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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5322119, member: 12088"] I agree with you completely. This is what I meant by “the scout.” Some analysts talk about him in similar terms to the way Bill Belichek was always described as “taking away the opposing team’s best weapon.” I think Geno does focus on this, in effect making opposing coaches win with their second or third best weapon. The thing is, as good as Geno may be at game planning in this sense, it doesn’t really distinguish him from his peers. They all do this, or at least try to. Whatever game planning he comes up with depends entirely on his players being able to, or in my idiom having the will to put it into effect. Consider the ND game from last season. The scout on Hidalgo was to make her go to her left. Kaitlyn KK and Ash did exactly this and held her to 4 points on 2 for 6 shooting. That was masterful game planning. Unfortunately, they didn’t close out on her at the perimeter quickly enough, went under screens and missed a couple switches and Hannah hit 6 of 11 three point attempts. I think she finished with 29 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists. In effect, she torched the master plan with a double double. Of course, lots of mitigating circumstances might be cited — it was early in the season, Azzi was out, we shot abysmally from 3, Jana got 4 fouls in 15 minutes, Liatu King got an easy whistle on over-the-back fouls, etc. Whatever the case may be, a game plan went awry because the players weren’t able to implement it. By the end of the season, game plans didn’t go awry anymore. [/QUOTE]

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