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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 4442108, member: 199"] There are so many reasons one can state: 1. Players - can't do it without recruiting the players that are both skilled and willing to be coached. And the right players for the program. 2. Teaching - players who come to Uconn and stay 4 years leave as much better players. They expand their game and their knowledge of basketball theory and execution. 3. Discipline - 'putting in the work' and not being allowed to slide not in a practice, not in a training session, and certainly not in a game. 4. Expectation - raising the goal for each player individually, and for the team as a whole, and giving them the [U]instruction[/U] necessary to push that goal even further. 5. Vision - you can't correct what you can't see and analyze. Geno and CD can both identify what is wrong in practice and games both individually and in a team sense and figure out how to correct it. That is not all that common. 6. Culture - creating an environment where every player is not only a teammate but also becomes a coach to their teammates. Coaches cannot do it all, and the 'culture' at Uconn is carried as much by the players as the coaches. "Tradition' as used in sports is really just the more meaningless outward show of the culture of a team. 7. Support - creating the structure to provide for the personal needs of the players - emotional, spiritual, physical, academic - all the things outside the lines of the court. 8. Staff - creating a coaching and support staff that all have defined responsibilities and growth opportunities making it easy for them to buy in to the program. 9. System - Geno has created offensive and defensive systems that are flexible so once learned they are adaptable to the skills of the current players and the demands of the various opponents. It maximizes strengths and covers for weaknesses of the players on the court. And I am sure I left out a lot of other things. It is not one thing that has created the longevity unprecedented in WCBB history but the combination of all the things Geno and CD have built their program on. [/QUOTE]

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