Specifically aiming this question towards D2 coaches who have won a championship.

Was there anything that you learned or changed about coaching that you feel like elevated you from a good coach to a great coach.

Thanks

Lots of little things like scouting efficiency, how zone works, understanding how important stamina and fatigue are, etc. Honestly, probably the most valuable thing to me, in terms of hard wins and losses, was when I really started to look at the available efficiency metrics in the player game plan when setting the distribution; a number of ways to do it, but I like to take the PPG and divide it by the Off%, and use that to fine tune the distribution as the season goes along. And defensively, it shows me not only how my opponents are trying to score, but how they are effectively scoring.

I'm not sure I can speak to be being a great coach, but I can tell you that I've often found that teams I'm high on underperform while teams I'm worried about over perform (significantly) vs my expectations. This has really helped me to break up some of my own predispositions about what can be successful.

Perception can be a powerful stumbling block. One year I was fretting about my team ahead of the tournament and another player told me "your PG can win you a championship by himself". And damned if he wasn't right.

Posted by marl_karx on 5/31/2023 9:38:00 PM (view original):
I'm not sure I can speak to be being a great coach, but I can tell you that I've often found that teams I'm high on underperform while teams I'm worried about over perform (significantly) vs my expectations. This has really helped me to break up some of my own predispositions about what can be successful.

Perception can be a powerful stumbling block. One year I was fretting about my team ahead of the tournament and another player told me "your PG can win you a championship by himself". And damned if he wasn't right.

You are most definitely a great coach.

I am two bad years, then two first-round exits kind of coach. I need to make some changes.

Posted by Fregoe on 6/1/2023 5:06:00 PM (view original):
I am two bad years, then two first-round exits kind of coach. I need to make some changes.

fatigue my man, fatigue...

Posted by Fregoe on 6/1/2023 5:06:00 PM (view original):
I am two bad years, then two first-round exits kind of coach. I need to make some changes.

I like to call myself the "King of the 2nd Round Loss"

D2 coach that (almost) won it this season in Tark. I felt the biggest change from a good coach to a great coach was learning how to recruit elite D1 players by abusing promised start for positions of need. I certainly have my own quirks that I can't easily share, but that's the one change that made my Dominguez Hills team elite.