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Message: [QUOTE="Mr. French, post: 5209294, member: 2292"] I understand your points, but what I don’t understand is why you consider every failing of every player only on Hurley. Even when he plays a guy and the guy does nothing, you chalk it up to unknown and unprovable and unseen factors such as “Hurley isn’t telling him to be aggressive” or “Hurley hasn’t helped him develop his handle” meanwhile you’re acting like the players have no say. I think you know this…but it’s way more on a player to produce than the coach to teach him how to. The coach needs to give him confidence (he has, publicly numerous times) and the kid has to produce. The coach has to help him develop (there’s no way I buy the idea that he hasn’t been working with the players on specific skill sets) and then the kid has to DO IT. Some kids have development plans, and put in the work, and are given opportunities, but they just don’t develop as well as others. You can’t just say for every scenario “Coach didn’t develop him.” It’s lazy. If he produces, it doesn’t matter if Hurley hates him, he’s going to play. If he doesn’t produce, it doesn’t matter if he’s the greatest kid and practices unbelievably, he can’t play. To your point about them not being relied on as starters, it’s not the same as last year. We needed Diarra and Alleyne and Joey to be bench contributors , and they WERE. There’s no scenario where we know how the board reacts to those guys not producing in their bench roles, because they all did. If they didn’t, it’s possible those teams don’t win it anll and then you’re wrong, they would be the reason we lost. But no one knows because they did. This year’s role players, whom are the topics of this discussion, have not. [/QUOTE]

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