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Message: [QUOTE="JRRRJ, post: 4262946, member: 1303"] The hook should not be a teaching moment in the post-season. Geno should have already told the assembled troops that this is the one-and-done time. That that means they must be focussed and ready to contribute when they are inserted into a game. That failure to perform will mean removal in pretty short order, and that if others are performing well they might not get back in that game. If he does this, then the players need to listen to and believe those things. (Apparently Geno claims Caroline's the only one who listens.) And act on them: be focussed and ready to play whenever called on. If they do listen, then being taken out then is not seen as punishment, nor a message, nor a comment on the value of their contributions that got the team here. It's a move that is intended to improve the team's likelihood of surviving [I]this game[/I] and advancing. [/QUOTE]