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[Terry RansburyParticipant]

Very open Brian and much appreciated. I see that your assistant coach measures and gives you possession percentage in real time from the sideline (an not from post-game video analysis). I was wondering what you do with the video of the game and how you present the insights to the players? Does the team watch the whole game? Do you make a hi/lo-light set? Every game? It would be very interesting to see a video (with mic of course) of you presenting the video information to your players.

[GaryKeymaster]

Hi Paul,

One question was in regards to the opponent, were they instructed by their coach to stop chasing the ball during your team’s build up or was it simply them getting tired?

Generally, both situations happen. 1) Opponent instructed to sit back and/or 2) Team that’s been chasing gets exhausted in the 2nd half, and they stop chasing.

This game in particular, we’ve been told that coach will regularly sit back. I’m sure the players were instructed on where to put their line of confrontation.

Obvious what I need to do more of is again running the activities at nauseum and insisting on speed of play that is at a level that basically creates a lose/lose situation for the opponent.

Yes! 🙂

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[GaryKeymaster]

Hi Andrew,

5 subs, no reentry
Here’s the match report:
http://ussda.demosphere.com/MatchReports/60852305/4333940.html

Good observations, and absolutely this team’s got a looooong way to go!
There’s so much context to share regarding this team, but I think the primary thing to focus on here is that this is what the product can look like after several months of Brian executing the methodology.

[Hans SchneiterParticipant]

Most coaches would have been happy with the way Chivas played the ball out of the back and would now move on to the obvious deficiencies in midfield and attack.  However, I noticed Brian’s frustration with Blake and Nigel that they weren’t dropping off and that they had no “awareness”.  This was really limiting the Chivas attack going forward because it allowed San Juan to shift and stay compact.  The best insight so far that I have gained from watching Brian is that idea of mastery and not being satisfied with just “getting it” at a basic level.  Continue hammering until they are gold!

• This reply was modified 10 years, 7 months ago by  Hans Schneiter.
• This reply was modified 10 years, 7 months ago by  Hans Schneiter.

[Stephen TownsendParticipant]

I really enjoyed listening to Brian’s comments during halftime. I loved how he got the kids to take ownership of their identity. Are we keeping the ball ?  Are we winning the ball back high up the field ? On a couple of occasions the players sounded unsure if they were doing enough and Brian had to reassure them that they were,  giving them the confidence to play. I found it interesting  when at one point Brian got frustrated but mentioned to his assistant that they hadn’t rehearsed that particular pattern of play so that he was not going to say anything to them. At the end of the match, after a drop off in their play he still provided constructive points yet maintained that level of accountability, everything was calm and focused. I often find myself struggling to find the right words to say to the boys at these moments, this video has helped me enormously, thanks for posting it.

[Ryan OttenParticipant]

After watching this video, I did a little self-evaluating as a coach… what is too much coaching as opposed to coaching the correct amount? I have always been told I “over coach” my players, but essentially what I do was what Brian did for his team. I personally thought the coaching points where spot on and where constantly reinforced!

“Over Coaching” is there such a thing? If there is a thing such as “over coaching”, does it kill player creativity?

Just playing a little devil’s advocate

[Eric DykesParticipant]

Ryan-

I am a noisy coach as well and Id like to think that I yell appropriate reminders and phrases that are key to the development of my players.

 

I think Gary addressed this in one of his 3four3 posts. He stated that when your training 5 days a week the coaches tend to be more silent, but their belief is that with 2 days a week its our job to yell instructions to demand a type of play. Remind them of their assignments etc.

 

Ive been around SO many different coaches with different styles. If the coach knows what he/she is doing, has the genuine best interest of the players  in mind and doesnt destroy the creativity of the player then any style will do. With that said the silent coaches will be more accepted by the masses than the loud one as loudness can be miss understood as yelling at a kid and some people including players can turn off to it.

 

 

[Justin BoatmanParticipant]

I have a little story on the topic of “sitting and watching” or “overcoaching” during a match. My GU11 team had been preparing for a big tournament and had a great 2 weeks of training prior to the tournament. In our first match we were matched up against a really strong opponent but I just had a great feeling about my team…..I could feel they were prepared and ready to play really well.

As the game started I sat down on the bench and just “let them go”…..I didn’t say a word and they were on their own. They played the best match I had ever seen them play!! They were playing out of the back, combining all over the place and just thrashed the other team 5-0! I couldn’t believe it….they played SOOO well! I “let them go” all tournament long and we ended up losing in the semis to the eventual winner 2-1. Overall, it was their best tournament ever. I thought, “I’ve got this figured out. They just need to be “let go” during the matches and were golden!”

Fast forward 2 weeks later and we are in another tournament. First match is against an opponent we should beat fairly easily. Well, the whistle blows and I “let them go” and didn’t say a word. Well, after falling behind 4-0 at HALFTIME, and eventually losing 5-0, I realized that me talking or not talking was not the key to their success. In hindsight, we had had a poor week of preperation leading up to this tournament and it didn’t matter what I said, we were not going to play well in this tournament.

So my theory now….I kinda go by the feel of the game. Does it look like they need more instruction or less instruction? Are they doing the things we worked on in training? Do they need reminders? I like to sit and watch for a little bit and get a feel for what I think they need. If they are doing a bunch of good things, I “let them go” and watch them do their thing. But if they aren’t performing the way I think they should, I’m up and coaching them along.

I definitely learned that the coaching leading up to the match is much more important than the coaching during the match. Not that coaching during a match isn’t important, but I believe the coaching during training is WAY more important.

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