This is going to be a simple post but a key one in our way of offensive thinking. We all have a “best player.” There are a number of times in a game where we may get on our team for not getting the ball to our best player. This is a common timeout message for many teams.
What I want to get you to think about is, as a coach, are you also forgetting about your best player? I know there are times through an 82-game NBA schedule when coaches come in at halftime and get on their teams for not getting the ball to their best scorer, or they mention it to each other in the halftime coaches meeting.
My question is this: if this is important to your success, is it worth having an assistant coach keep a “shot attempts” chart on your best one or two players so that at every timeout you can alert your Head Coach that “Joe hasn’t had a shot in the last 4 minutes.”
I think it’s something worth talking about this summer as you think about next year. If we were all truthful we would probably admit that we have had games where we have lost sight of our best player.
Simply put: are you doing everything possible to allow your best player to play his best? Important question to answer and to strategize about!
