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[QUOTE="Jake, post: 4487158, member: 86"]
I hear ya and I think there’s much truth to what you’re saying.

The problem JB has, and I think he realizes it, is his biggest teaching weapon has been taken away from him.

He uses the bench as a motivator - he’s always felt that that was the greatest motivator.  But the portal has taken that away.

“Oh, you don’t like the way I play?….I’m out”.

I don’t think JB is the only coach affected.  I think a lot of his generation of coaches (of which he’s nearly the last) feel the same way.

So I am watching Gonzaga play Washington, the other night, and it was terrible basketball.

Both teams were taking terrible shots early in the shot clock. Gonzaga won because they got the ball to Drew Timme inside, and he basically won the game by himself.

But repeatedly, both teams, especially the guards, were taking horrible shots early in the shot clock. Neither Coach sat those players, even though they were clearly exasperated by the shot selection.

I think that’s what you’re starting to see in the game overall. There’s a deterioration because coaches feel they can’t really Coach to get more efficient offensive sets.

It’s not just here, I think it’s all over the country. And I think it’s a great challenge for this generation of coaches to try and affect discipline on the court, while not upsetting this newly empowered generation of players.
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