[walterwhite]

Happens a lot on both boys and girls board lately. One would think the coaches are scoring every point for their teams. Give credit where credits due. North made a silly foul and an eighth grader stepped up under unreal pressure and made the shots. I think both Clay and North have two fine coaches and both put their teams in position to win this game. Simply come down to player execution and neither coach scored a point.

So the game plan and strategy employed by coaches have little impact on the game? Player execution is absolutely critical and without it even the best coaches look bad, but to imply that coaching is pretty much irrelevant is crazy! Dictating how the game is played is how teams that may be undermanned can turn the tables on more talented teams. If coaching isn't important then we should just play without 'em, pick-up games. Coaches try to put their teams in the best position to win, and players execute to carry out those plans.