There's no accounting for taste. What moves the needle for me may not appeal to readers. It's the LICORICE factor...you like it or not.
Guy Molloy podcast with Chris Oliver. This post featured "coach improvement." We can always be better. He discussed the book Thinking Volleyball and the value of signature style of play. Filming practice measures teaching methods AND language. ABC = always build culture. We're either improving or losing ground. We have to communicate on many levels with many stakeholders. What's your plan B? Plan A will fail.
Remember epic Arnold in The Terminator. "I'll be back."
Enhance teaching with Flashcards. Andrew Cohen writes, "there’s a reason that flashcards have been a preferred study method for hundreds of years: They friggin’ work!" Do more of what works and less of what doesn't.
Learn from mistakes. "Love your losses." Selfishness, situational unawareness, and loss of focus kill success. Ask players, what if and what next? When we watch a high school game, track the mistakes, both technical and tactical. It's astonishing the amount of poor spacing, excessive dribbling, playing in traffic, bad shot selection, doubling down on mistakes. Teach our players to throttle back on mistakes.
Lagniappe: Mental Model, Influence of Authority
We are powerfully affected by authority. In the Milgram Experiment, test subjects "gave" (false) high voltage shocks when prompted by authority. In the Stanford Prison Experiment, "guards" became brutal within hours of assuming the role. Abuse and torture occur when sanctioned by authorities. As leaders, coaches have authority and great responsibility to use it wisely and justly because of the influence of authority.
Lagniappe 2. Inbounding vs pressure. (Chris Oliver)
Read the actions of the denial of the weak side cut.
