The Invisible Gorilla
We all have blind spots, and those blind spots can have real effects on our teams and our athletes. My coaching style is to press and pressure you into mistakes, and then try to convert those mistakes into opportunities. I want my teams and athletes to be smart and versatile, but I also want them to be able to run people out of the gym if they aren't able to keep up. I have a specific way that I like to teach how to pressure, and it usually works, but one season I had a team that couldn't figure out how to rotate the way that I wanted them to rotate, and we struggled. I had an older, mentor coach come in and observe a practice so that I could get another set of eyes on my team and how we can grow in our ability to rotate on defense. The coach immediately saw the problem - we needed to make a small adjustment in the way we set up. I was so locked in with tunnel vision while trying to fit my athletes in the box that I had learned and mastered how to teach, but I didn't realiz...