Blog 20: Exit Interview

1. What is your essential question and answers? What is your best answer and why?

How can a coach best maximize his team's chances of winning a league championship?

3 Answers:

• A coach can best maximize his team's chances of winning a league championship by teaching the fundamentals as a part of every practice.
• A coach can best maximize his team's chances of winning a league championship by incorporating drills that involve teamwork.
• A coach can best maximize his team's chances of winning a league championship by using the correct coaching strategies in certain game situations.

Best Answer: 

• My best answer is that a coach can best maximize his team's chances of winning a league championship by teaching the fundamentals as a part of every practice. Teaching players the fundamentals and having them learn them is a very important part of playing basketball with them being the essential part of having a basketball be as successful it can be. The fundamentals are what players always learn first and they have to be able to be experts in these skills so that their team can have a better chance of winning a league championship.

2. What process did you take to arrive there?

• The process I took was through research and doing my mentorship/ independent component. I saw that everywhere I looked, it always came back to the fundamentals of basketball. While doing research, I saw that a main thing most article I looked at went back to teaching and learning the fundamentals. While doing mentorship and my independent component, I saw that my coach and mentor, Coach Will Robbins of Southlands Christian High School, always put in drills during practice that had us working the fundamentals so that we may be able to learn and develop with these principle skills.

3. What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?

• Some problems I faced were trying to find a perfect Answer 2 and creating a good essential question. With Answer 2, I wanted to get the key factor of teamwork as my answer but didn't know how to come up with a perfect thesis statement for that. As I kept researching, I saw that it had to be in a place where it was in practice and I saw an answer where teamwork can be incorporated during practice. As with the EQ, at first my EQ had nothing to do with what I was researching and my mentorship. As time went on, I had came up and formulated an EQ that went well with what I was doing for my project.

4. What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

• My two most significant sources are my mentor/ coach Coach Will Robbins of Southlands Christian High School and a website called Breakthrough Basketball. My mentor has showed me everything that I hadn't known about basketball prior to this project and he has a vast knowledge about the sport of basketball. The website of Breakthrough Basketball has many resources that tied in with all my answers. It showed how to teach the fundamentals, how to incorporate and teach teamwork chemistry, and different ways to coach a basketball team in certain situations. This source showed me many things that gave me resources for playing and coaching the sport of basketball.