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Message: [QUOTE="manleyzoo, post: 2007757, member: 519"] It's easy for a lifetime coach to say in a press conference that a humiliating loss is all his fault. It's easy to publicly Boeheim a player - twice. It's easy after a 50 point win against a former staffer to show public disgust about your team. It's easy to say how much more work the team has to do to get better. Boo hoo. All of that has nothing to do with nothing. What's far more difficult is to correctly assess the parts you have and craft the right strategy to best fit those parts together. Not what you have to have because it's who you are - it's what the players show they can best do. With this team, he's asking nearly all of them to squeeze into a shirt that's way too tight for them individually. For the past few years, in this, the twilight of his career, he's done exactly that, he's just gotten away with it more times than not because the players have rescued him or he's gotten plain lucky. Teams in trouble like this don't get better because they players miraculously start doing what you want. They get better because you find a better way to coach them. The questions that should be asked have nothing to do with the deficiencies of the players - nearly every player at this level has issues. The only question that matters is can the coach really look in the mirror as his career winds down and start over. Rethink his strategy, rethink how he deals with players, hell, just rethink. The old ball coach hasn't done that for years. The truth is it's very challenging for us older folks to learn how to drive all over again. It's not that you kill the thing you love - it's the thing you love that kills you. In this case, what Boeheim loves and the only thing he believes he can do is killing him, the players and this team. [/QUOTE]

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