I read about half of "The Score Takes Care Of Itself" by Bill Walsh on a flight a few weeks back, and it makes me question your reasoning. It sounded like the

I read about half of "The Score Takes Care Of Itself" by Bill Walsh on a flight a few weeks back, and it makes me question your reasoning. It sounded like the team that Bill Walsh coached was playing an (at the time) similarly unloved playing style, and didn't have the favored players in the NFL (especially before the winning began), but (supposedly, I don't know anything about NFL) Joe Montana is now seen as one of the best quarterbacks, despite not being well suited to other teams' strategies. In that sense the full court press sounds like a similar strategy to the west coast offence where you can take what are otherwise seen as poor players and transform a sport by taking championships.