That’s what I don’t know for sure. Ultimately, it’s the coach. But it’s not always cut and dry. Sometimes you can’t afford to keep your best off the court and you sort of “compromise” to keep the peace. Again, though, that’s a coaching decision. And sometimes it can go either way.
I NEVER thought UNLV would be “better” by booting Keon and Greedy off the team, two highly talented players, starters.
It may have been fluky, but the team came together and gave us a 5 day streak of insane emotion. They were “better” without their top two.
There have been other top players who were flawed with laziness or uncoachability or whatever else - that played because they were top, the coach chose to deal with it instead of boot. And you get mixed results.
For the record. That I know of - it happened with every single head coach I’ve watched since I started going to practices in 1998. No staff was immune to those issues. Boot or compromise. Because I’ll tell you what, when the player was kept, it’s not like the player changed. What was, still was.
