Coaching: Is It Really For Me?

Where do I start with coaching? What was I thinking? The girls are unmotivated and armed with bad attitudes. Looking for someone to blame other than themselves for their losing season. Where else to turn other than their coaches. Coaching adds another two hours of teaching a day. I love the game of basketball so much. I feel like the girls are sucking that love out of me. Coaching is suppose to relieve the stress of teaching but it only makes it worse. I have about four girls who are truly motivated and who I believe truly love the game. Two of which are freshman with very little basketball skills. But these girls have some of the biggest basketball hearts I have ever seen. Through this losing season I can see improvements in their game everyday. They try so hard. They hustle and work hard everyday in practice. Just hoping to improve their skills. Now at the end of the season I can see their great improvements. The other girl is a senior who has not played organized basketball since she was in middle school. She has also came a long way. She can now get a rebound without falling down or traveling. She has very limited skills but she plays with great passion for the game. She has learned to hit a lay up and catch the ball. She has also added a head fake to her game. At five feet six inches, she is greatly undersized for the post position. But a big heart is one thing she does possess. The other girl has all the talent and ability in the world. She is a five foot eleven guard who can shoot, drive, rebound, post up, and handle the ball. She does it all for us. She brings the ball down the court and goes to post up. She has a great heart, but she lacks the work ethic. She carries our team. If she play well; we play well. She also has a great passion for the game, but she has no help. She also handicaps herself. If her best friend is not on the floor then she doesn’t play. Her best friend play no defense, takes awful shot, turns the ball over like it is second nature, on top of that she has an awful attitude. This girl has the talent but thinks nothing is ever her fault. She is also very lazy. Although I have spoke of a lot of negative, there are some positives. I truly care about my girls and hope they succeed in everything they do. I now know the dos and don’ts of head coaching. I am not sure if I want to coach again. I will always love the game of basketball, but I do not think coaching is for me. I could maybe coach eight to eleven year olds, who hopefully will have no attitudes. All they will possess is the want to learn and play the game. Maybe I can instill in them the same love and passion that I possess for the game. Maybe they will go on to be great players.