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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 3372023, member: 7631"] I agree with what you said. I'll add to it: A modification of point 2: You don't need 5-star recruits, you need the RIGHT 5-star recruits. I think this may be the biggest thing that separates Geno from the other great coaches in WCBB. Not every high-school basketball player wants to play for him, but I think most do. But I think he passes on, what, 70-90% of blue chip high schoolers because they won't fit in his program. One thing I've heard him say specifically is that he won't take anyone who isn't a good and willing passer. CD once said that she noticed Kelly Faris when she took a charge. They don't coach effort, which means they don't want kids who aren't self-motivated. That's certainly harder to evaluate than passing and playing defense (unless your name is Diana, Stewie, Maya, or Paige). So I think in that area Holly had two problems. I'm not sure she recognized that a kid being a good player didn't necessarily translate into the kid being a good player in Holly's program. The other is that I don't know that Holly really had a vision for just what her system was and how a kid would fit in. So you had kids with different styles trying to mesh into a team coached by someone who may not have had a clear idea of what her team's style was supposed to be. The coach has to make the team fit her, not the other way 'round. And she clearly WAS trying to coach effort. [/QUOTE]