Let’s stop being less than the sum of our parts
Let's connect as a Gestalt. Let's create something greater than the sum of our parts. Let's connect for more, not less.
When players are giving all their attention to flawlessly executing their part in a fixed sum of parts, any fragmentation leads to uncharacteristic mistakes, and the team’s performance becomes less than the sum of the parts.
Addressing this challenge isn’t about pushing players to execute their parts with greater precision. Rather, it involves nurturing connections to create something greater than the sum of the parts—a *Gestalt*. Players observe the big picture of what is going on around them, waiting for opportunities to step in and offer previously unseen alternatives as someone’s options begin to dwindle. Players know they have each other's backs as they navigate the unknown, instilling a belief that they can achieve anything together.
However, if players neglect to consistently practice this *Gestalt*, the ability of today's technology to measure parts of a performance will divert players' and coaches attention back to perfecting the execution of parts in a fixed sum of parts. They will lose their ability for Gestalt.
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Younger Teenager - All ability - Mixed - Loreto (23)
Thu 11 Jan
|Loreto College, St Albans
Play basketball - To heighten your sense of space, time, and timing - to better use current technical skills - to create those Wow moments. For the fun of it.
Time & Location
11 Jan 2024, 17:00 – 18:30
Loreto College, St Albans, Hatfield Road, St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 3RQ
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About the event
It is always been about players finding their perfect combination of technical skills, speed, strength, and in-game decision-making. They can't be separated.
When it comes to scouting players it is easier to assess their technical, speed, and strength. Much harder to assess their in-game decision-making. This is especially the case when a player has superior technical, speed, and strength to the players around them. This can lead to players being selected for teams where they have less dominance in terms of technical, speed, and strength - or an injury lowers their dominance - and then their poor in-game decision-making comes to light.
As coaches of in-game decision-making - this is how we assess players...
When a player with good in-game decision-making skills has the ball - they will look at the space behind the player marking them. They will look at what their teammates are doing - and move to…
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