@jagwired:  

 

You would think people wouldn't need to be told what is important and what isn't important.  But that's just not how it works.  That's why we have coaches.  They set the direction for the team.  They emphasize what will be focused upon and what will not be focused upon.  And if the focus is on some "process" but not specifically on winning, then that's a major problem.

 

Dude, go back and re-read the quote from what lewis said.  He specifically said that winning wasn't important, but that the process was important.  That's what he said.  Did he misspeak?  I don't think so.  I think it's been driven into the player's mind-set that the process is the key and winning will eventually come.

 

Bradley is specifically and consiously putting something ahead of winning.  I mean, it's just simple logic.  If something is more important than winning, then winning isn't the priority. 

 

And thus you have what we have here.  A team that lost 3 games in a row to the clots, bucs, and tinhorns.  3 teams that at the time we were playing them had inferior overall talent when compared to the overall talent of our team.

 

That's all coaching.

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