Analyzing Coach Carter's Style Of Coaching

1. Present an overview of the style of coaching that Mr Carter uses.

Coach carter’s has an authoritarian style of coaching. He is very strong and sticks firmly with his rules and guidelines which makes him the coach he is. As a former basketball player at Richmond high, he seems the most experienced to lead the team. His style of coaching sometimes changes. At first he uses aggressive, commanding style to let them understand that he is the authority figure. This made for the team to accept him as a coach and take him seriously.

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Positive role modelling:

He defiantly displayed positive role modelling with his team. Leading by example Coach Carter encourages the players to not only succeed in basketball but in the education. He cared about

When training, he uses almost aggressive tactics. Other method that he uses is repetition. He introduces the drill with a story that it relates to. For example he introduces a tactic called Diane. This is used for a man-to-man pressure defense. He tells them about his sister who always used to nag him and pressure him to do something. With this, he teaches them the correct way. When the player do not honour the contract that Coach carter set out, he brings them into the library where he encourages them to study. This teaches them that basketball isn’t the most important thing in their life. It should be looking for the future and respecting what needs to be done to help them.

Player motivation:

Motivation is key for success. Coach Carter used techniques such as encouragement, second chances, teamwork, punishment, respect, history, inspiration, and a contract to motivate his athletes. He had to first take charge of the team and then motivate them towards excellence on and off the court. He inspired the players by telling him why he agreed to coach at Richmond. He told them that he wanted to get them into the right direction, into college not prison.

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Richmond high has a bad reputation, and I think Coach Carter thought it would be better for them. It gave them self-worth and self-esteem. Coach Carter’s way was to give the players respect already so if they did abuse his trust and respect he wouldn’t be too upset. If he used the approach of earning respect, it would be a long time before they establish a firm player and coach relationship.

For most age groups, I believe that this is a suitable way of gaining respect. Knowing that the athletes understand that they already have your respect. With older, more experience athletes, gaining respect is essential for started a healthy relationship. Trust still has to be developed but there should be some mutual respect from the start.

For younger grades that I intend to coach, giving them my respect would be the best way to start because it shows them I am fully dedicated to coaching.

5. Richmond loses the championship to St. Francis’, but Coach says his players have won the ‘ever elusive victory’. What do you think that means? How is his point strengthened during the films