Wizop wrote:I get that you don't get to this level unless you are super-competitive, but a coach should be able to make a player understand that he's one of our top three players but our best chance of winning requires him to come off the bench, I know few of you are old enough to have seen the great Boston teams, but Red Auerbach pulled it off.
It helped that he had guys with the mind-set and character of Hondo. If he was willing to come off the bench, who did the other guys think they were to say no? And related to that, at that time, the only response a player should give when Red said something was "Yes Sir!"