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Message: [QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 3742249, member: 297"] The one way I think you could say something negative about the player is if you couch it in an ongoing coaching conversation with the plan to improve. "It was a great to come away with a win, but we talked after the game about how his rebounding needs to be better, and that's something to focus on." "It's a tough loss, and in the locker room we acknowledged that we didn't start the game with the defensive intensity we needed, and he said that was something he would make sure happen in the next game." "You never play perfect basketball, but he knows he took some shots that were pretty quick and put us in a bad time. So we've talked about being smart about what's a good look, and I expect that next game we'll keep working on." But unless the quotes we see are really chopped off, I don't get the sense this is how JB frames these kinds of things. [/QUOTE]