[Card10Fan]

Unless you (old spanish trail ) are Coach Vanderveer in disguise on this message board, stop acting like I'm insulting you personally! I have no qualms about dishing out my two cents on the coaching and this is a place to rightly do so. I trust Tara and I absolutely think the team will figure it out at some point. But watching these early season games, it sure seems these early season loses could have been avoided. The team has not been fun to watch and the same issues continue to plague us. We returned way too much talent and experience to look so discombobulated on the court and no the players were not told there would be unusual substitutions. 

Coaches need to put players in positions to be successful on the court. How is Fran going to be successful in 2 minutes? The players have to feel just as confused about the sporadic minutes so it’s a no wonder the team is very up and down individually aside from Brink. All this bullshit about tinkering with lineups and finding a point guard is just bullshit. EVERYONE knew the PG situation was the biggest question mark for the season. Why are the coaches just now trying to figure that out. Practice is the time to solidify rotations and get players comfortable in their roles. Not the games themselves especially playing a gauntlet schedule. I would give our coaches a C as a grade so far this year. Not impressive. This team will get better and may still contend for a Final 4, but these early season struggles could have been avoided. 

I will also say coaches can and should be criticized. This is a fan board and I feel an appropriate place to openly share our feeling, critiques, and support for anything Stanford athletics.
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Great, I'm glad you posted because you clearly know more than the Hall of Fame coach. Also, my guess is that Tara has told the players there will be some unusual substitutions in order to prepare them. I'd like a different pattern, but I've never coached high level wbb. I totally trust Tara (yes she can make mistakes as we all do but she knows way more than I re how to prepare her team). And, btw, I trust her plan re messing with the lineup alot more than Haase.

[Card10Fan]

Unless you (old spanish trail ) are Coach Vanderveer in disguise on this message board, stop acting like I'm insulting you personally! I have no qualms about dishing out my two cents on the coaching and this is a place to rightly do so. I trust Tara and I absolutely think the team will figure it out at some point. But watching these early season games, it sure seems these early season loses could have been avoided. The team has not been fun to watch and the same issues continue to plague us. We returned way too much talent and experience to look so discombobulated on the court and no the players were not told there would be unusual substitutions. 

Coaches need to put players in positions to be successful on the court. How is Fran going to be successful in 2 minutes? The players have to feel just as confused about the sporadic minutes so it’s a no wonder the team is very up and down individually aside from Brink. All this bullshit about tinkering with lineups and finding a point guard is just bullshit. EVERYONE knew the PG situation was the biggest question mark for the season. Why are the coaches just now trying to figure that out. Practice is the time to solidify rotations and get players comfortable in their roles. Not the games themselves especially playing a gauntlet schedule. I would give our coaches a C as a grade so far this year. Not impressive. This team will get better and may still contend for a Final 4, but these early season struggles could have been avoided. 

I will also say coaches can and should be criticized. This is a fan board and I feel an appropriate place to openly share our feeling, critiques, and support for anything Stanford athletics.
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Great, I'm glad you posted because you clearly know more than the Hall of Fame coach. Also, my guess is that Tara has told the players there will be some unusual substitutions in order to prepare them. I'd like a different pattern, but I've never coached high level wbb. I totally trust Tara (yes she can make mistakes as we all do but she knows way more than I re how to prepare her team). And, btw, I trust her plan re messing with the lineup alot more than Haase.