Assumptive Coaching | Don't Assume, Don't Complain - Teach and Coach Them Up!
Have you ever been frustrated because your athletes can't perform certain skills that you feel like they SHOULD know or be able to do but can't? Assumptive coaching assuming that the athletes that we get already know how to do something. It's very dangerous to assume that anyone already knows anything, and we shouldn't punish or belittle our athletes because they weren't taught something that we feel like they should have been taught. I got my start in coaching at a junior college in Oklahoma. I was fortunate that the head coach that I worked for broke down the game each year for all of our players to the basics. We would spend the first few weeks working on triple threat, shot fakes, jab steps, jump stops, and lay-up footwork like we were at a camp for beginners; we even had the guys get in lines like we were at camp the first week to teach the basic fundamentals. My head coach said that he never assumed that any of these college athletes knew anyth...