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OT: Geno Rips His Team

jibsey said:
Pulled the starters, they won easily anyway. Talked worst effort and wished fans could get their money back. Refreshing.
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In all seriousness, what does that have to do with anything?

UConn women’s basketball doesn’t translate to the real world.

I guess the sarcastic coach bouncing between killing the fanbase and then saying their should get their money back is entertaining to a degree - but there isn’t anything to be learned or copied.
 
whaler11 said:
In all seriousness, what does that have to do with anything?

UConn women’s basketball doesn’t translate to the real world.

I guess the sarcastic coach bouncing between killing the fanbase and then saying their should get their money back is entertaining to a degree - but there isn’t anything to be learned or copied.
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Ollie can absolutely learn a thing or two about not excepting mediocrity
 
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whaler11 said:
LOL - now you are an Ollie critic?

I promise you the problem with the men's basketball team isn't that Ollie accepts mediocrity.
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I wouldn’t label myself an Ollie “critic”. And I still don’t think he’s Diaco. He has some good qualities as a coach. But he ain’t getting the job done. I just call it how I see it. Opinions change. Only an idiot can’t have his mind changed when presented with overwhelming evidence. And there isn’t ONE problem. But Praising your team after an overtime win against Monmouth is excepting mediocrity. Yelling at players, being confrontational and being a hard a** does not equate to expecting excellence
 
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The fans should get a refund if they had to watch subs play due to a Geno hissy fit but they won't get a dime back. It's amazing how creative you can get with 11 rings.
 
jibsey said:
Pulled the starters, they won easily anyway. Talked worst effort and wished fans could get their money back. Refreshing.
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jibs he takes out the best 6 players and plays kids who are rated higher than the other teams kids on the court. It's not the same world, and they were up 20 and he was pissed - easy for him to play that game.
 
The only thing worse than people using Geno to attack Ollie are the responses from people who are insecure in their manhood. Leadership and human nature apply to every team sport and every team based profession. Winners win, no matter what their game or profession.
 
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Paesano said:
The only thing worse than people using Geno to attack Ollie are the responses from people who are insecure in their manhood. Leadership and human nature apply to every team sport and every team based profession. Winners win, no matter what their game or profession.
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Sorry no. This is absurd.

There is a reason why the winners in men’s college basketball don’t do things like this and it’s not because none of them can coach as well as Geno.
 
whaler11 said:
Sorry no. This is absurd.

There is a reason why the winners in men’s college basketball don’t do things like this and it’s not because none of them can coach as well as Geno.
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What? Calhoun had done this, Popovich has done this at the NBA level. This happens Geno is an objectively HOF level basketball coach regardless of gender. People who try to slight him are silly.
 
polycom said:
What? Calhoun had done this, Popovich has done this at the NBA level. This happens Geno is an objectively HOF level basketball coach regardless of gender. People who try to slight him are silly.
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I guess Calhoun wasn't a winner in whaler's eyes.
 
He has been criticizing his reserves for weeks. Enough for a non WBB watcher like me to hear about it.

This was an excuse to let the B team know that they will be called upon and to not rely of the stars to do all the work.
 
I can’t wait to see the D-1 men’s boxscore of a game where the coach up big early decided to embarrass his second string by playing them the majority of the game and then spend the postgame tearing them apart.
 
mauconnfan said:
jibs he takes out the best 6 players and plays kids who are rated higher than the other teams kids on the court. It's not the same world, and they were up 20 and he was pissed - easy for him to play that game.
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Maybe. But I watched Roy Williams do it at Kansas in the first half of a game. He had walk-ons and some other decent bench players in to finish the half. Over 10 minutes. They were down big at the half. Starters came in for the second half and crushed the other team. This UConn team had needed that approach on at least three occasions. If you are losing anyway, make it a teachable moment.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
Maybe. But I watched Roy Williams do it at Kansas in the first half of a game. He had walk-ons and some other decent bench players in to finish the half. Over 10 minutes. They were down big at the half. Starters came in for the second half and crushed the other team. This UConn team had needed that approach on at least three occasions. If you are losing anyway, make it a teachable moment.
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Losing? He was just screwing around with a big lead to embarrass the second string not the starters.

Does anyone actually know what happened?
 
whaler11 said:
I can’t wait to see the D-1 men’s boxscore of a game where the coach up big early decided to embarrass his second string by playing them the majority of the game and then spend the postgame tearing them apart.
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No one is arguing Geno is a nice guy to his players when he is trying to win. It isn't about the players it's about the fans...fragile fans wouldn't be able to handle it in the men's game. Fans would call the coach a bully this isn't about Geno this is about you as a fan.
 
whaler11 said:
Losing? He was just screwing around with a big league to embarrass the second string not the starters.

Does anyone actually know what happened?
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I'm talking about the implied suggestion by the original post. It would be valid for the men on a few occasions. When the team has nothing, sit them all and make them watch.
 
Bryan Lord said:
The fans should get a refund if they had to watch subs play due to a Geno hissy fit but they won't get a dime back. It's amazing how creative you can get with 11 rings.
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They weren’t pulled because they were bad. It was to give others a chance to be productive enough to be counted on in future games. Unlike KO, Geno has talent on the bench. He just doesn’t trust them enough to play them. Now he has to because the injuries are mounting.
 
whaler11 said:
What he did in last night’s game can’t be done in men’s college basketball - so comparing the two is stupid.
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Except when it has, you mean. You were just given two examples by HOF coaches.
 
polycom said:
No one is arguing Geno is a nice guy to his players when he is trying to win. It isn't about the players it's about the fans...fragile fans wouldn't be able to handle it in the men's game. Fans would call the coach a bully this isn't about Geno this is about you as a fan.
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That doesnt make a single whit of sense.
 
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Waquoit said:
Except when it has, you mean. You were just given two examples by HOF coaches.
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I was not given an example of what Geno did last night. You won’t find one either.
 
We had all watched Calhoun in the first 30 seconds of a game call a timeout, pull a player, and rip them a new _____ in front of 15,00 fans. Announcers had a great time with this poking fun while explaining why he did it, but don’t for a second think that the other players on the team didn’t get the message. That could be them and no one wants to be called out. Of course the team circumstances and talent levels are different.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I'm talking about the implied suggestion by the original post. It would be valid for the men on a few occasions. When the team has nothing, sit them all and make them watch.
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That’s the issue. What’s implied in the OP isn’t what happened.
 
I have heard enough from Geno interviews and what other players have said about how he operates to appreciate he is uniquely good at what he does. He's exacting, has total command of what he wants done, can take concepts and makes them simple to understand, and enforces his will and standards every second in practice, in game and otherwise. He's the best at what he does. KO is nowhere near that level of coaching mastery.
 
jibsey said:
We had all watched Calhoun in the first 30 seconds of a game call a timeout, pull a player, and rip them a new _____ in front of 15,00 fans. Announcers had a great time with this poking fun while explaining why he did it, but don’t for a second think that the other players on the team didn’t get the message. That could be them and no one wants to be called out. Of course the team circumstances and talent levels are different.
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Ok now go figure out what Geno actually did last night.
 
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