The culture around professional sports and the road that it takes to get there is a complicated one, to say the least. The path to get to the NBA, for example, has been quite a rigid one for many years. Although some players came straight from high school, and now the G-League and other leagues are also taken seriously, the main way is to get into the right college.
There are a lot of great schools with some great head coaches running the programs. Coach K was one of the best-known at Duke, but there are plenty of other good schools as well. Donovan Mitchell, for example, went to the University of Louisville in Kentucky. The college season is also on, which means Louisville is playing, and a moment from the game drew Mitchell’s attention recently.
Donovan Mitchell Went Off On Fans Suggesting That The Head Coach Of The Louisville Team Should Be Yelling At His Players
The long-standing belief has been that tough love is the only way to get players to become truly great. This is something Shaquille O’Neal has espoused in the past, especially when explaining his harsh critiques of some players. But there’s more than one way to do anything, and coaching is no different. So when a tweet from a fan getting at the Louisville coach for being too soft on a player went viral, Mitchell noticed it and provided a different angle to the situation.
Yelling at kids every damn time isn’t the answer… just because we see a clip of him smiling and laughing trying to encourage his players as opposed to yelling at them (which he has done plenty of times) doesn’t mean he’s not trying to coach… negativity isn’t always the answer‼️ https://t.co/BJFUz9AT36
— Donovan Mitchell (@spidadmitchell) December 11, 2022
“Yelling at kids every damn time isn’t the answer… just because we see a clip of him smiling and laughing trying to encourage his players as opposed to yelling at them (which he has done plenty of times) doesn’t mean he’s not trying to coach… negativity isn’t always the answer.”
NBA players have taken it upon themselves to start talking more about what youngsters need to do to make it to the league. Draymond Green has given some stellar advice, as has Raymond Felton. But Donovan Mitchell’s advice is more for the system. There is no need for young players to only have to deal with negative reinforcement.
Mitchell saying what he did gives a lot of support to those coaches that are trying to find a more balanced approach to how they nurture players. The NBA is a cutthroat league for sure, but the players need to believe in themselves if they want to have any chance of having a long career in it.
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