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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4601581, member: 833"] Complacency is fake confidence, but whether in basketball or just about anything else, I will take real confidence over "proving the doubters wrong" every time. There are some coaches that were just losers. Coaches like Travis Steele, Steve Lappas, and Tim Welsh were just losers. They knew their X's and O's, and had talent at times during their tenure. Heck, Steele put together a great team at Xavier. But I could tell watching those teams that they were going to choke more often than they weren't. They expected to lose. Xavier would fall apart in close games, often because they would degenerate to hero ball because they didn't trust their teammates. It is hard to uncoach that once it gets ingrained in a team, because I think Xavier did it in the Sweet 16 this year against Texas. Calipari often coaches scared, which is how a guy that has had amazing talent during his tenure at Kentucky only has ONE National Championship to show for it, and no Final Fours since 2015. He has actually missed the Tournament twice in the last 9 seasons since he won it in 2012. An extreme example of the other end, where a coach just oozes confidence even though he isn't a great coach is Mack Brown. I think he is an idiot in game management, and I have listened to interviews of his former players and none of them sing his praises as a game coach, even if they like him personally. But it is impossible to argue with his success. And before you say "well anyone can win at Texas", Brown's last three seasons at UT were 8, 9 and 8 wins. Since he left, UT has won 8 games twice and 10 games once, and every other season has been worse than Mack Brown's last year in Austin. I am a big fan of confidence, and I want a team to expect to win. [/QUOTE]

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