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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5284782, member: 405"]
Look, he's not doing well now, but last year, he handled a lot of challenges.

First, one big man, and then the other went down with injuries in only December / early January.  The remaining backups were not playable.

Then, our starting forward kind of melts down and gets kicked off the team.  Regardless of whether he ever lived up to his press clippings, he was a guy who could score 10 points or more in a game, and a guy who could get you half a dozen rebounds on a good day.  So, we lost that guy, too.

That's 3 of our 4 biggest players size wise. What impact did that have? We had no choice but to play Maliq at center most of the time, and Justin Taylor at PF (!?!?!?) most of the time, even when he went full Chuck Knoblauch and couldn't / wouldn't / shouldn't shoot anymore.  Just for defense, we still had to play that massively flawed player 20+ minutes a game just to have a complete rotation.

Forget all the rest of the prima donna stuff.  He somehow lost 3 of his 4 big men, changed defenses to play more zone, and got us to 20 wins.  I mean, that was a very good coaching job.

And now, it seems like he just doesn't get it at all.  I just don't understand how he could be so much worse at the job this year.  Makes no sense.
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