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Every top team boasts one or two brilliantly talented kids who are natural scorers, who know how to put the ball in the hoop. For the most part, these are skills that cannot be taught...they are mostly the result of inborn talent. Every program, to be successful, needs some of those. Geno, being a great recruiter, will always have his fair share of those, one can bank on it. To evaluate his skills as a coach, or anyone else's, one must look to the other end of the court. We all have a tendency to be dazzled by great offense and overlook great defense. The latter is not a natural skill...it is learned. Defensive game planning is not the natural domain of the players. Head coaches and their staffs do that, some way better than others.
For me, the most mind-boggling statistic of the NCAA tourney is this: UConn played six games en route to the title. Three of those six wins came against teams seeded #1 in their section of the bracket. Do the arithmetic. Those six opponents averaged exactly 54 points per game! If you wish to know what great coaching looks like, stop there!!
For me, the most mind-boggling statistic of the NCAA tourney is this: UConn played six games en route to the title. Three of those six wins came against teams seeded #1 in their section of the bracket. Do the arithmetic. Those six opponents averaged exactly 54 points per game! If you wish to know what great coaching looks like, stop there!!