nice article.
The offseason should allow players to make mistakes, and learn from those mistakes, in an atmosphere that is more relaxed and forgiving.
Any coach who's as an asshat about expecting players to be perfect is a complete moron. Coaching is about growth mindset and how can you have one or want kids to grow if you're always chewing them out and not letting them learn from their mistakes?
"But if you’re running your motion, everyone knows where the next cut is, where the next pass is going, and the kids will, inevitably, get lazy."
Your motion offense should be reads not x goes to this spot, y goes to this spot. I like how your mentor Kelly teaches his read and react. kids make reads how defense and make the proper reads. They could go to a lot of open gyms and be somewhat successful. he's not a total authoritarian (or so it seems). Running motion offense is more benificial when the other team knows what you're doing. This is where the teaching takes place. If you're a good teacher of the game, you'll teach kids to counter the defense and get into open spaces for successful shots.
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