[teejers1]

I enjoy the analysis and reflections that are shared on the Cardboard, but I’ll have to admit that I tire of the overly-persistent, can’t-let-go Monday Morning Quarterbacking that has dominated this thread.
Tara is the coach, she is responsible for all the practices, game prep, and game-time coaching. I don’t always agree with her coaching decisions or her treatment of players, but I give her the benefit of the doubt—she is the coach, and a very successful one at that!
We don’t know what has transpired between her and her players in practice. What we might see as a premature substitution of a player that doesn’t make the correct move might well be a response to a pattern of mis-steps stemming from practice. The substitution might be justified on events or conversations that we weren’t privy to. Tara's job is to make a "team" out of "many players." To borrow from one of her classic Tara-isms, "Basketball is a team sport. If you're into individual things, take up tennis!"

I think there is much to glean from the recent article in the Daily, which taps into the minds of Tara's players over the years. Give it a read, see what the players experienced, and you might choose to walk in Tara's moccasin before taking your point of view too seriously.
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/12/14...r-history/

Agree with thrust of your post (and I'm the "can't let go" person you're speaking to).  Will only close with these two observations:

1.  The bolded part cuts both ways; and 

2.  It's not as if there's no record of coach-player going sideways in this program (which is not shocking, given longevity - it happens).  But as you note, we don't know all the details of any of those instances.

Plus, the "we're not in practice, we don't know" argument can be used to limit all game discussion/criticism to . . . what?  
Use of timeouts/clock management?  FTR, I think Tara is generally quite good at that.

[teejers1]

I enjoy the analysis and reflections that are shared on the Cardboard, but I’ll have to admit that I tire of the overly-persistent, can’t-let-go Monday Morning Quarterbacking that has dominated this thread.
Tara is the coach, she is responsible for all the practices, game prep, and game-time coaching. I don’t always agree with her coaching decisions or her treatment of players, but I give her the benefit of the doubt—she is the coach, and a very successful one at that!
We don’t know what has transpired between her and her players in practice. What we might see as a premature substitution of a player that doesn’t make the correct move might well be a response to a pattern of mis-steps stemming from practice. The substitution might be justified on events or conversations that we weren’t privy to. Tara's job is to make a "team" out of "many players." To borrow from one of her classic Tara-isms, "Basketball is a team sport. If you're into individual things, take up tennis!"

I think there is much to glean from the recent article in the Daily, which taps into the minds of Tara's players over the years. Give it a read, see what the players experienced, and you might choose to walk in Tara's moccasin before taking your point of view too seriously.
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/12/14...r-history/

Agree with thrust of your post (and I'm the "can't let go" person you're speaking to).  Will only close with these two observations:

1.  The bolded part cuts both ways; and 

2.  It's not as if there's no record of coach-player going sideways in this program (which is not shocking, given longevity - it happens).  But as you note, we don't know all the details of any of those instances.

Plus, the "we're not in practice, we don't know" argument can be used to limit all game discussion/criticism to . . . what?  
Use of timeouts/clock management?  FTR, I think Tara is generally quite good at that.