Our end-game strategy

[MARIS61]

How many players claim personal credit for a victory? None that I can think of.

I coach, and I know I've credited my coaching staff for coming up with a game-plan to win. Likewise, I've said that we failed to come up with a game-plan to win. I can't think of a coach I know that thinks he's only to credit when his team loses. It just makes no sense...

You are tiptoe-ing around the perimeter of my point.

Have you EVER taken personal credit for a win?

Not the same as giving credit to your staff, or players, actually the opposite.

Again, I'm guessing no.


I have a few times heard players give the coach credit for a win, and deservedly so, but from a coach's perspective credit for the win always goes to the players, or as you point out maybe the staff too.

 

[MARIS61]

How many players claim personal credit for a victory? None that I can think of.

Many have implied it.

Just off the top of my head: Kobe, Roy, AI, Jordan, KG, Shaq...

 

[Nikolokolus]

And how many wins did he claim personal credit for?

I'm guessing none.

Yeah you're right I'm sure after every win he said something like "The guys really played well today." and after every loss some variant of "I didn't have them fully prepared today" was uttered. But we're not talking about what a coach or player states publicly; social and cultural mores and prohibitions regarding bragging and self promotion have more to do with what coaches and athletes are supposed to say following a particular outcome than the reality.

You know just as well as anybody else that when things go well or badly coaches and players both contribute to the outcome, and that distribution is never 100% on the players in a win and 100% on the coach in a loss (pee-wee football and little league games excluded).