Jim Larranaga Quotes on Mastery & Expertise (2 Quotes)

The upset formula is basically this. Everybody knows on any given night, the saying goes, that anybody can beat anybody. That's not actually true, because if there's a huge discrepancy in talent, if the game is played on the stronger team's home court with a lot of other factors in their favor, then the odds of the underdog winning are minimal. ... In this game, obviously, Connecticut has so much talent at so many different positions on the floor, we're going to have to really analyze what we do so that our players know, this is our focus, this is our strength.

I think a lot of the experts expected them to dominate us. We have enough faith and confidence in ourselves that we're not listening to the experts and the so-called prognosticators.