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Originally Posted by Textcritic
But it is also not just as simple as that. Ward was most definitely not a good coach because he failed to get the team to play well. However, I think part of Bingo's point is to rightly note that the coach was pretty regularly being criticized here for things that were the players's doing. Too often when a player missed a pass, or skated mindlessly into traffic, or attempted to pass through layers of coverage into the slot Ward would be lambasted for it.
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Wouldn't a good coach also notice the repeated player mistakes and address them with the player, and if the player refuses to adjust then bench said player? It seemed like they had no accountability to Ward at all. I get it, he was the good cop to the Peters bad cop, but being a good cop did not work for him as head coach.