I'm sure this has already been posted but I loved this quote from Jason Hart. I don't know if it will translate into wins but I love the way this staff speaks. Notice he didn't say to not articulate negative just do it in the right manner. We all need a good arse chewing every once in a while but there are subtle ways of getting your point across. We may have the depth for pine time to be a "whisper negative".
Scream Positive, Whisper Negative
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But how about "GO!" Would that be considered positive or negative? I'd be happy if no one on Kentucky's bench screamed it for a while. Maybe whisper it, to let the other coaches know if you need a bathroom break...
I always looked at that as useless in game correction. A coach probably needs to instill GOOOO in practice.
I don't think Cal was an awful coach in terms of preparation. I think he was an awful coach in terms of in-game adjustments. He could do some at half-time but otherwise even the plays he might choose to call seemed poor decisions more often than not.
What Cal had was a reputation for top tier recruiting and putting kids into the league. That worked out great for many who passed through our program. That also encouraged others with great high school talent to select him as the coach. Of course, mainly this didn't little for the program achieving because of the favoritism and again poor in-game coaching. Any debate on "favoritism" ends with the knowledge that we just had two possibly top 5 or at least 10 draft pics and the player that is not even NBA ready started over both of them?
What Cal had was a reputation for top tier recruiting and putting kids into the league. That worked out great for many who passed through our program. That also encouraged others with great high school talent to select him as the coach. Of course, mainly this didn't little for the program achieving because of the favoritism and again poor in-game coaching. Any debate on "favoritism" ends with the knowledge that we just had two possibly top 5 or at least 10 draft pics and the player that is not even NBA ready started over both of them?
The last five years he was very bad. He had possibles hi school coaches don't have
It’s true. If they don’t know to run down court the coach has failed well in advance of the actual game.
The actual game of basketball passed up Cal's skillset years ago.
But where I argue Cal always excelled was the business of basketball. He could recruit, sell a program (himself) to both the media and recruits, and hire guys who did know basketball to fill in the gaps. People who stick by him are generally fiercely loyal and it seems to go both ways.
But his ego is his ultimate downfall. He burns bridges when mad. Honestly if he didn't have so much of that he'd probably have excelled in that ambassador to UK basketball role and we'd have been better for it. But that would have had him taking a backseat to the actual coach and that's never gonna happen.