Making calls out of your primary area

[bbcoach7]

Interesting to me several references to learning to not watch the ball. My first year coaching I had to learn to stop following the basketball. I recal it seemed to take most of the year and a little bit of my 2nd season before I could consistently follow the action away from the ball. Then later when I coached my own kid, I had to train myself to not just watch my kid.

I have no chance of ever figuring out what the opponent is doing on offense and defense unless I watch the action away from the ball. Players think they really know & understand the game from playing so much. I thought I did. But there's so much more to know, especially when you start figuring out and learning other systems.