Hey Lemon! Another guy that understands basketball.
And I'm sorry you have to pull in another sport in trying to be right about basketball.
And Joe, our coach has a 94% approval rate, yours has 63%... and rightly so, in both cases.
We had a pretty crap U21 team this season and despite some unlucky choices, he managed to reach the 2nd round of the knockout phase. We were never realistically going to win the tournament, so why save enth against the strongest, number 1 seed?
Your coach fails two seasons in a row to understand the oppenents. He appears cocky in his team, not doing the necessary analysing and reasoning ahead of a game. Last season missing out of the finals round because... once again... two TIEs. The one against Spain seems alright, with one loss you would have still progressed. But then the TIE against Suomi was bad decision making. They were going to crunch, no doubt about it because it was their last change to stay in the race against a stronger team. That your coach then went for TIE, 63% approval is still high. This season I have to admit it might have been a bit of bad luck, but once again he could have figured oit quite easily what the Holland coach was going to do and which of the Holland players were the core strength and could have eliminated those players. He didn't, so Italy lost, not necessarily because of the TIE, because like the Dutch's crunch that was the only right decision. But he could have done better preparing his team against the strengths and weaknesses of the Dutch team.