Behind The Back Pass

Something like this has happened twice in the last few months. One of our guys got in trouble with his other coach for throwing a behind the back pass. The coach said, "Stop showing off." This is INSANE. A behind the back pass is a key component of your player's entire arsenal of passing strategies. Your players should be able to dime a behind the back pass, between the legs, underhand flip, running bounce pass, and a baseball bounce pass.

Here's what happened the other time - and it's strange but both coaches said the exact same thing. I had been working on getting our guys to freeze their defender with some shimmy-shammy dribble moves then blow by him. So our kid was practicing with another team and he put some moves on his defender and went right by him and scored. What did the coach say? Nice shot? Nice move? Nope. He said, "Stop showing off." That is ridiculous. This coach wants this kid to play hard and play to win (I'm assuming, but one might wonder) but he won't give him the freedom to play the game? Craziness.