Bunch of good games today but first this

We'll be back tomorrow with a wrapup of a slew of good games today involving WAC teams but here's an item that caught our attention:

From Shawn Harrison's Herald Journal article of today, this jumped out at us:

“...I’m no miracle worker,” said Morrill when asked about how he could energize his team. “They got to decide if they want to play with some energy. Everybody thinks the coach controls all that, but the coach doesn’t control all that. The players control that. I can’t control whether they get themselves energized and ready to play basketball.

“... I have never believed it’s my job. I’ll try like hell, but it’s their job. It’s not my job to get them emotionally ready to play...”

What is your take on this? Whose role is it? Is is something shared by both parties in the equation?

Television commentators talk about how well a coach has 'prepared' his team but that usually is in reference to X's and O's -- how best to attack and defend.

Fans, (here comes our bias) as that part of fan-dom that is often untethered to reality, lament that Coach So-and-so didn't have his team ready to play -- but that seems most often in relation to an emotional pitch.

Here's our bottomline and it's seems congruent to what Morrill is saying: coaches are responsible for getting their teams 'prepared' for what they will experience on the court and coaches also try to get their team 'ready' to compete, 'up' if you will. But ultimately, it is the duty of the individual player to get himself 'prepared' and 'ready' either via the input of a coach, by himself or through a combination of the two.