Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Informatio On Mad Cow Disease

Scouting

As with most things in life, every coach has a method, and each method, an intricate operation that sets him apart from his colleagues for the way he talk to his players, matches and training direct or prepare for each meeting.

I think it is no secret that players are not too attractive video sessions before and after a game. And yes, we know that is an essential and absolutely necessary for the preparation of a party, but even so, the natural tendency of the player causes you to feel uncomfortable if you leave the environment better known: the court.

For this reason, many coaches tend to accommodate these meetings so that the relationship 'time employee information provided " is as balanced as possible and to achieve more effectively transmit data that will be useful to the computer to correct errors, attacking and defending the opposing team, etc, etc. However, sometimes the concept of balance of some coaches may exceed the limits of what is humanly tolerable, and in others, leaving players with a strange sense of videus interruptus. Of course, this situation is rare, although I must confess that over my career, I had a coach who was a staunch supporter of the technique, which, on one occasion, and I swear this is true, we We had to beg to continue watching a video because we felt somewhat insecure after seeing a total of about 8 or 9 minutes of footage on the opposing team.

But on the other hand, there is nothing more discouraging than arriving at the club on a Sunday afternoon, after losing a match, and assist, desolate, in that moment when the coach puts the video tape and just at the moment when the referee throws the ball in the initial jump, hear a brief " for! " and image of the ball is frozen in the air, as our expressions, so that the coach spent the next 15 minutes explaining why we misplaced reasons for fighting. Then, the players look at each other and, without speaking, with only a sad look accomplice, corroborated each other the bad start of a meeting that promises to be as long as the training that will follow in the week.

often coaches accompany these talks with a portfolio consisting of photocopied sheets which include information on the opposing team, player by player, and their systems. A custom imported from the U.S., where for decades called deliver real billets 'scouting reports' in detailing the trends and vices mm (field) of each player the other team.

passion for detail in the NCAA is such that it generates an excessive desire to innovate to the absolute limits. So, while playing at the University of Texas A & M could not get over my amazement at seeing every game day, we had to make a choice test on the scouting we had given the coaching staff the previous day and answer 10 questions about the content. True. Suddenly, I was sitting in a dimly lit room, under the strict supervision of a trainer named Mitch Buonaguro, a character worthy of inclusion as an extra in 'The Soprano', "gesturing to a companion to me' blow 'voice down to which side he preferred such a feint or Chauncey Billups Paul Pierce liked to cross a boat out in his insights. Something that should not inspire much confidence in my preparation for the party to whom I had the signs but, of course, was infinitely better to stop examination and not leave after the game.

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