Overcoaching and Being Brief with Your Comments

Key Points

• Your job as a coach is to get your players “out of the way of themselves”
• Players have a tendency to over analyze and overthink, so try and be ”brief” with your comments and not overcoach
• If your player is doing something obviously wrong, you can correct it
• It’s very important to let players figure things out themselves, within the parameters that you set
• If a shot is executed well in practice and matches but the technique isn’t quite right, it’s not always necessary to change it