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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3709179, member: 199"] Not sure it is correct to lump Holly and Pat together. Pat was a head coach who create a superior winning program with her own style, while Holly stated in her first few years she was going to copy everything Pat did. I never got the impression that Holly ever had an original thought and I had this mental image of her going home each night and studying her copious notebooks from years as Pat's assistant to determine what the schedule should be for the next day's practice with no reference to her current team - 'lets see, this will be day 17 of practice so that means after our standard warm-up, we do twenty minutes of rebounding practice, followed by 30 minutes of pick and roll, followed by ....' I agree that TN had under Pat very limited offensive concepts and the running BY term for it was 'chuck it and rebound'. Holly's teams struggled even with that concept. I also think that the landscape of recruits changed dramatically over Pat's and Geno's career in terms of how players practiced and played in HS and for AAU - the idea of rigorous team practices has faded, and so players are less adept at playing as a team and more of any coach's teaching has to be focused on team dynamics and team concepts. 80s and 90s recruits probably had a better handle on basic team offensive concepts. And Geno was taking over a truly dreadful program and the easiest way to improve such a program with limited talent is to instill toughness and defensive intensity. You need talent to consistently make wide open jump shots, you just need toughness and intensity to defend against giving open jump shots. We have seen a lot of teams in the BE and the AAC and in other conference as well improve significantly by increasing their toughness. C.Viv has made a career at numerous schools on the strength of her defenses. [/QUOTE]

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