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Message: [QUOTE="HarrisonJBounel, post: 198425, member: 1760"] You are looking at this as a glass half-empty. The glass half-full part is that basketball, like all endeavors, is a game best played when confident (not cocky or "invincable" [sic]). Confident that you can stop your man, get that rebound, nail that 3-pointer, beat your defender, make that free throw. Having to "scrape" for wins is nice, but it is an admission that you don't have better athletes than the other team, and you are forced to play a game of strength of will, not athleticism. At that point you are not playing to win, but playing not to lose - a huge difference in attitude. A team with better athletes can always use this as Plan B. But Plan A should be to be confident, and play by play, demolish the other team with a killer instinct, a swagger. Calipari knows how to get his guys to do that, as does Coach K. It is not a strength of JB. [/QUOTE]