What makes a bad team, bad coaches or bad athletes?  Simple, it's both.

Posted Oct. 26, 2022

By Long Le

Staff Reporter

What makes a bad team, bad coaches or bad athletes?  Simple, it's both. 

In every team sport out there whenever a team loses it would always be blamed mostly on the coach as they’re doing all the shot calls unless it’s an individual sport like tennis or boxing then blame is put mostly on the  athletes. 

But even then, team or individual sports both need competent coaches and athletes alike. The skills of the coach are the following: teaching, listening, empathy, asking questions, and being supportive. Now the athletes have to be physically fit, have technique, communicative, and most importantly dedication. There are other skills that make a good coach or athlete but these are the important ones. 

The relationship of a coach and an athlete is like a knight and their sword. The coach is most definitely useless without their blade, the athletes could still be deadly just lying about on the floor maybe if their opponent would slip and fall on it possibly. But the sword would be much deadlier if it was wielded by skilled users. And eventually lying down on the ground for too long could cause the blade to dull, rust, and the evitable of becoming nothing. So who’s there to keep it sharp, clean, and increase the longevity of the steel? 

This should be told but what makes a good knight and sword is dedication and communication. Disagreement in a team is not detrimental to a team in fact it’s a positive that a team has varying opinions that can improve a team when they can come to an agreement. What’s bad is silent disagreement and disagreements that never become resolved. Because then lack of agreements means lack of commitment.