By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
In EuroLeague’s latest “Coaches Corner” installment, great Zeljko Obradovic wrote about one important aspect of the coaches’ job, the players’ motivation and the team’s psychology. In his blog, the experienced Fenerbahce coach analyzed how important it really is to build a strong relationship with your players, how concentrated the coaches themselves must be and touched on many more subjects.
“Whenever there is a mistake, I want to know why it happened so I can help the players, and make sure it doesn’t happen again. There is a difference between a mistake, which is normal, and the same mistake happening again. So you have to make the players understand they cannot make the same mistake twice” he noted.
The Serb coach also wrote: “It’s very important that all the players also have personal ambition. This is good. They want to be good players, score a lot of points and do everything on the court. This is normal and we want to have ambitious players who are hungry. But there is a line between ambitious and selfish, and that line cannot be crossed. The question is this: Why do you play basketball? And the answer should be the team. Always the team”.