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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 1588229, member: 966"] That's some scary 'thinking' right there. I first thought you were being facetious, but follow ups suggest otherwise. Firstly, JB's statement that you seem to think is so 'wise' is actually the silliest, most obvious thing, maybe ever. If we don't make shots... Duh. That was barely worthy of being a soundbite. Secondly, suggesting that the guy with 800 wins invariably and inherently and empirically and all that... has a more valid/accurate/correct opinion than the 'bystander' is just insanely myopic. For one thing, JB Himself has often changed his own course/mind. Case in point: I think Donna D recently is wrote that the team no longer practices man D. I think we used to do that, predominantly, even though we played zone in games. The rationalization may have been that those skills somehow translated to better zone performance. Somehow. Magically. Well, anyhow, apparently that has changed and we now practice exclusively zone. Which makes sense, given that we are never going to actually PLAY anything other than zone. But, hey, I suggested the former strategy was asinine years ago. I have zero wins. Better than that, though... If JB's opinion is always better than that of the fan with Zero wins in your estimation, how do you reconcile that there is another coach with MORE wins than JB, who does things very differently from JB. There are other coaches with far more national championships and FF appearances that do things very differently than JB. Why wouldn't you weigh those 'opinions' as greater than JB's? If wins is your criteria for assessing validity. And, on a game to game basis... If we lose a particular game. Weren't the opposing coach's opinions then 'better' than JB's? What is the basis for your complete and blind devotion to a set of thoughts that are entirely just opinions? WHICH CHANGE OVER TIME. And can't be compared to alternate thoughts because we can't play the same game/season twice. If JB were as God-level perfect as you insist, when did he become so? Because clearly, if he's perfect today, he wasn't two years ago. And if he's perfect today, then what was he when we actually won the NC? What was he when we went to the NITs? My sense is st you will rationalize it by explaining that JB's mind is so great, so advanced that whatever he decides, no matter the contradiction, is just the proper adaptation or course correction for the particular moment, and not a reversal or admission of 'error.' And a person who thinks like that would certainly think "if we don't make shots, we can't win" is a bit of genius. [/QUOTE]

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