How involved should you become

[Hawks Coach]

Originally posted by Fifth And Goal
I've often wondered why coaches continue to let their kids throw baseball outlet passes and jack threes with a 20 point lead. It seems to me that if there's no shot clock, the more time you can run off, the better your chances for victory.

Oh well. I've never coached before, so I should probably keep my mouth shut.

The latter is most definitely true You really don't know what we are trying to accomplish.

Maybe we are practicing an uptempo game and want to keep it going. If you live off the three, and you are working with shooters that you want to shoot without thinking about it, you take the three every time it is there. Maybe this is the first time your shooter has been hitting in three weeks and you want to keep that groove going.

I took a walk-it-up-the-court team and went uptempo last year. I guarantee you that for six months it was never anything but push the tempo. We would stop pressing at leads of about 25 points, but never less than that. And we still ran every time we got the ball.

You can't control who you play, but changing what your team is doing to a different philosphy is not a great idea, IMO. If you have a delay game you want to practice, so be it. Do it for a quarter if it gets something done that you want done. But you gotta get what you can and need from your games, regardless of who you are playing.