Style of play
比赛的风格
Some coaches are "go" coaches and like the fast-break, full-court press, gambling, trapping, and like the game to be a track meet. This style of play is ideal for a team with lots of quick, athletic players and a deep bench, allowing for lots of substituting. This style is often liked by players, parents and fans because it lets players "play the game" and more players get playing time, helping maintain team harmony.
有些教练是“跑”型教练，喜欢快攻、全场紧逼、赌博抢断、包夹防守，让篮球成为一场田径比赛。这种风格的打法对于有多个快速、敏捷的球员和板凳深度的球队来说是比较理想的，允许大量的轮换。这种风格经常受到球员、他们的父母和球迷的喜爱，因为这样可以让球员“打上比赛”，更多的球员得到上场时间，帮助维持团队的和谐。
Other coaches are "whoa" coaches who like a more deliberate, slower-paced game with little risk taking. This style favors a team with strong inside post players who are better in a half-court type of game, rather than a running game. Teams without quick, great ball-handling guards would do better with this style of play.
其他教练是“吁”型教练，更喜欢一个从容不迫的，节奏较慢的比赛，而且很少去冒险。这种风格适用于拥有一个强大内线球员的球队，他们在半场中表现比整场跑动效果更好。球队如果没有速度快、运球好的控卫，这种风格会更让他们更好发挥。
Teams with very little "bench depth" will be better off too since key players will be able to play more minutes in a slower paced game. Additionally, coaches may feel they have more control over a team that plays this style of game, with more control over each possession.
板凳深度不够的球队也会更好，因为关键球员可以在慢节奏的比赛中多打几分钟。此外，这种风格的比赛教练会觉得他们能更好地控制球队，对每个细节都有更多的控制权。
Flexibility is key here. Some years, you may have race horses and you can use the running game. Other years, you may have mules and bulls and will find the slower paced, inside power game better. Even if you are a coach that structures your entire program on one style of play, you may find that you will need to be flexible in some game situations.
灵活性是关键。有些年，你可能有赛马一样的球员，就可以使用炮轰比赛战术。其他时候，球队里都是小骡子、老黄牛这样的运动员，你会发现节奏较慢的比赛更好。即使你是一个风格单一的教练，你可能会发现在某些情况下也需要灵活多变。
For example, we like to press and run. But when we have a couple of our slower players in the game, we may have to drop the press in favor of good half-court defense.
例如，我们喜欢压迫，但是当我们在比赛中有几个较慢的球员时，我们可能为了半场防守不得不放弃压迫对方。
Although our basic system may be the same from year to year, our play calling will change. Some years, we have a good post player and we will use plays designed to get the ball inside. Other years, our shooting guard or our point guard may be our best player. We will use plays designed to get our best shooters open shots.
虽然我们的基本体系可能每年都是一样的，但是我们的球员也会改变。某些年，我们有一个优秀的内线球员，我们应该在比赛中更好往里打。其他几年，我们的得分后卫或者控球后卫可能是我们最好的球员，我们应该将让我们的射手们更多的空位投篮。

Prepare your team
准备好你的球队
Preparing your team for a game is more important than any courtside game-coaching "wizardry". It's true that good coaching may help determine the outcome of a closely played game, but preparation is much more important. Preparation means teaching kids correct fundamentals and team skills.
为比赛准备好你的球队，比准备好场边的“魔法”更重要。的确，好的教练可能决定一场比赛的胜负，但准备更加重要。做好准备工作，意味着从小就教球员们正确的基本原则和球队技巧。
Having great practices are key as you "play like you practice". If you play and compete hard in practice every day, it's more likely you will play that way in a game. So make your practices competitive and upbeat. Prepare a lesson plan for each practice, selecting those drills that will help your style of play and game plan.
大量的训练是关键，因为你“比赛就像练习”。如果你每天都在比赛中刻苦练习，你很可能会在比赛中也这样做。因此，让你的训练有竞争性和乐观性。为每一个练习准备一个课程计划，选择那些有助于你的比赛风格和比赛计划的练习。
Know your opponent through scouting, film, previous experience, and work on your game plan in practice... how you are going to stop them defensively, and what you can do offensively.
通过观察、录像、以及以前的经验。了解你的对手，在实践中制定你的计划……你打算如何去防守他们，自己又如何进攻。

Foster a great work ethic
培养伟大的职业道德
Once they lace up their shoes and walk onto the court, all of the day's problems and issues are put aside, and each player must focus on the job at hand. Each player owes it to the other players to practice and compete as hard as he/she can. Every player, coach, assistant, manager, etc has a job to do. Your star players and seniors should lead by example and work hardest of all, and set the tone for the entire team.
一旦他们把鞋带系好，走上球场，所有的场外问题都放在一边，每个球员都必须专注于比赛。每位队员都努力训练，激烈竞争，他们要对得起这些同样努力的队友。每个球员、教练、助理、经理等都有事情要做。你的明星球员和前辈应该以身作则，最努力地工作，为整个球队定下基调。

Team concept
球队的理念
The coach must instill the concept of "team", rather than the individual. A cooperative team spirit must be cultivated both on and off the court. A team whose players come to understand that they are part of something more important and bigger than their individual considerations, and become unselfish in their thinking, will achieve more and will obtain more satisfaction from the overall experience.
教练必须灌输“球队”的理念，而不是个体。在球场内外都必须培养球队合作精神。球员们要逐渐认识到，他们是球队的一部分，球队比他们个人的私利更重要更伟大，这样他们会变得无私；这样的球员组成的队伍，才能飞得更高，获得更多让自己满意的成绩。
A team must arrive at the notion of a singleness of purpose and a dedication to the course. The idea of "don't let your buddy down" is a good one.
一个球队必须达成统一的目标和对事业的献身精神。“不要让你的伙伴失望”就是个不错的队训。

Belief in the system
体系的信念
You must get everyone onboard and believe in your system and your style of basketball. Players and assistants must be totally dedicated and believe in what they are doing. Instruct, explain, diagram what you are trying to do. Players must be confident that (all other things being equal) if they practice hard, prepare, and play hard, they deserve to win, since the team that plays and practices hardest usually wins.
你必须让团队的每个人相信你的体系和你的篮球风格。球员和助教必须全心投入并相信他们做的。指导，解释，图解你要做的事情。球员必须自信（同等条件下），如果他们努力训练、准备，努力比赛，他们理应获胜，因为比赛和训练最刻苦的球队，才是最容易获胜的球队。

Goals
目标
Set goals for your team, your program, and your individual players. Having fun should be right at the top of the list. Most players will never play college basketball. Even those who do, will often return several years later and say that playing high school basketball was the most fun they ever had, and this is one of the best compliments they can give you.
为你的球队、你的校队以及里面每一个球员设定目标。乐趣应该排在最前面。大多数球员进不了大学篮球队。即使是那些打进的人，也会在几年后回来，说打高中篮球是他们最有趣的事情，这是他们能给你的最好的称赞之一。
Team goals could vary from year to year. A team goal might be to win the state championship, or the conference title, or maybe to finish above 500 with a winning record. With a team lacking in talent or experience, it might be to just be a better team by the end of the season, in preparation for next year.
球队的目标每年都会有所不同。一个队的目标可能是赢得州冠军，或分区冠军，或者保持50%以上的胜率。对于一支缺乏天赋和经验的球队来说，目标可能是在赛季结束前成为一支更好的球队，为下一年做好准备。
Individual player goals might be developing a post player's moves and strength, or a guard's dribbling, ball-handling, and shooting. But personal character goals are even more important... developing priorities, commitment, work ethic, trust, loyalty, etc.
个人球员的目标可能是加强球员的移动和力量，或后卫的运球，控球和投篮。但个人人格的目标更为重要……学会分清轻重缓急、承诺、职业道德、信任、忠诚等。

Winning effort
成功的努力
"If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a lot." - Hall of Fame Coach Dean Smith
“如果你把每场比赛都当作生死之战，那你就有问题了，你会死很多次的。”-名人堂教练迪恩·史密斯
Players feel the pressure of having to win an important game. Rather than focusing on the "win", shift the focus to each player having fun and giving a "winning effort". If each player plays and competes as hard as he/she can, then the winning and losing is less worrisome. There is no shame in losing to a better opponent if you have played as hard as you can.
球员们感受到必须赢得一场重要比赛的压力。与其把注意力集中在“赢”上，不如把注意力转移到乐趣上，并给予“成功的努力”。如果每个球员都像他/她一样努力比赛，那么赢与输就不那么令人担忧了。如果你尽力去拼了，输给一个更好的对手是没有羞耻的。
Winning effort also goes back to work ethic and competing as hard as you can in practice every day. Players make each other better by competing hard in practice. If your team does not compete hard in practice, it's unlikely that any pre-game motivational speech will get them to play any harder.
成功的努力也会回到职业道德中去，每天训练都在努力地拼搏。运动员通过刻苦练习而使彼此变得更好。如果你的球队在训练中没有很好的竞争，那么赛前的任何激励性演说都不会使他们更加努力。
Further, we stress that "having fun" is competing as hard as you can... that the most enjoyment and satisfaction occurs when you have given all you can against a worthy opponent. A little goofing around and joking from time to time is fine, but the enjoyment it is not on same level as the fun obtained from competing hard.
此外，我们强调“玩得开心”是尽可能努力地拼搏……最大的乐趣和满足感就是你全力对抗一个可敬的对手。偶尔开个小小玩笑是好玩，但它的乐趣和努力拼搏获得中的乐趣是完全不同的。

Measuring success
衡量成功
Unfortunately, we all get caught up in wins and losses. Coaches are remembered for achieving milestones such as so many career wins and championships. It is true of course that good coaching, teaching fundamentals, developing your program, passion, dedication, hard work, etc will translate into more wins.
不幸的是，我们都陷入了得失之中。教练们因为取得如此多的职业胜利和冠军而被铭记。当然，良好的指导、教学基础、发展计划、热情、奉献精神、努力工作等都会转化为更多的胜利。
But not all coaches are blessed with talent every year. Recently, I witnessed an excellent coaching job done by a freshmen coach who took a bunch of inexperienced kids with poor fundamentals and no confidence, to become a winning team by season's end.
但并不是所有的教练每年都会带有天赋球员。最近，我目睹了一位优秀教练的工作，一个新生教练带着一群没有经验的球员，他们的基础很差，没有信心，在赛季结束时成为一支成功的球队。
Overall they had lost more games than they won, but by the end of the season, they were beating teams that had easily defeated them earlier in the season. The season ended with the boys having a sense of pride and feeling good about themselves and eager for the next season. So you see that great coaching is not always accurately reflected by the won-loss record.
总的来说，他们输掉的比赛比他们赢的还多，但是到赛季末，他们击败了在本赛季初轻易击败他们的球队。这个赛季结束了，孩子们感到自豪，感觉良好，渴望下一个赛季。所以你看到，伟大的教练并不总是准确地反映在输赢记录中。
Better measures of success would be the fun your team and individual players had, and how well they learned, developed, improved, and matured to become better players, students and citizens.
成功的更好方式是你的球队和个人球员所拥有的乐趣，以及他们如何学习、发展、提高和成长，成为更好的球员、学生和公民。

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