The coach stays intense and focused the entire game…but the players ebb and flow. The players get frustrated and dejected and let the emotion of the moment cloud their actions.
Why?
Experience counts. It helps declutter the moment when you’ve gone through a bunch of moments kinda like this one.
College basketball players are young and easily swayed by circumstances. Coaches are older and their strength and zeal isn’t as tethered to circumstances.
»» This is why as players retire after their pro careers they say ‘Mentally I’m stronger than ever but I just can’t quite move like I used to’. If only the young could have the wisdom of the old.
Like the Faces song…I wish that I knew what I know now when I was younger.
