tournament whine

happens every year ... Coaches think they're smarter than their players on the floor... Illinois down 2, 10 seconds or so to go, rebounds a free throw miss... instead of allowing the players to make a play, bruce weber calls time, to set something up... this kills the players' best attribute at that moment: spontaneity... instead of facing a scrambling Washington defense on its heels and backpedaling, the Illini get a set UW D that knows Dee Brown will take the last shot... brilliant... contrast that w/the signature play of this year's Madness: The desperation hurled up from the left baseline by the kid from Northwestern -- or was it Northeastern? -- State, that beat Iowa... no time to think, only to react... boom, game over... genius coaches year after year refuse to trust the players they recruited, wooed and signed to make the plays they were recruited, wooed and signed to make... and this has nothing whatsoever to do w/the fact that I had Iowa in the Elite 8 and Illinois beating Washington... Live big...