June 07, 2019   |   Tagged Coaching,

Are you a Significant Basketball Coach

Building strong basketball teams is the job of a significant coach.

All coaches want a successful basketball season and research has proven productivity and long-term success is significantly diminished by fear. Can you name what might cause your players to do be afraid?

The biggest is the fear of loss dreams. The stronger your players and parents need for external significance through success in athletics the more intensified and potentially unhappy your program will become.

A great coach really listens to the dreams of each player and finds ways to educate and equip players to feel empowered to reach those goals. Hopelessness and a spirit of despair cause fear. Fear leads to anger or apathy. It leads to jealousy and bitterness.

In Proverbs it says, “Where there is strife, there is pride but wisdom is found in those who take advice.”

Significant basketball coaches do these three things well:

a. Be a coach who listens and really wants to help eliminate a spirit of fear on your team.

b. Listen to parents—what are their fears? Angry parents are parents who are in pain and afraid. Be curious and listen. Most likely the underlying root of their fear is the need for significance and the need for their son or daughter to be significant.

c. Problem solve basketball significance for your team. How can you create a culture of significance even for those who rarely get playing time? This is the task of a great coach.

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