Sweet Lou's Greatest Gift

[Benton]

(10-27-2021, 11:29 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Dunlap did not care about individual stats. He cared about winning.

Nothing Lou did last year had anything to do with winning.  He benched Dunlap below inferior players and the defense suffered because of it.

I'm not really following the second graf.

Lou tried to change up what folks were doing. Some folks (like Dunlap) didn't agree with the changes, and we didn't gain much ground. 

Now we're playing guys doing what the coach is asking and we've got a much improved defense.

I think Dunlap was a solid player last year, but if the game is an instruction manual and one guy is on Page 37 while everyone else is on page 15, then it's not going to work. Dunlap wanted to pick his page, and that hurt the team. I was good with the trade then and I'm better with it now considering the nonfactor he's become.