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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2640392, member: 199"] Stwainfan - really enjoy your posting here, and like most of you insights. I had seen the MM post already and other defenses of Holly, and there is no question that what happens between the lines in any given game is mostly on the players. BUT ... what good coaching depends on is what happens day to day in practice and in the disciplining of players to either follow the coaching or sit. And teaching them enough so that when you recognize problems coming up in a game, they have the skill and knowledge to allow you to make adjustments in how the team plays. And it is true on both sides of the ball. Nan and I and others point to TN and the inability to play coherent offense against a good zone defense, and that has been true for a long time, and it is a coach's responsibility to make sure players know to populate the short corner and the free throw line area and make sure the ball is constantly moving into and out of those areas stressing the gaps in the zones, and yet that almost never happens in the TN offense. While on the other end, TN defenses consistently get hurt by really poor help and rotations, and you are hard pressed to see any improvements in player defensive technique. Yelling about getting in a stance and getting arms up is about all I see from TN coaches. 20 years ago maybe that was all that was necessary, but with kids getting so little team coaching prior to college now, they need to be taught about footwork and over-playing and steering their player into their help defenders, and rotation, and everything else. There has maybe been over-hyping of TN recruits through the years since 2008, but there has also been an awful lot of talent entering the program, and yet almost every year's senior class has been dubbed 'disappointing' as they graduate. That cannot all be on the players, at some point you have to look at the coaches and assign them the blame for not developing that HS talent. [/QUOTE]

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