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Message: [QUOTE="Sherman20, post: 2782089, member: 6357"] Old coaches who are set in their ways can change as they age. Beilein is a great example. He’s of course one of the best offensive system minds in the game. But he admitted last year that he didn’t spend as much time thinking about defense or even making it as much of a focus in practice as his offense. Last season, he hired a new assistant coach (can’t remember the name), who took over the teaching and implementation of their man to man defense. The result? Michigan’s best defense ever under Beilein. And they look even better this season. Even Beilein admitted all of this and credited his new assistant with changing his thinking. JB is way more stubborn than Beilein, but you never know. Hop tried to convince him to run more and press more. And JB has changed things up on offense in the past, after coaching the Olympians for the first time in 2008 and working with NBA guys. [/QUOTE]