A YouTube coaching video by Ethan Khoza advising basketball players to take criticism and coaching constructively. Khoza contrasts 'great' vs 'bad' players, arguing that great players accept responsibility, use critique to improve, lead teammates, and never get offended by coaching. He cites Gregg Popovich's Spurs as an example of elite players who handled tough coaching, warns that basketball is highly competitive (noting 2020), and urges viewers to evaluate how they respond to coaching. Ends with calls-to-action to like, subscribe, and join a free private training group.
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Just ride me, baby. What's up guys? Coach Ethan here. Now, if you've watched my channel for any length of time, you understand that I love to dissect the difference between great players and bad players. Because a lot of times the difference isn't even necessarily that much visible. Obviously there's going to be some differences, but a lot of times what it comes down to is the mindset of the player who's great is significantly different than the player who isn't. When we think of a great player, we think of somebody who doesn't mess up on the court. Somebody. Somebody who's always making great plays, always at the right place at the right time. And if somebody who probably doesn't get criticized very often because they're great at basketball. Right. But you have to understand that getting to that level takes a certain type of discipline. If you don't have it, you'll never get to that level. So specifically what I want to talk about is how do you take coaching? Because what separates great players from bad players is that great players take coaching well, they understand what the coach is saying and they apply it. They don't get upset, they don't get offended that a coach is criticizing them. They take what's being given to them and they use it to improve. A bad player gets criticized by a coach and says, oh, this is unfair, why are they picking on me? Blah, blah, blah, blah, all this and they don't get any better from it. Essentially a bad player always wants to blame everybody else. It's their teammates fault, it's their coach's fault for picking on them. It's the defense's fault, it's whatever, it's always somebody else's fault. A great play on the the other hand is going to take responsibility and be able to not only accept when they're wrong, but also take that criticism that they get and improve themselves because of it. So I want you right now to decide which type of player are you? Are you a player who takes criticism well? Are you one who doesn't? Here's how you know. Imagine yourself in this situation and think about what you would do. Let's say you're running through a defensive drill. If you guys have run a shell drill, imagine it like that. Now let's say you're going through the drill, you're on defense and the coach blows the whist and yells at everybody to get on the line because the defense wasn't talking. Now you know that you were talking, but maybe some of your teammates weren't but your coach still makes all the defensive players get on the line and run because he's saying that you guys weren't talking. How do you respond here? Do you respond by getting upset and saying, well, coach, I was talking, blah, blah, all this extra stuff, or do you accept responsibility and say, well, first of all, I could have been talking louder if this was a game and it was a game situation where there's a ton of fans and a lot of noise. No one would be able to hear me if I wasn't talking louder. It was. Is that what you say to yourself? You say to yourself, well, I should have been getting all my teammates to also be talking. I'm sitting there getting mad at them for not talking. But meanwhile, I'm not doing anything proactive about it. I'm not being a leader. I'm not being a person that a coach can trust because I'm not able to get all my teammates about doing the right thing. That's what being a leader is about. That's what being a great player is being about. A great player is not just concerned with themselves. It's about the entire team. A great player knows when they need to take responsibility, which is pretty much for everything. There's never a time, really, in basketball where you can say to yourself, oh, coach is picking on me because it's not true. Because usually you did mess up. Usually there's something you could have done better. And guess what? 99% of times when a coach gets on you about something, it is to make you a better player. So getting offended over it is doing nothing but hurting you going forward. Because now that coach sees, oh, he doesn't want to take coaching. So that means that coach isn't going to coach you as hard, meaning you're not going to be pushed, you're not going to get any better. And you guys need to understand, in 2020, basketball is competitive than it has ever been. Globally, it's more popular than it's ever been before. And there are so many players out there who are really, really good. There are so many guys who can take your spot. There are so many guys who can take coaching, who are going to get better, who might be better athletes than you. And because they're willing to be disciplined, take responsibility, and not be offended when they get coached hard, those kids are going to pass you. They're going to be better than you. And you're going to be sitting there wondering why this guy is better than you, why that guy's better than you, all the while you can't take coaching well. And that's this is something that I can't stress enough to you guys. The best players in the world are the ones who take coaching effectively. If you were to watch those spurs teams with Mano Ginobili, Tony Parker, Tim Duncan, and you watch how Gregg Popovich used to coach those guys, you wouldn't even realize that those guys were championship level players because Gregg Popovich got on them just as much as he would get on the rookie who messed up. Because he expects so much out of his most talented players. He's not going to accept anything less. That's for their benefit as well as the benefit of the team. And look at that. Because of that, they're one of the greatest dynasties of all time and they beat some very, very talented teams. They beat some teams that might have had more talent than them, but they had a bunch of guys who were committed to a system, who were able to be coached hard and had the discipline necessary to be winners. That's what it's all about. So I want you to evaluate how do you take coaching? Do you get offended when a coach accuses you of something that you think you didn't do? Are you able to say to yourself, what can I do to get better from this? What is the coach trying to tell me that is going to help me become a better player? Because I'm telling you, if you do not take coaching well, as you move up and the competition gets better, you'll fall off. I promise you that at some point, no matter how good you are, if you cannot get coached, there are guys who are and there are guys who are just as talented as you that can take coaching and they're going to go leaps and bounds ahead of you because they're able to get better. You're going to stay the same. If you guys enjoyed this video, go and leave a like and subscribe. I want all of you guys right now. Click the link in my description below. Join our private basketball training group. I'm giving you guys free workouts, personal coaching, ton of inclusive stuff, 100% free. Like I said. Link in the description below. Go ahead and click it. Hopefully I'll see you guys in there. Like I said before, if you enjoyed the video, subscribe button right here to make it easy. Guys, I really appreciate it and drop a comment for me below. Let me know what you guys want to see next. That's it guys. Peace. If you can.
