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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2112424, member: 199"] I agree about 'over her head' - from the first year she got the job and talked about how she was just trying to follow Pats formula and do everything exactly the same, I knew that she was the classic 'useful assistant' given the reins - I am sure Pat relied on Holly for a lot of things that made her life flow smoothly - organizing schedules and posting practice times, and managing the staff, but I sincerely doubt coaching players was a big part of it - counseling them, sure, especially after one of Pat's famous disciplinary actions. I imagined Holly sitting there the first year with her notebook that recorded every practice that had been held for the past 20 years and going, OK, this is day 15 of the preseason, and on day 15 we always work on pick and roll, so we start practice with this drill, and then the next drill is ______, and then we do ______. And then going out and spending the allotted 30 minutes on each drill, and after 2 hours going back to her office and checking what the Pat's schedule called for on day 16. And then watching her coach in games it seemed like she had a stop watch and clicker to record shots by each player, and was following the same concept - we have an eight player rotation so: at the five minute mark, I substitute my bench guard into the game; when my starting forward has taken 7 shots I substitute her out; when we have scored 20 points I call a time out - because none of the moves she made seemed to have any relationship to the game flow or how any individual player was performing. Invariably one of her players would get a hot hand, and in the next minute she would be on the bench getting her prescribed two minutes of rest, or the team would finally be playing well and on a little run and she would call a time out. And I truly cannot imagine what the coaching staff meetings are like - if any of them had an new idea on something they could try (given their long tenure, I'm not sure any of them would actually have a new idea) I can just imagine the rest of them checking notes and going 'Well Pat never did that, I don't think we should.' Harsh - maybe. But it never has seemed that Holly actually sees what is happening on the court - I mean she sees the score and she recognizes when her team is scoring and rebounding, but she doesn't seem to recognize why they are playing well or playing poorly. If a defender is in her stance with her hands up, she is defending well, even if she is never providing help, and getting caught on every screen and cut. If a player makes a shot, it was a good shot, if she misses it was a bad one. [/QUOTE]

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