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Message: [QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 2477719, member: 250"] In yesterday's Courant article on the run up to 1000 a pretty heady guy and friend of Geno's expressed himself and it was a second reading this morning that drew me to a statement that really puzzles and alarms me. It's highlighted, in context, below. "There’s a lot of things that make him a great coach,” said Bruno, Auriemma’s assistant on the Olympic team in 2012 and 2016. “I just think his ability to collect and put groups of people together. He recruits ‘total package’ people.. … That’s just one aspect of it. He and his staff are really diligent in how hard they work to get their players better. [B]They are a program that works on skill development. There aren’t many of those in the country. [/B]They work to get the players, individually, better at their skills. And then, collectively, they know how to play on all sides of the basketball.” How the Hades do you call yourself a coach and not strive to develope your players skills? For years now we have heard how skills development has faded at the high school level, a process accelerated by AAU ball and the dizzying number of games/tournaments. Setting screens, how to move off the ball, heck the layup, how to move your feet on defense, how to effectively pass (and when), etc etc . This statement by Bruno... well, it is pretty damning about the health of WCBB coaching. [/QUOTE]