I dislike when people, and I'm guilty as well, speak in absolutes. That being said, it is difficult to say you trust in the Coach and then question his decisions on playing time, etc. Some obviously believe they know certain players and their abilities better than Mullins. And while I guess that is possible, I simply find that hard to believe.
I dislike when people, and I'm guilty as well, speak in absolutes. That being said, it is difficult to say you trust in the Coach and then question his decisions on playing time, etc. Some obviously believe they know certain players and their abilities better than Mullins. And while I guess that is possible, I simply find that hard to believe.
For a person that doesn't seem to like absolutes you just laid out a whopper there. A lot of people feel that coaches need to think about opportunities to get players time on the court. There is a world of difference between playing against the guys you are used to and those who you are unfamiliar. The 2004-5 season, there were tons of opportunities to get the underclassman minutes without changing the outcome of any game and that opportunity was lost. How'd that turn out for us? I'm pretty sure we don't lose to Alaska anchorage had that year's starters had a few minutes together as a unit in 10-15 games the year before. Meatball said that the year before, the second squad routinely beat the starters in practice.
This is called being reasonable. Regardless of how good a coach or his players are, human nature dictates they will not make changes if things are going their way at that particular moment in time. Nobody is perfect and pointing out that a human being (coach, player, etc.) is doing something easily predictable by human nature is not being malicious.
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand
