A few quick thoughts - 16:51, 14/10/2015

A few quick thoughts on this -1. does this mean it only works for ofnfese exclusively? Ib4ve been developing my perspective on this, with the team Ive been coaching for quite a few seasons now and i found it, to be a tad difficult for the players, to administrate, when they were younger. Taking responsiblity, making adjustments on ofnfese, with or without tob4s. In my opinion, the ofnfese is the most difficult thing to teach, especially with new players. (new to basketball, that is) But since I still wanted to give them some kind of responsibility from the very beginning I began implementing it on defense first. They were old enough to have the zone as an option, with the league-rules, and so on. So for us, in games, we started building our character on defense, switching things up, or even small things as changing match-ups in-game or forcing someone right, even though itb4s towards the middle, if the playerb4s really lefthanded eg.. Today, though, such a time-out as you described with Wilbek, will probably happen once or twice every single game for us. 2. so how do you do it?Well, to me, it starts with practice, like everything else and again, it comes down to the smallest of things. Maybe giving different players a small portion of different practices, to work as coaches instructing and administrating drills from a given topic, can seem like a waste of time, especially if the team youb4re coaching is playing to win, say, a championship in u16 or similar BUT investing a small portion of your practice in this, over a longer period of time, will definately pay off bigtime.We also use the playerb4s to coach eachother in practice. Giving immediate feedback, while the drill is progressing, but also before and after. We have an established, but not final, hierachy on the team, and the more experienced guys could probably teach a drill pretty much like I would, word for word almost this creates the open window for letting us let the players have more of a say. 3. coach-player relationOne challenge, that becomes crystal clear, when you start working with this type of coaching-style, is that the coach has to take a step back, and let the players figure things out on their own. Coach can step in, when the team is treadmilling , but all in all, he has to let the players make mistakes, then maybe stop and talk, to see, if the players are able to figure out what went wrong. It can be awfully painfull in the beginning, to watch the team disentegrate into chaos and anarchy in the They will get better over time though.0. It is also equally important, that you let the players know your change of strategy and approach each time you are going to do it. This goes for all coaching , as a teaching form, the transparency of YOU, that lets the players know, that it is up to them, to figure something out from within , via logical deduction and creativity. Not because you donb4t know, or even have a meaning, but because they have to go though the process of knowing, so they know WHY they know. Itb4s about bigger insight, and itb4s about honing their problem-solving-on-the-spot kind of skills.What kind of drills do you use, for implementing this with you team, Mads?