Mentor CAPT Dr. Bill Baker explained there were two ways to go wrong in medicine:
1) Tell the patient who is sick that nothing is wrong.
2) Tell the patient who is well that something is wrong.
You don't show up one day and become a physician, surgeon, or basketball coach. Whether Malcolm Gladwell's "10,000 hours" applies is conjecture. Overnight experience is oxymoron.
We learn through:
- Experience
- Mentors ("you're following a lit fuse" - CAPT Tom Walsh)
- Trial and error (that procedure needed more local anesthetic)
- Independent study (reading, clinics, video)
- Analogy. Bees pollinate flowers. Who pollinates our coaching?
Our teams present with symptoms - lack of confidence, indecision, silence, low basketball IQ. And they manifest signs - selfishness, poor spacing, turnovers, poor shot quality, lack of urgency in cutting and transition.
Your 'physical examination' might start with video with audio. What shows up at a glance across sports?
- Energy and communication "hey, batter, batter."
- Spacing on offense
- Ball pressure with "color on color" on defense
- Ball movement. "The ball has energy."
- Where do points arise?
- What is the offensive intent - transition, sets, freelance?
- What is the overarching defensive philosophy?
- Who delivers the "scoring moment" (possession enders)?
A great diagnostician may not find a cure. But nobody finds cures without working the process of history, examination, and understanding "differential diagnosis." You are doctors of basketball.
Lagniappe. Create.
Manu Ginobili was disgusting
— Hoop Herald (@TheHoopHerald) October 6, 2023
Young people have no idea what he was doing out there
An absolute nightmare for defenses
(Via @automaticnba 🎥 )
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Lagniappe 2. BOB, a little busy.
Happy Thursday afternoon coaches! As we inch closer to the start of practices, here’s a great BLOB to run of a boa. Along with that, we have our usual random thoughts. Get better today coaches!! pic.twitter.com/ur7QuBnD6y
— A Pen And A Napkin (@apenandanapkin) October 5, 2023