Part IV: How Coaches Suppress Players Skills
Through out the years of hoop career it is crazy the amount of gifted players that I have seen their whole game suppressed by coaches. I’ve know tons of players that are open gym killers, but then it gets to school ball and they are just another hooper on the team. Why is this, these coaches fill their heads with so many things they can’t do the players don’t know what they can actually do anymore. It has been my observance that coaches on the whole bring talent on a team closer together. Think about it, if you have a coach telling one player (who can really dribble and get to the basket), you dribble too much, stop dribbling. So after a struggle of trying to get the coach to let him play his game the player eventually gives it up and stops using his ability. Now when you see this kid play it doesn’t even seem as if the player has that ability to get to the basket or it doesn’t even seem as if that player is a skilled dribbler. Now you have another player on the team that can’t dribble a lick or get to the basket if his life depended on it. Unless the coach is a total clown (which is not impossible especially in this hoop era) the coach is most likely going to tell this player not to dribble much either. Now you have two players that are barely using their dribble unless it is to improve a passing lane or to simply just move the ball because this is the only time the coaches wants the player to use his dribble. Since either of these players rarely dribbles to the common human eye these players look as if they have a similar skill set. When in fact one kids skill set is head over heels better then the others, however the coach has suppressed one players skills so severely that two players start to have a similar game or play to the same level. I feel that coaches just don’t bring there teams talent level to a common ground; they actually bring the whole level of skill and ability down. Instead of bringing the level of skill up, these coaches choose to bring the level down. What ever happened to rising to the competition, what is up with these foolish coaches? I’ve seen so many players in my day with very skilled skill sets, not be able to use their skills. I’ve know plenty of players who can shoot deep 3’s and hit on a consistent basis, I’ve seen plenty that can come off the dribble and shoot and hit all day, I’ve seen many who can get to the hole when ever they want, but then these gifted players get put in this coaches system, and these players look as if they got the same skill set as Marc “I serve the Water” , the bum sitting at the end of the bench who ends up starting because he literally rides the coach and his system to the end. The sad thing is some of these talented players eventually loose their skills. Think about it, especially if a player plays for a coach for a few years, every year the coach tells the kid not to use his skills that skill the kid has is becoming less and less polished until the kid really doesn’t have that skill anymore, unless he continues to put in hard individual work to keep that certain skill up. I feel that there are a lot of coaches out there that complain about talent level, and feel as if they don’t get enough talented players. Well what these ignorant fools need to see is that they might just have more talented players then they think, however they suppress the best players skills. Of course if you take a players strengths away and make them play on their weakness’s how good are they going to look. Probably about as good as the bum they got at the end of the bench, that the coach will end up playing over the skilled player because the bum is terrible and is willing to do whatever the coach wants to play. What does the coach want, for a player to just pass and run his system, and why wont the bum not play the way the coach wants him, he doesn’t have a skill set to play any other way. The coach tells him don’t dibble, the kid thinks to his bum self “Well I can’t dribble”, the coach tells him don’t shoot the bum thinks to himself ‘well I really cant shoot. Now the talented player hears the coach telling him all these things not to do, and he is looking at the coach with a straight face but thinking in his head, “Man this coach is a fool” Doesn’t he know I can get to the rack all day, doesn’t he know I can spray this trey ball all day. I’m starting to believe these coaches don’t see this. I always figured coaches should at least be able to see the obvious. But I guess not, so maybe as players we need to start telling these coaches. Coach, or fool which ever you prefer at the time, I can shoot coach, I can shoot, I just hit 8 threes in a row I can shoot. Coach I can get to the basket. I just drove to the lane the last 4 times and scored a bucket as easy as 1, 2, 3, 4. Coach I am better then this bum you are playing over me. I played the kid five times one on one and beat the clown every time like he stole something. He didn’t even score three of the games coach, how can you ever think to play this kid over me, the kid can’t hold my strap. I know you’re a fool, you obviously are not seeing the game clear, maybe players need to start cleaning these coaches clocks out, then just maybe over time they will start seeing the game the way its is suppose to be seen, they won’t see it with blind folds over their eyes anymore. But then again, maybe I’m the fool, but I’m just letting you know how I’ve seen the game over my 23 years, just looking at my playing years thru my rear view.
It’s a cold world, Pack your own heat.
Through out the years of hoop career it is crazy the amount of gifted players that I have seen their whole game suppressed by coaches. I’ve know tons of players that are open gym killers, but then it gets to school ball and they are just another hooper on the team. Why is this, these coaches fill their heads with so many things they can’t do the players don’t know what they can actually do anymore. It has been my observance that coaches on the whole bring talent on a team closer together. Think about it, if you have a coach telling one player (who can really dribble and get to the basket), you dribble too much, stop dribbling. So after a struggle of trying to get the coach to let him play his game the player eventually gives it up and stops using his ability. Now when you see this kid play it doesn’t even seem as if the player has that ability to get to the basket or it doesn’t even seem as if that player is a skilled dribbler. Now you have another player on the team that can’t dribble a lick or get to the basket if his life depended on it. Unless the coach is a total clown (which is not impossible especially in this hoop era) the coach is most likely going to tell this player not to dribble much either. Now you have two players that are barely using their dribble unless it is to improve a passing lane or to simply just move the ball because this is the only time the coaches wants the player to use his dribble. Since either of these players rarely dribbles to the common human eye these players look as if they have a similar skill set. When in fact one kids skill set is head over heels better then the others, however the coach has suppressed one players skills so severely that two players start to have a similar game or play to the same level. I feel that coaches just don’t bring there teams talent level to a common ground; they actually bring the whole level of skill and ability down. Instead of bringing the level of skill up, these coaches choose to bring the level down. What ever happened to rising to the competition, what is up with these foolish coaches? I’ve seen so many players in my day with very skilled skill sets, not be able to use their skills. I’ve know plenty of players who can shoot deep 3’s and hit on a consistent basis, I’ve seen plenty that can come off the dribble and shoot and hit all day, I’ve seen many who can get to the hole when ever they want, but then these gifted players get put in this coaches system, and these players look as if they got the same skill set as Marc “I serve the Water” , the bum sitting at the end of the bench who ends up starting because he literally rides the coach and his system to the end. The sad thing is some of these talented players eventually loose their skills. Think about it, especially if a player plays for a coach for a few years, every year the coach tells the kid not to use his skills that skill the kid has is becoming less and less polished until the kid really doesn’t have that skill anymore, unless he continues to put in hard individual work to keep that certain skill up. I feel that there are a lot of coaches out there that complain about talent level, and feel as if they don’t get enough talented players. Well what these ignorant fools need to see is that they might just have more talented players then they think, however they suppress the best players skills. Of course if you take a players strengths away and make them play on their weakness’s how good are they going to look. Probably about as good as the bum they got at the end of the bench, that the coach will end up playing over the skilled player because the bum is terrible and is willing to do whatever the coach wants to play. What does the coach want, for a player to just pass and run his system, and why wont the bum not play the way the coach wants him, he doesn’t have a skill set to play any other way. The coach tells him don’t dibble, the kid thinks to his bum self “Well I can’t dribble”, the coach tells him don’t shoot the bum thinks to himself ‘well I really cant shoot. Now the talented player hears the coach telling him all these things not to do, and he is looking at the coach with a straight face but thinking in his head, “Man this coach is a fool” Doesn’t he know I can get to the rack all day, doesn’t he know I can spray this trey ball all day. I’m starting to believe these coaches don’t see this. I always figured coaches should at least be able to see the obvious. But I guess not, so maybe as players we need to start telling these coaches. Coach, or fool which ever you prefer at the time, I can shoot coach, I can shoot, I just hit 8 threes in a row I can shoot. Coach I can get to the basket. I just drove to the lane the last 4 times and scored a bucket as easy as 1, 2, 3, 4. Coach I am better then this bum you are playing over me. I played the kid five times one on one and beat the clown every time like he stole something. He didn’t even score three of the games coach, how can you ever think to play this kid over me, the kid can’t hold my strap. I know you’re a fool, you obviously are not seeing the game clear, maybe players need to start cleaning these coaches clocks out, then just maybe over time they will start seeing the game the way its is suppose to be seen, they won’t see it with blind folds over their eyes anymore. But then again, maybe I’m the fool, but I’m just letting you know how I’ve seen the game over my 23 years, just looking at my playing years thru my rear view.
It’s a cold world, Pack your own heat.
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