It's been well-documented that Bill Plaschke doesn't understand baseball, but now he's writing about basketball.  This is amazing.  This is beyond amazing.  It's his column from yesterday entitled "UCLA-Memphis is a coaching mismatch," which suggests Howland is a vastly superior coach to Calipari, using such comparisons such as this:

"He doesn't call timeouts, he doesn't even call plays, instead installing a system in which his players use different motions.

When you see him shouting on the sideline, it will be as a cheerleader, not a caretaker. He will be shouting for players to run hard, to shoot smarter, to get tougher."

Wow, just...wow.  Thank you, Bill.  I really, really enjoyed that.  I'll just ignore the fact somebody had to teach Memphis the system that allows them to score so many points - the same system Grant Wahl wrote a giant, epic, SI piece on - or that what you just stated describes a lot of basketball coaches who run motion offenses and don't have to call out a set play every time.  Thanks to the Times for this.  Simply amazing.