How Does It Feel to Be Coached by Me?

Coaching is collaboration. Coaches feel positively about every player on the team as a person, not just as "cogs" in a machine.

Just as coaches work to add value for every player on the team, players should work to add value for every teammate.

A young player who is a freshman or sophomore has to learn a lot:

• Professionalism - being on time, prepared, never a distraction
• Fundamantals - individual skills like platform, runup, armswing
• Collaboration - positioning and communication
• Coverages - where you belong at any given moment
• Teamwork - the capacity to put the team above yourself
• Coachability - learning to take instruction and criticism
• Humility - "star in your role" even when that's low playing time
• Respect - for teammates, coaches, opponents, officials
• Practice - playing hard on the 'stay ready group' improves the starters and impacts winning
• Attitude - "get over yourself" by making others better

This is an incredibly special coaching point here by Brad Stevens

“If something isn’t going well for you right now, make it go well for someone else.”

There is high value in your approach, even when you aren’t playing well

(Via @DrewMaddux 🎥)

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— Hoop Herald (@TheHoopHerald) June 18, 2024

Lagniappe. Learn MUDITA, "your joy is my joy." When you learn to feel happiness for another's success, you grow your joy.