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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 5581538, member: 210"] I think people are overplaying the margin of loss... the team's legs and spirit clearly gave out after that ISU run in the early 2nd half. They started panicking and heaving up shots and ISU would immediately get a dunk or a 3 out of it. It is what it is... collapses happen sometimes. What makes a good coach these days? 1. Having a vision 2. being able to sell the vision to recruits, the school, the boosters and the fans 3. being able to recruit good players who can execute the vision 4. being able to translate that vision to execution in the off season and practices 5. turning the vision into a game day execution plan. 6. Making adjustments in the game when the gameplay goes wrong This last off season, Autry made a lot of improvements on 1,2,3 and maybe 4... he was getting straight Fs in all of these in my opinion. The biggest issue I see now is that 5 is good on the defensive end but completely lacking on the offensive side. And most damningly he is completely failing on 6 on both ends of the court. When Kansas and especially ISU figured out our D there were no adjustments made that I could see. ISU did the high pick and roll and used pin downs on the inside guy numerous times to get easy buckets and we didn't adjust. On offense I didn't see even a cohesive primary strategy much less a single adjustment made across three games beyond subbing in different players. We gave almost no help to George to get open, there was no secondary screens or actions to get guys open, there was very little motion off the ball. The beauty of JB is that he was an elite coach across enough of those metrics from the get go that he was able to compensate for areas he wasn't as good in. I would argue that JB's strengths as a coach completely switched from 1 to 3 in the first part of his career to 3-6 in the latter half. Can Autry become a good/great coach? Yes, I believe he can. But based on his coaching growth trajectory it will take at least a few more years before he can go 2-1 in these type of tournaments and turn us back into a top 25 program. Do we have the patience to wait it out? [/QUOTE]

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