Teach Them To Love The Game

GREAT READ FOR YOUTH COACHES.  THIS WAS COPIED FROM A BASKETBALL PAGE ON FACEBOOK AND WAS WRITTEN BY A HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL COACH.

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I know a lot of you ask about the specifics of strategy and ask about plays and drills and what not. But allow me to make a plea from us high school coaches who will get these young players you are currently coaching.

PLEASE HELP THEM LOVE THE GAME.

Whatever that means, at the end of the day, and by the time they move on to high school they still love the game, then from our (high school coaches) perspective you have done your job. 

I say this because I cant tell you how many freshman we get who come into our school who played in junior high but didn't have a good experience or didn't like it and are not excited to play high school.

Dont get me wrong its nice when incoming freshman have been taught to play ball and know the game, but more often times than not we need kids who are eager to play and grow their knowledge of the game. We need more girls playing basketball. The amount of girls trying out, (even at big major schools) are dropping big time.

So that is why I plead for you to make their basketball experience as good as possible. regardless of how they played or how many wins they got. Did they genuinely enjoy the game enough to want to continue to play?

Thank you for your time.