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Message: [QUOTE="Littlemin, post: 3460682, member: 10363"] Frankly, I don’t understand the point in your comment. People make connections with each other for a myriad of reasons. Coaching is not an exact science and there is no “formula” for getting through to a player, it certainly does not happen because of a title, be it head coach or position coach. Neither does a player necessarily learn and improve by adjusting to a coach, I don’t even know what that means. Maybe you mean a player must be receptive to learning and that I agree with but that does not ensure the learning will take place. People generally can learn from others via some kind of mutually respectful connection, be it intellectual, personal, what have you. Coaching, or any teaching or managing of others for that matter, is essentially a people skill and different people connect with each other for different, sometimes undefinable reasons. That was all I was trying to say. In this case, if Elliott has had the assumed impact on Ono‘s game in such a short time, I would assume they were able to make a connection together that just didn’t happen with the other coaches for whatever reason, but I am sure not from a lack of trying by all parties. [/QUOTE]