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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 2080348, member: 37"] Which points. In one paragraph he points out that they were put in a position not to succeed (I'm assuming he was pointing to KO). In another he cites injuries impacting defense. Seems contradictory. In another he points to stars but his analysis does not discuss positional players. From the newbies I would expect this but he follows football and understands positional players and how missing positional players is key to the overall functioning of the team. The intricacies of following a football team are far more difficult than basketball and yet hawk's analysis with regards to this basketball team are superficial at best. The only contention I can remotely consider is why did everything seem to go wrong? Why did so many players miss so many shots? But even this point loses validity because players were extremely inconsistent. You'd get good games from different players throughout the season. If KO was in some way unable to motivate his players than you would not have expected games where Vital did well and Jackson disappeared and vice versa. The inconsistency is more likely something about the players than the coaches and that doesn't necessarily imply the players are anything but human. I'm sure the horrible start to the season caused them to lose confidence in themselves and that the injuries to two starters exacerbated the problem. But even with this explanation I, like [USER=1414]@HuskyHawk[/USER], cannot believe how so much went so wrong over this season. I just don't buy his razor. That it's on the coaches. Sometimes life deals us blows that are outside our control. I know many people who went through a period of one bad thing happening to them after another and they were blameless for all of it. There is only so much that is under our control whether we like it or not. [/QUOTE]

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