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Message: [QUOTE="msf22b, post: 3092541, member: 656"] Actually Coco, one can find good BB fundamentals up and down the breadth of the country...and not only in the tops teams Effective switching defenses, offenses that highlight a team's strengths; the Geno effect is going great guns. He lobbied for better coaching and he's got it. Surely not everyone, but the sprouts are visible. Which leads us back to poor UTenn...I disagree with Nan on this one (rare). Hard to believe how little players improved and how disappointing their professional careers were...Do you think a 14/15 year old doesn't notice that. Poor Bashaara Graves for example; such a fine, talented kid...withered away. I don't understand how they get the class of kids they do. Holly (in her public pronouncements) seems to emphasize unfocused brute effort, something she understands rather than skills and/or technique...which she doesn't. At times her pressing D is effective...but it's not based on sound fundamentals once the team breaks into the offensive zone, wide open lanes to the basket appear. And let's not forget, this team is chuck full of MacD All-Americans. Their haphazard play must be enormously frustrating to them. There are lots of folks who would love the chance to turn that program around...We'll know in the next few days whether the admin has been pushed far enough in that direction. [/QUOTE]