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What did Red Auerbach coach?
1941, Auerbach began coaching basketball.
How did his team do?
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Did he win any games?
49-11 win-loss record, including a standard-setting 17-game winning streak that stood as the single-season league record until 1969.
What was his teams name?
Capitols.
Did he coach any other teams?
After leaving the Capitols, Auerbach became assistant coach of the Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team.
Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
Auerbach traded more than two dozen players in just six weeks.
Why did he do that?
to rebuild the team from scratch.

Question: Was that a good thing?
Self-contained rewrite: Was Red Auerbach rebuilding the team from scratch a good thing?