HE'S currently sporting a rosy glow having taken the Boomers to a maiden Olympic medal, but basketball great Brian Goorjian has always been more insightful in his view on losing than winning.
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For those unaware, Goorjian is the NBL's greatest coach with six championships at three different clubs to his name. Last year he returned to the NBL with Illawarra after a 12-year absence and continued an unbroken run of 22 consecutive years in the post-season.
That's 22 years, for six rings. Purely in mathematical terms, it's not the greatest conversion rate. Yet Goorjian is unequivocally the GOAT as far as basketball coaches in this country go.
After bowing out in the semi-finals this year, he was philosophical about the ups and downs of professional sport.
"I've been in the game for 30 years and, if every year you don't win the championship is disappointing, you're going to have a horrible career," he said.
That frank take came to mind amid all the present talk in the rugby league universe about "premiership windows". It's swirling around Parramatta and coach Brad Arthur.
For the club's part they've backed their coach - but as we know such endorsements are nomadic; they don't hang around for long.
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The concept of a premiership window isn't, in itself, ridiculous. Where the idea becomes grossly flawed, is when it's used as a stopwatch.
Arthur's gone fourth, fifth and third in three of the past four years. The Eels are still in the hunt for a top-four finish but there are now more people suggesting he should be sacked than there were in 2018 when the Eels came last.
It doesn't make sense, but few things do in the weird and wonderful world of NRL coaching.
Last year, supposedly a belt-tightening one, clubs sacked and paid out five coaches.
John Morris has been sacked by Cronulla this year, while Wayne Bennett, Des Hasler, Anthony Griffin, Nathan Brown, Michael Maguire and Trent Barrett were sacked by their previous clubs (three of the six are premiership winners).
Ivan Cleary and Ricky Stuart left their previous clubs in acrimonious circumstances, while Adam O'Brien, Kevin Walters, Todd Payten and Justin Holbrook are in their first gig.
The other two are Craig Bellamy and Trent Robinson. As it stands, clubs are in an endless cycle of sacking coaches for not being one or the other.
Arthur, Maguire, Brown, O'Brien and Walters are all graduates of the Storm school. Arthur and Maguire, in particular, have looked to emulate that Storm trait of setting a standard and ruthlessly maintaining it.
Maguire rode it all the way to premiership with the Rabbitohs in 2014. He was sacked in favour of Anthony Seibold - another Storm graduate - in 2017 amid suggestions he drove his players too hard. It's a reputation that's followed him to the Tigers.
Seibold was lured away from the Rabbitohs by Brisbane who, like everyone, were looking for Bellamy 2.0.
We all saw how that ended.
It ended similarly for Jason Taylor - a Roosters coaching alumnus - at the Tigers, while Paul Green's journey at the Cowboys after leaving Robinson's stable almost directly mirrors Maguire's.
The Sharks are hoping Robinson has rubbed off enough on Craig Fitzgibbon next year, in the way the Knights were banking on O'Brien bringing the Bellamy magic dust with him.
When the Dragons sacked Paul McGregor last year, the three chief candidates looked at were two coaches that had been sacked - Griffin and David Furner - and an untested rookie in Dean Young. You can mix and match the names but, just add Neil Henry, and you've got the default coaching recruitment list. Surprisingly, not many clubs even bother to look at it before they punt the bloke they have.
Who'd do a better job right now? It's a question few clubs can find a compelling answer to. If you're letting an imaginary premiership window act as a ticking clock, you'll send yourself mad.
Spend enough time gazing out of the window daydreaming, you're bound to lose sight of what's actually going on inside.