This is a new section where Coach lists a topic and for the month you get to add your input.
Feb's topic: The Ultimate Comeback?
You're down 11-7, game to 15. Your defense needs to score four times to tie the game up. How do you manage a comeback? How do you call lines? What do you tell yourself and your players? What's a successful attitude and approach in this situation?
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You can't dwell on the score if you take the field in this situation. It's the past and you have no control over that. When your down, take control over the things you still can control such as.
1)Attitude: You can act defeated and thereby be defeated or you can rally yourself and the troops back up. In our first tournament this year, Slipped Discs rallied back from a score like this twice. Once against Paupack which we won and once against Lafayette where we lost by one.
2) Effort: This goes along with attitude, but each player at this point can't hold back and save themselves. We need to be giving 100% effort throughout a point—cutting, defending, marking and then after the point we can put someone else on the field that can match that effort.
3) intensity: How quickly we process and react to stimulus. Each player has an optimal intensity level for peak performance and it is each players' responsibility to identify their optimal level and how they get there.
4) Decision making: Continuing to make the right decisions on the field. This includes each individual being responsible for the parts of the game that we have designated. The mark is responsible for taking away the break side of the field—they are not responsible for getting a handblock on a throw to the open side. That D is the responsibility of the downfield defenders. Similarly, on offense when we get the disc we need to continue to move the disc to the next open receiver in our offense trusting that the team will make the plays, not the individual. Of course putting in people that know how to play the position they are in are important. And if you don't know you need to be responsible to step out, get someone in that does know, and work on fixing what you don't know.
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