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Message: [QUOTE="Hoophound, post: 2462777, member: 271"] Great coaches take small teams and run circles around big teams. Great coaches take big teams and overpower small teams. Great coaches make decent talent great talent. Bad coaches make small teams look small and big teams look slow. Bad coaches make talented teams look untalented. You need to make a judgement as to whether or not it is the coach or the talent. My read is that our players are pretty good. Jalen, Terry, Christian and Anderson certainly are. Cobb is a fairly talented D1 level center. Diarra has a world of potential and lots of energy. Carlton and DO are on par with our second and third string centers of the past and Carlton should develop nicely. We need Gilbert and some minimal help from the freshmen, but this isn’t a bad team. I want to be fair to KO and the players. We have so many new pieces and the injuries have been brutal. However, I can’t honestly say that AG makes this team that much better or that Cobb back in the mix will suddenly start winning us games. I wish we were slugging it out with the better teams and losing nail biters so I felt more optimistic. Instead, it seems like EVERYONE can challenge us and real power programs can easily dominate us. That isn’t a good sign. We are a sloppy team. We throw casual passes, we take bad shots and we turn the ball over. We just seem lost, and that’s coaching. [/QUOTE]