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[QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 1421684, member: 5058"]
So I had a roommate that played for a hall of fame coach. My roommate told me that coach, we'll call him JB was an excellent tactician and if the players would/could just execute what he drew up, they would not be beat. Thinking of that made me think of another example of this in action;

1995 Syracuse vs Arkansas NCAA basketball.  SU is up a point on #2 seed and defending champion Arkansas.  There is something like 5 seconds to go and Arkansas has to inbound from under their rim coming out of a TO.  Lucious Jackson steals the inbound pass with an incredible diving play on the ball.  Talent or execution? I say talent. In the same moment, Lawrence Moten calls a time out that Syracuse didn't have. Technical foul. Arkansas ties up the game and we lose in OT. Talent or execution? I say Execution.  I will take that comment a step further. As alluded to above, my roommate was in the huddle before the ball was inbounded.  He said the coaches all said there were no time outs left. The plan was put in place in that everyone was told not to call time out. Just the year before, Arkansas won because Chris Webber called a TO Michigan didn't have.  Moten didn't execute the play called in the huddle (don't call time out).

We would have won that game with talent, but we lost it with execution. The two are not mutually exclusive.
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