[OutsiderFan]

It's easy to tell when a team is well-coached. It's not as easy to tell when it isn't, but there are certainly indicators.

It is not clear to me how these statements can be simultaneously true. If teams are either well coached or they are not, and you can always recognize which teams are, isn't it logically required that the ones you can't determine are well coached are not? If you attempt to allow a third state "don't know", then it must not be easy to determine if a team is well coached, since some of the "don't knows" must be well coached for a third state to exist.

There is a difference between players executing and running sound schemes, sets, and plays.

Oregon State's players knew how to handle the press. They knew how to attack the defenses they faced, move the ball and create open shots for their teammates. They also played solid defense, executing the scheme. That's good coaching. If they were missing shots I would have been able to see they were well coached, but just missing shots. If Tennessee made more shots, Oregon State was still playing sound defense. 

It's not as easy to tell if the players aren't executing a sound scheme, or if the coach doesn't have one and they are not organized, unless you see the team play over and over and see the same problems consistently.

[OutsiderFan]

It's easy to tell when a team is well-coached. It's not as easy to tell when it isn't, but there are certainly indicators.

It is not clear to me how these statements can be simultaneously true. If teams are either well coached or they are not, and you can always recognize which teams are, isn't it logically required that the ones you can't determine are well coached are not? If you attempt to allow a third state "don't know", then it must not be easy to determine if a team is well coached, since some of the "don't knows" must be well coached for a third state to exist.

There is a difference between players executing and running sound schemes, sets, and plays.

Oregon State's players knew how to handle the press. They knew how to attack the defenses they faced, move the ball and create open shots for their teammates. They also played solid defense, executing the scheme. That's good coaching. If they were missing shots I would have been able to see they were well coached, but just missing shots. If Tennessee made more shots, Oregon State was still playing sound defense. 

It's not as easy to tell if the players aren't executing a sound scheme, or if the coach doesn't have one and they are not organized, unless you see the team play over and over and see the same problems consistently.