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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Some players respond and play better in different systems and some perform better when they allowed to react and create at their own pace (like most elite talents).
A good coach knows how to get the best out of different types of players and doesn't stick to one template. Right now, Gulutzan is getting acceptable results from bottom 9 players, but the elite talents are suffering.
Poor coaching doesn't mean that every player is going to suck at the same rate. A lot of people didn't like Hartley or Keenan, but they had histories of getting career years out of skilled players. Not every player sucked on the Oilers under Eakins either, but the overall results were terrible. It happens.
Just to add, systems is only one aspect of coaching and not even necessarily the most important aspect. Being able to adapt, make decisions on the fly, motivate, manage personalities, manage the bench, communicating with officials and staff, running effective practices, knowing when to push and know when to punish/reward, etc.... One can be a bad coach even if the system isn't the main issue.
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This makes a lot of sense, especially the part about the elite talents suffering. You would think that it would be reasonable that one of them would be suffering (for whatever reason), but all of them over the same stretch of time does point to a coaching problem of some sort.
It makes me think that there is a player attitude problem going the other way that GG can't handle. What I mean by that is that when I have seen the elite talent play, it looks they have fallen into the trap of believing that they were going to win through combined individual greatness instead of true, coordinated, team play. Now that individual greatness has failed to get results, they are all stuck having to fight against their own individual instincts every moment of the game and countless poor decisions have resulted. GG just can't seem to fix it. To be fair to him, to the extent that I think it is a problem with individuals, I'm sure how fast anyone else could.