Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 13 | Issue 658 |
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"OVERCOACHING" (BILL BELICHICK AND JOHN WOODEN) Coach Wooden’s textbook, Practical Modern Basketball, is 452 pages long, yet on the topic of important coaching methods, Coach says: Don't give them too much, but teach well.
To combine the KISS principle (keep it simple, stupid) and achieve the proper execution of many minor details the teacher must select, from their extensive knowledge, the most important items to teach each group of students and within those selected topics, teach the details.
Coach Wooden's comments on over coaching gives some important insight as to how he did this:
Over coaching can be more harmful than under coaching. I think the tendency is for inexperienced coaches to give too much. The younger coach sometimes tries to impress his youngsters with how much he knows. If you over coach you don't do many things well."
Pro Football’s greatest and perhaps most knowledgeable coach, Bill Belichick, put it this way:
"We try to tell the players exactly what we want them to do. Not 800 things to remember. But these are four things you need to do—'this is how we're going to approach this mini-camp; this is how we're going to approach today's practice. When you call the team up at the end of the day or at night, you can say 'here are the four things we talked about in the morning and let's grade that. Let's see where we are today.
That's also for when we go to a game-plan situation as well. So, whoever our next opponent is, the first thing I'll do when I bring the team in is tell them 'Look, these are the four things we have to do to win this game."
When you give people too much information you may confuse them and hurt their ability to execute properly. As John Wooden said: “If you have to think about it, it’s too late."
Are you over coaching?
Yours in Coaching, Craig Impelman
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