TITLE What Does a Great Assistant Coach Actually Do?
SUBTITLE Nobody hands you a job description, most head coaches never write one, and the assistants who figure it out become impossible to replace.
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Being an assistant is its own craft, not a waiting room for a head job. Coach Collins talks through what the role really asks of you: how to disagree with your head coach the right way and at the right time, how to be the voice a struggling player can actually go to, and how to add value in the areas nobody else has claimed. Useful whether this is your career or your first season holding a clipboard.
What we cover:
Finding the job nobody assigned you and owning it completely
Disagreeing with your head coach in private and backing him in public
Being the assistant players come to, without becoming a shortcut around the head coach
Earning responsibility instead of waiting to be handed it
Preparing for a head job while doing this one well
This week's challenge: Ask your head coach what he wishes somebody on staff would take off his plate, then take it.
Resources: Practice plans, drills, courses, and on court clinics at https://teachhoops.com/
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