Quality coaches make the most of down time.
They'll use this invaluable time — a long offseason or a bye week — to add new wrinkles to a team's offense and defense, reflect on a team's strengths and weaknesses and, possibly, contemplate a shakeup of their player rotation.
For Osaka Evessa coach Kensaku Tennichi, mid-January, or precisely two weeks before the All-Star break, proved to be a much-needed time to step back, take a deep breath and properly analyze the season. (Osaka was 11-13 at the time.)