rocketrod
Years ago
Learning to play
As a longtime observer of this forum, I thought I would add a perspective that is often ignored in player development.
To simplify the picture, if a game is 40 minutes long, and there are ten players on the court, what is the average amount of time a player will have the ball in his/her hands?
Now that you have done that calculation, what are players meant to be doing the rest of the time? I think players (and parents)in this team game of ours need to be made more aware of all the learning that is required to play well in a team.
Perhaps our volunteer coaches should be given a lot more credit for their teaching than what they commonly receive.
and one last point... a lot of learning does take place adjacent to the game in the sense of training sessions, pre-game, on the bench, and post-game.
