237 - Money for points

My first year coaching freshman basketball, I ran into a situation that I haven't run into since. One of my players was taking terrible shots. I'm talking first pass in, highly guarded, out of her range shots. I finally asked her what was up. And she said that her dad would give her a dollar for every point she scored in a game. Relating to what we talked about yesterday, that was a recipe for disaster. I had to have a talk with the girl, and let her know that's not T-ball, that she was in fact hurting the team by trying to reach her own selfish goal. I wanted to smack the dad. Points are easy to measure. I wish he had use something like rebounds, or screen set, or steals instead of points. It's not me a valuable lesson to talk with my kids, find out there why, and address it as soon as possible.