>Head coach Wes Unseld Jr. is in charge of the Wizards’ film sessions and says he edits the clips himself. That way he can ensure everything is organized the way he wants it to be along with his notes. He likes everything to have a particular cadence and be ordered properly.
>Unseld Jr. will usually pick 15 good clips and 15 bad clips. He likes to finish film sessions with positives to leave on a high note. He also likes to elicit feedback from players, knowing their perspective is not always easy to glean watching from his vantage point, especially in hindsight and with the benefit of watching in slow motion on video.
>”I think just like anything else, the more you do it the more comfortable you get. I’ve been doing them for years now. I think the biggest piece is breaking it up so that it’s not all negative… I don’t necessarily look at them as negatives, it’s more so just teaching. It’s often reinforcing things that you’ve talked about, therefore they do feel a little negative,” Unseld Jr. said.
>The details get so granular that Unseld Jr. says he can often spot “half a dozen teaching moments” in a single clip. Those lessons are “invaluable,” he says, especially when the team’s schedule doesn’t allow for practice time and for players who don’t get many minutes in games.
>Film sessions can naturally change quite a bit from coach to coach and team to team and not just because of philosophy, but also circumstance. Contending teams that often win and feature veteran players have very different film sessions than younger teams still trying to hammer down the fundamentals of player development.
>Film sessions for younger teams can take longer and be more extensive without the background knowledge veterans have as a foundation. Veteran players often already know what they did wrong, while young players have to be shown.
>”It might be old news to some guys who have been around. They know, they see it, they don’t need an explanation. But I think where we are right now, the group does,” Unseld Jr. said.
>Those types of lessons, however, can lead to some great stories to look back on. The funniest ones often also have a practical purpose, as they led to ‘a-ha’ moments in real time as young players learned on the fly.
>Unseld Jr. told one from his first stint with the Wizards, back in the mid-2000s long before he returned as their head coach.
>”It happens a handful of times every year. It actually happened when I was here years ago, when I was an assistant. I’m not going to name any names, but we had been harping on a certain player making a certain pass in a certain action. He finally made the pass and the coach called a timeout and that timeout was to do nothing but to celebrate the fact that he made the pass. That’s a true story. It took like four months,” Unseld Jr. said.
Okay, somebody has to figure out who this story is in regard to, and dig up the video lol
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>Head coach Wes Unseld Jr. is in charge of the Wizards’ film sessions and says he edits the clips himself. That way he can ensure everything is organized the way he wants it to be along with his notes. He likes everything to have a particular cadence and be ordered properly.
>Unseld Jr. will usually pick 15 good clips and 15 bad clips. He likes to finish film sessions with positives to leave on a high note. He also likes to elicit feedback from players, knowing their perspective is not always easy to glean watching from his vantage point, especially in hindsight and with the benefit of watching in slow motion on video.
>”I think just like anything else, the more you do it the more comfortable you get. I’ve been doing them for years now. I think the biggest piece is breaking it up so that it’s not all negative… I don’t necessarily look at them as negatives, it’s more so just teaching. It’s often reinforcing things that you’ve talked about, therefore they do feel a little negative,” Unseld Jr. said.
>The details get so granular that Unseld Jr. says he can often spot “half a dozen teaching moments” in a single clip. Those lessons are “invaluable,” he says, especially when the team’s schedule doesn’t allow for practice time and for players who don’t get many minutes in games.
>Film sessions can naturally change quite a bit from coach to coach and team to team and not just because of philosophy, but also circumstance. Contending teams that often win and feature veteran players have very different film sessions than younger teams still trying to hammer down the fundamentals of player development.
>Film sessions for younger teams can take longer and be more extensive without the background knowledge veterans have as a foundation. Veteran players often already know what they did wrong, while young players have to be shown.
>”It might be old news to some guys who have been around. They know, they see it, they don’t need an explanation. But I think where we are right now, the group does,” Unseld Jr. said.
>Those types of lessons, however, can lead to some great stories to look back on. The funniest ones often also have a practical purpose, as they led to ‘a-ha’ moments in real time as young players learned on the fly.
>Unseld Jr. told one from his first stint with the Wizards, back in the mid-2000s long before he returned as their head coach.
>”It happens a handful of times every year. It actually happened when I was here years ago, when I was an assistant. I’m not going to name any names, but we had been harping on a certain player making a certain pass in a certain action. He finally made the pass and the coach called a timeout and that timeout was to do nothing but to celebrate the fact that he made the pass. That’s a true story. It took like four months,” Unseld Jr. said.
Okay, somebody has to figure out who this story is in regard to, and dig up the video lol