Before any further posts I want to know if the OP is a coach, has ever coached or are you just a disgruntled and confused parent who wants to move teams but instead decided to post this drivel?

And when that doesn't work, what's plan C?

Coach and parent like most coaches. Basketball player as well and just simply asking a question. I guess its coaches who have responded and obviously not willing to have a think and assuming it is an annoying parent again. Thats an issue in itself. Just looking for thoughts and conversation on do coaches sometimes take it too far. Looking to learn not cause an antiparent thread again.

Plan C is to try plan a if that doesn't work go to b and then review a and b and then get to work on finding a solution.

If you were looking for discussion perhaps the tone of your initial post could have been a little less derogatory and belittling of coaches

There are plenty of coaches who don't have a plan A. There are plenty who have a plan A and that's it. Their players have to fit in with their plan and they can't adapt on the fly. Those coaches generally aren't too successful.

In any decent level of basketball there has to be some form of structure for a team to be good and win regularly. You also have to be able to adapt. When I'm coaching against you my players are doing everything they can to make your players MAKE plays, not RUN plays.

With any structure the players also have to have the freedom and confidence to play what's in front of them and make plays. The way I like to coach is to break the shoot clock up into sections. The first 8 seconds belong to the players. Run, push the ball, look for an easy one or an open 3 in transition (of course they also have to have the discipline to understand the game situation and if pushing isn't appropriate at that time). The next 8 seconds we share. We have plays that they like and fit our personnel and get us good shots with rebounders in position. The last 8 seconds are mine and we run very structured plays to get the shot we want with the shot clock running out

Then there's the days where none of that works......

Don't want my post to be seen as coach bashing as my kid has had some good coaches over the years.

However, my kid played in several winning National Championship underage teams, played in several winning VC Championship teams including VJBL Classic & Eltham Dandenong tournaments, played in Australian Junior teams and OVERWHELMINGLY IMHO, the majority of coaches my kid has played for try to control their players too much.

That's been my kid's experience and my observations. At times my kid has even said "Dad, the coach won't let me play".

There's also the issue of coaches having and playing favorites. Not that my kid really suffered with that, but it goes on too much and there should be no place for it, except at the State level and above.

There's been many kids who make a lot of state junior teams but go nowhere and there's been many kids that don't make state junior teams but go onto College, NBL, etc.

Coaches, please be honest with yourselves, how many of your plays do your team score from? Or do you score more from your team's ability to read and react or some individual creativeness or brilliance?