He realizes that the time for fixing issues/problems is over. Tournaments are a time to encourage and give confidence to the players/team to do all the things they have learned without hammering at them for things they need to improve/fix. I've noticed over the years that he's much more complimentary and encouraging to players come tourney time. So my point is I think there is some of that in the way he approaches the team and the players. I'm not so sure it's that he knows something he's not telling, as much as he's learned over the years that the tourney is not the time to coach to get better, but rather to coach to instill confidence and encouragement. Having said that, he did say that he feels there are many teams out there who are a lot better than people give them credit for. He was spot on. Just look at all the upsets by lower seeded teams. Florida Gulf Coast, Creighton, South Dakota, and probably Gonzaga. That is literally 50% of the games played today thus far. Memo from the "mid-majors" to the P5 - "don't overlook us"... [/QUOTE]