Defensive Evolution | Part IV

#ecRACAchat • #EssentialEvolution Series

Priority: Speed

Q1: Reflection

The speed of your team’s individual and group decision making, action, and recovery is the driver to your defense’s success.

Otherwise, why would we refer to defense as not about athleticism but rather heart and brains?

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Q2: Awareness

Time to get a little uncomfortable — we ask our players to do it, so let’s do it here.

How do you “contribute or contaminate”?

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Q3: Clarity

Asking this question should prompt you to ask your players this question.

Viewing our programs through our #EssentialPriorities decreases variability and complexity to achieve clarity.

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Q4: Alignment

This question hits at the heart of the art of coaching — how do we maximize while minimizing.

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Q5: Congruence

Your eyes lie to you all the time. Stats can only take you so far.

Dig deeper into how you will do this. There’s no right answer or one way, but there has to be something other than the box score or Synergy/Hudl.

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