Timeout vs Coach

 

 

TIMEOUT VS COACH

 

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James: 2-4 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sister, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.  Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

 

Headline:

"There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior." ~ John Wooden

Game Summary:

One the greatest basketball coaches of all time said it best above.  Sometimes we get  caught up in life or sports and forget our real purpose. Jesus wants us to follow him in all we do, admit our mistakes, and love our fellow man as we love ourselves. Timeouts in sports are used for several reasons but mostly for a coach to calm his team down, substitute or relay game strategy.

If we could only take timeouts in life to ponder our decisions before we make them... but then again how could we learn and grow in our faith. While trying to not to run up the score, little did I know that my timeout was misunderstood as an cocky act to embarrass the other team.

Basketball is a very competitive sport. It allows you to be respectful, humble, cocky, and even pushy if you are not careful. The coach or the player can be responsible for these actions.  My story starts in the third quarter. My team was up by 20. I had told my point guard to slow down and try to get others involved in the game. I let the game go on, now in the fourth with seven minutes left I called a timeout to explain to everyone as a team to slow down. The coach on the other team thought I was being {COCKY} by calling the timeout. After the timeout we go to throw the ball in and the other coach calls a timeout.  I get all my team back over to me and he says YEP we are still losing. We go to throw it in again and he calls timeout again and says the same thing.  By this time I think he is being [PUSHY].  After this time out, we go to throw in the ball and start bringing it down the court and he says team if you get the ball throw it to the other team. Hearing this made me mad so I let my mind overrule my [RESPECTFUL] heart and I called a timeout. This took the attention off him being [COCKY] and turned it to me as being [PUSHY].  Looking back I should have been [HUMBLE] and let the players have the attention for playing the good game.  Be [RESPECTFUL] and [HUMBLE] towards your coach and teammates. And TAKE A TIMEOUT to give all your glory to GOD!!!

Jesus while hanging on the cross asked God to forgive the men killing him. I figure if he could do that, we should be able to forgive or "turn the other cheek" during sporting events.

 
 

 

 

 

MVP:

 Jeff Willis (a VOLUNTEER youth sports coach who has an unbelievable passion for helping kids and is a big enough man to share his mistakes so that others can learn from them).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recap:

 Where do you draw the line in sports? When we know we are far superior in a skill than someone else.  This is a hard decision we face all through life.  A famous TV star once said I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to make everyone happy."

Is there something else the coach in this story could have done, so the other coach knew he was not trying to run up the score just to embarrass them?  Would it have been better to not change anything?

Practice: 

Checkout the song "Go Hard or Go Home" by Lecrae