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Women’s ABA Teams Bottom 5 wrap up

Damn , are all those SA anon posters claiming an unfair advantage re parents coaching their children still around here ??, They were singing the same song about Gaze putting his no-hoper 19 year old son into the Olympics in the 70's.

You really have to be rather pathetic at a personal level to target the child when being critical of such relationships. In every case I have ever seen, arguable favouritism or not, the kid usually works their ar$e off a lot harder than the rest of the players, particularly at a higher level.

I also rarely hear coaches with any coaching talent or respectable coaching history themselves accuse other coaches of favouritism of the coaches' own kids, unless they have kids in that team as well.

In which case they are speaking even more as a parent than the actual coach is, at least the real coach has to try to win some games.

Been interesting reading this thread and the various comments about the Lightning and the perceived issues there which are similar. Coaching a partner or child is an extremely difficult scenario as no matter what you do, no matter how talented they are, some one will always come up with perceived bias.

In the olden days, I coached several female teams in monor leagues, some with my then partner playing in and others she didnt. The main issue is that a Coach has to make the difficult task to isolate themselves from any personal relationship when they are at a game. I found I had to coach a female team different to a male team as they needed to be approached differently to their male counterparts. Most female players in my experience need to be treated as individuals, what works to encourage one, will not work with another. Some take personal feedback different to others as well. There are of course other factors unique to females that have to be understood and taken into consideration when relating to them.

However, whether male or female, it is the ability to get the message across in such a way that the players are open and responsive that is the most important. The players must want to play for the coach and their team mates.

From a distance, it appears that this is a contributing factor to several of the female teams that are regularly mentioned in this forum.

Maybe losing a top quality centre who was replaced by a princess who didn't last many weeks into the season would have as much to do with results than the coaches daughter getting preferential treatment.

Last night Emily Fryters suited up for Norwood reserves, is she back for good and finished her time at college, or was this just a flying visit on her behalf and a chance to get a game in before heading back?