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Sunday, December 8, 2024

Basketball- Nobody’s Coming to Watch Us Coach

We all know this coach. 

Brad Stevens isn’t coming to watch your middle school team looking for NBA or G League coaches. So you’re 20-0 beating 11 year-olds with zone traps and a short rotation. BFD.

You think your recruited point guard and big run the PnR like Stockton and Malone. Send your application to MENSA. 

You alternate 2-3 and 1-3-1 zones looking to trap the worst guard on your opposition. You won your last game 66 to 6. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee is considering your nomination. 

How are your graduates doing in high school and beyond? What was the experience for your players? What did they learn about sportsmanship? 

  • Teach young players to play basketball over running plays. 
  • Your short rotation and eight hours of practice per week will beat our team with thirteen players and three hours of practice. Every time. 
  • Screaming at the officials because you didn't get every call is embarrassing. 
  • Pressing up thirty points is also disturbing.
  • Running up the score "because you can" against the bottom of our roster must feel so gratifying. 
Make the team and player experience positive. Add value in developing players and modeling excellence in teaching, behavior, and sportsmanship. 

But you weren't the guy who put starters back in with three minutes left against our subs so you could win by 25 instead of 15. And you weren't the guy with three six-foot girls in 7th grade who said, "we would have beaten you if we made any shots." And you didn't get tossed in the first 45 seconds screaming at the refs when the score was 0-0 and nothing had really happened. Or you weren't the coach who knocked out four of our seventh graders with injury playing 'gorilla basketball' even though you still lost. 

Don't be the guy who humiliates himself thinking he has humiliated the other team. 

Lagniappe. Learn the reads. 

Lagniappe 2. Practical magic with advantage... 


 


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