Turn the corner 🧠 One thing i find incredibly frustrating as a coach watching junior basketball in QLD, is the mentality of some coaches who want kids to run plays - at the expense of making reads and decisions. “Run my play , don’t shoot unless i tell you to do so, and pass to our “best player” 🙅🏻‍♂️ If you waiver from my instruction- you will then get benched 💆🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ You are killing kids learning, and their confidence. You must allow them to make decisions, even if they make the wrong decision at times. That’s learning, and that’s teaching. Dribble hand off sets is a perfect example of the issue i see, where kids get open probably 80% of the time on the 2nd hand off in sets, mostly because defensive rotation is horrendous, and very few coaches teach kids to defend. But - after that 2nd hand off , Even though they have a clear advantage, and can turn the corner, or attack the FT line , kids are afraid to make a mistake, so instead robotically just continue to do ...