Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Wonder if it’s their joystick coaching?

What is joystick coaching?
Removing any spontaneity from the athletes by controlling every move they make from the sidelines. It's great for winning games at younger ages, but terrible for building sports IQ for the long term. If your coach is constantly calling plays on every offensive possession, deciding who gets to take it in, against which defender, and when, congrats, you have a joystick coach.

I have to disagree slightly as many parents liken sets to plays. Good coaches at this age call "sets" that give the girls structure and teaches them how to cut, play off each other, etc. Too many times you see coaches just allowing "free" play and you see girls taking space from a drive, cutting at the same time as another cutter, driving into 2-3 girls. I hear too many times parents arguing for "free" play and to be honest it is usually the parents of kids with lower IQs, an inability to grasp a concept or set, inability to play a team game. These are the same kids that will struggle come HS. I wish more coaches would teach sets that build off each other and teach the girls how to play a team concept game while understanding their roles given the situation.