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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
I find it hilarious that people listen to Sutter’s criticisms of previous coaches and now all of a sudden they have an air of correctness about them.
So many (and I mean many…) posters on this very website levied the same criticisms or complaints about the previous coaches over those various times. And every time on this site it was met with the usual rejection and appeal to authority arguments constantly made by long term resident posters. How many times did Jiri or timbit, specifically and for example but also Bingo and others come to the coaches defence time and time again?
And now here you have Sutter trot out the exact same sentiments and it’s met with acceptance.
This is the problem with the appeals to authority. The majority on this board have actually a pretty good read on things and usually issues get debated into the coles’ notes problem that needs fixing. But just because Sutter says it it’s not valid? Eyeroll. And yeah, you (and by you I mean a broad group of posters that supported the “it’s not the coaches it’s the players” rhetoric) all deserve to be called out, mainly because of how dismissive you are to people generally speaking.
Obviously. Obviously coaching was a huge issue previously. Lucic himself said it last night too essentially.
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From what I've gathered, none of the previous coaches under Treliving's tenure have worked intensively with the players on an individual level. From what I've seen, for the most part they've used a blanket system approach for a team full of very different players that bring different aspects to the team and left the skill guys to their own devices and to self-motivate, rather than working a more catered approach that brings the best out of said skill players, outside of the dreaded Gaudreau drop passes. The current system has better success principles while Sutter is working with guys individually to bring up the details of their games and increase the speed at which they play. As Darryl put it, some of these guys have never been shown to do things the right way in his mind, so that just tells you so much about the way the previous coaches went about things. Probably didn't ruffle too many feathers in the room, and preached the same message to the whole group ad nauseum which would always eventually fall upon deaf ears, while Sutter develops relationships with each and every one of his guys and learns what each responds best to. You see that in the segments around the Kings' winning teams. The other top coaches in the league probably operate in a similar way.
We were really just wasting/biding our time before Sutter entered the fold here. The other guys were playing house behind the bench. Peters and Hartley were slightly better motivators than the rest due to their tough love approach, but still couldn't adjust to opposing coaches effectively when faced with adversity.
We're blessed to have this man step back into the fold for us.