[J. R. VanHoose]

Talent is usually develpod by hard work and the drive to get better along with coaching. I'll take a kid with heart and desire to improve and he will get better even if he has a mediocre coach. Coaching is about preparation and adjustments. Game plans last about 4 minutes into a game and after that you can throw it out the window. It's all about adjustments!!! Great players and great coaches adjust accordingly and that's what makes them winners.

On this I will have to politely disagree. Heart and desire in players are very important, but a great coach will make them better by showing them the proper way to play under certain circumstances. A mediocre coach can just roll a ball out and say play and kids can do that and look good and bad at times. Coaching is about preperations and adjustments, but it is also about teaching kids to play the proper way (fundamentals) in certain situations. A kid must know when to use a variety of moves (jump hook, jump shot, up-and-under, dribble drive, crossover, behind-the-back, etc.) and when not to. A kid must also know when to use a counter-move in a certain situation and that comes from coaching. For example, lets say a post player has shot a jump hook two straight times in the lane. A good coach has taught a counter move to the jump hook to use to score on the defender again. The next time down the floor the kid uses an up-and-under move a scores again. Only proper coaching in practice has allowed the kid to be able to know when and where to use that move.

I will agree that great coaches and players adjust to certain situations. That is correct, but I believe that preparing them for those situations makes them great players and makes coaches great.