![]() ![]() The ability to develop athletes that can think the game and execute their skills at speed is what makes the great coaches great. The head is where the art + science of effective coaching comes in. Now coaching the head is another ball game (pun only slightly intended). The youngest and only English student among Afrikaners, he suffers torment by. It takes very little time and effort to come up with a formula for coaching the feet. In 1939 in South Africa, five-year-old Peekay is sent away to boarding school. In some ways, it’s like painting by numbers. Those four W’s are so important and are what get to the essence of game intelligence (or what I like to call ‘game sense’).Īs a basketball coach, teaching the technical skills, a new offensive set, or an out-of-bounds play isn’t the hardest part. Where they struggle though, and where we as coaches still struggle, is in teaching the WHO, WHEN, WHERE and WHY. Many basketball players are good at the HOW. In reflection, it’s funny to think about how this quote has shaped my approach as an athlete and now as a teacher-coach. It’s from a book called: The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. Just stumbled across the quote above… I jotted down on, what is now, a tattered piece of paper from some 25 years ago. ![]()
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