A Tale Of Two Basketball Coaches

When a passion dies, it is the most heartbreaking thing there is. A coach who has killed my passion has their favorites, makes me feel worthless, and only cares about the girls who she thinks are the best. No matter how hard I worked in practice, it would never be good enough for them.

Coaching happens all over the world and for all sports and at any age. With coaching being everywhere there will be bad coaches. One instance was when coach Raul Aragon got frustrated with an umpire at a baseball game and was thrown out. He than chased the umpire around until police arrived, he was coach of an 8 year old baseball team. Another experience with a bad coach is when Kevin Pope, an assistant football coach, was pointing a bb gun at a player for having bad grades. (Mark McCarter, 'Terrible Coaches' has too many unbelievable stories even for

Coaching basketball is about strategizing and directing the movements and actions of a basketball team or individual player. Coaches strategize and scout opposing teams and find ways to defeat them as easily as possible. A successful basketball coach needs to now the understanding of how to play the game. A basketball coach must be able to manage the duties of the job by recruiting the top players, get them in shape, make a team, motivate players and teach them how to play the game of basketball. Coaching is usually done by a single person, with the help of one or more assistants. A coach is the face of the team, helping it achieve the public relations goals of the organization and build a positive image that will improve recruiting. (Edmunds). A coach is responsibiable for setting up and an environment so that the team can use its skills and abilities to their full potential. Therefor a coach has to make a game plan for each game, so that his team will be ready for the next opponent. A coach has to know his team and the opponent abilities to be able to match his team up with the opponent. A coach must know to mix the players who can start right away and players he can develop into starters. A coach may want to put 12-15 players on the roster just in case of injuries. To get ready for the season the coach starts putting in offensive and defensive plays the will run and teach the players situational plays to fit the team style and running practices. During a game a coach has

With the right influence, communication and skill development is the key to a valuable coach. Without my two outstanding high school coaches, I wouldn’t have the love for basketball and track the way I do today. They have taught me everything I needed to know for the present, along with tips for the future. Coach Lewis and Coach Kohler have done more for me than what I’ve ever deserved and I will never be able to pay them back for all their help and encouragement. But I hope they have understanding of how much of a change they can make on someone's life, someone's life like my

Now this point can go either way; while a coach should be able to motivate their players, the players themselves should have an inside motivation of their own. It all goes back to communication. If a coach is not good at communicating their expectations and such with the players, sometimes the players can become uninterested. Even more drastically, there have been cases where a coach was just so bad, it even caused a player to turn away and completely lack motivation to even continue to play the sport (Bornstein 2). All of the above are mostly qualities that a coach must show on the court, but what about off court?

The coach also does not create any positive feedback for the weaker links on the team to work with. Instead of telling the team they ALL did well, the coach focuses on who are the better athletes. As a result, the members feel

People like winners. Many have the philosophy that the underdog should win occasionally. In game of basketball, everyone loves a Cinderella story. Coach Mike Krzyzewski affectionately known as Coach K usually beats all who come in his path on the basketball court. Coach K teaches about life and leadership; his motto is

Growing up, my life consisted playing the game of basketball. Playing the game has taught so many valuable life skills. That’s the main reason for my interest in coaching. I want to teach young people the same things that helped me grow as an athlete and person.

Yanni Hufnagel has gained the reputation of being one of the best basketball recruiters, despite the fact that he was dropped from his high school’s basketball team. That disappointment did not stop Hufnagel, but redirected his energies into serving as color commentator for the team at the local public access television station. As a child, he devoured coaching strategy books. As the color commentator, he gained a reputation for his analytical skills.

Coach Ed Thomas, the heroic football coach from Parkersburg, Iowa, once said, “If all I have taught you is how to block and tackle, then I have failed as a coach.” Coach Rod Conrad, the girls head basketball coach, uses this same philosophy even though he does not coach football. He inspires girls on and off the court through his words and actions. These traits (and many more) are what make Conrad a genuine hero.

He does not assist with athletic issues and is critical of Coach Jones’s leadership skills as the athletic director. He will not work to help coach and grow him. (He is not one of his chosen ones. He does not work well with while males.)

Basketball teams need a coach that believes in them. The team needs a coach that will work hard to help them achieve the goal of winning. They need a coach that communicates and shows interest in each of the players. On the other hand, they need a coach that can be directive, but also supportive. In the case study this week, Shirley was quite the opposite. Conflicting enough, by all appearances she did not have a total grasp of the concept of leadership in coaching basketball. Factors that could cause the lack of leadership could be confidence or even lack of knowledge (Cohen, 2000). In this paper, Shirley’s leadership style and behavior will be discussed, along with looking at situational factors and other leadership styles that

Basketball is a game that involves strategies. Now coaches that are smart and have a high basketball IQ, know how to utilize the method. In the 2014-2015 season Gregg Popovich, amazing coach, had his team the Spurs down by 5 points in the fourth quarter to the clippers. He went to the Hack-A-Shaq and got his team down by only a point. Now next trip the bad free throw shooter, DeAndre Jordan, on the other team was taken out and the Spurs gave up a basket.

The coach is visionary and lives life by adhering to core values. He should have very real strength of character and commitment to personal integrity and honesty.

My topic is similar to yours. I have always been intrigued to examine the relationship between coach and athlete. In my experience, I have found coaches who provide positive support and are constructive with their criticism are more enjoyable to play for and give the athlete a more positive experience. Coaches that come across as condescending seem to push kids away from the game. It is important that the student-athlete has a positive experience, especially student-athletes at a young age. I feel if a student-athlete has a negative experience at the interscholastic level he or she will be less likely to stick with the sport.