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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 880517, member: 289"]
Wow! All of that is dependent on a jump ball?

I know perfectly well why coaches don't like unpredictable things. They are held responsible for outcomes so they want the events leading to outcomes to be as predictable as they can make them. it's as simple as that. I've always felt the reason why coaches love to practice so much is that they are in control of the practices and not of the games themselves. They can stop the action whenever they don't like what they see and tell the players to do it over again. Their practices are also not editorialized about in the paper, (or on the radio or the internet). That's where coaches live. Games are where they work. When a coach refuses to play a talented player because he doesn't practice well it's not just that the player hasn't paid the price for excellence- he has desecrated what the coach considers to be sacred and thus not earned the privilege to show his talents in a game, even if those talents might win the game.

Thus coaches don't like plays where "you never know what is going to happen", even if fans might be more entertained by them.
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