Logic and common sense and your eyeball test tells you the coach choose option A but chooses option B. Option B could be no timeout or playing an unexpected goalie. Your team loses and it seems obvious the coach made the wrong decision. We assume the coach ignored the obvious and blame the coach for the outcome.
But how do we know this is an accurate inference? These coaches are professionals with access to far more information than the causal fan. Perhaps these decisions were made given situational or contextual factors fans are simply unaware of? Anyway, they might be "bone-head" decisions but they also may not be. I will defer to the GM and others more in "the know" to decide if the coach is prone to "bone-head" mistakes.
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