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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 3209451, member: 9403"] To clarify, I didn't mean it pejoratively, and I also didn't mean to suggest he's not an excellent coach. He is, and he's one of my favorites in the country. However: he lets Sabrina get away with stuff in games that Geno wouldn't, because he's just not as much of a type-a hardass, and he's much more "they will be who they will be" about his players. Remember when Ionescu had her meltdown after fouling out in the loss against UCLA and stormed into the locker room before the game was over? I cannot even imagine the wrath she would have faced if her coach was Geno. Tara also would have read her the riot act. But Graves took it totally in stride. Same when Ionescu was on the bench but took the ball anyway and attempted to shoot a three that resulted in a team technical for Oregon. "That's just Sabrina." Indeed, Graves has [URL='https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2019/04/oregon-coach-kelly-graves-initial-thoughts-on-facing-baylor-in-womens-final-four.html']self-described his approach[/URL] as being, quite frankly, very West Coast hippie-like (and I say this as someone who grew up there, so I know!): Again, I can't fathom a world where Geno wears a "calmness" bracelet. Doesn't mean he doesn't trust his team, and doesn't mean he isn't often calm, but that's just not Geno's style. Nor Tara's, Mulkey's, or Muffet's. NONE of them are wearing calmness bracelets in this life... And let me clarify one more time: I don't think one kind of approach to coaching is categorically better than the other. They're different, which is why I said I think most recruits will clearly fit much better with one coach or the other, because their styles are so different. But they're both awesome people. If I could take three coaches out to drinks, Graves and Geno would be two of them. However, I *do* think Geno is the better coach, and I think pretty much everyone who isn't sporting electric yellow and green around here thinks that. Peace! [/QUOTE]

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