This may be very player/personality specific, but what's the best way to go about handling a player who is in a shooting/confidence slump? This specific player is a sophomore boy on the varsity team (first year). First game of the year he cam of the bench and was their leading scorer. Now he's been starting and cant hit the broad side of a barn. Except for layups he hasn't made a shot in 3 games. My thoughts for him were that he needed to do his best to try and get to the free throw line, as he hadnt thus far this year. We played 1on1 and only counted points if they came from within a 5ft area of the goal or was fouled shooting. I told him he needed to not avoid contact, but rather create it and as a secondary goal hope the shot goes in. Blah blah blah I think I did my best to puts tons of pressure on him and he looked very uncomfortable in his game last night, and pretty much was invisible…..
He's young and not used to being the go to guy on a team and I feel like all I've done is put more things to think about in his mind….
Sometimes do you think its ok to just back off and say “you know what, just go have fun and play ball”?
Too much “fixing” and “wisdom overload” can hurt certain players, dont you think?
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