Making Moments

Coaches like Scott Celli help take teams to places where they cannot go alone.

Effective coaching:

1) Adds value

2) Puts players in the best position to succeed

3) Helps creates "moments"

Add value. Coaching adds value through your big four of building skill, strategy, physicality, and psychology. Of course, players have a major responsibility, too. It's analogous to surgery...there's the procedure itself and the rehabilitation and recovery which are patient-dependent. 

Work to improve your offseason skill and physicality with the drills available here and elsewhere. 

Position to succeed. Strong teams have the ability to win at home, on the road, and to defeat other capable teams. Scheduling "cupcakes" to improve the record doesn't make teams better AND weak strength of schedule can keep teams out of the playoffs under the new format. 

Consider the Bishop Fenwick basketball team. They finished 18-8 en route to a loss in the state championship. Among their eight losses were seven against the Boston Globe top nine and six against the top five (three to St. Mary's, two to Bishop Feehan, and one versus Cathedral). Melrose volleyball went to the Final Four despite losing all four non-league games. 

"Iron sharpens iron." 

Manufacture moments. Enjoy the process, the day-to-day experience with friends and teammates. It's ephemeral. Make daily improvement and bringing your best self the goals. You don't get a do-over. Enjoy the struggle - shared vision, shared sacrifice, and shared results. 

Lagniappe. Set the captions to on...the video shows good and bad examples.