Me on the other hand… I prefer players to have some
freedom to make decisions (and in turn have some joy in their play.) To some
that sounds crazy; how could I allow admittedly inexperienced / ignorant
players the freedom to make their own decisions?
I do give a basic plan for what we will run on offense. There
is a preset pattern we work off of but I constantly tell the players that I trust
them and want them looking for opportunities to “dive” to the basket to score.
I am more concerned with them learning that the goal is getting open to score,
not following the choreography perfectly. This is how players learn to get a “feel
for the game” and are not just robots. When everything is tightly choreographed
it is more like robots are on the floor. I’ve seen some players that will run
to a spot to set a pick and there is not even a defender there to set the pick
on.
The patterns we run are designed to help the players be
in a position for success. The design is in place to help players avoid being
in the wrong place. So it is in essence a controlled freedom…
It is true that in Christ we are free. It is true that we
are no longer under law but under grace. Yet it is also true that even though
all things are lawful, not all things are profitable. (See 1 Corinthians 10:23)
Are the things you are doing helping you find openings to “score” with the
proclamation of the Gospel? Are they helping you “score” in living out the “game
plan” of Scripture? Or are there things you are doing that are simply for your
own interests and not based upon loving God and loving others?
We need to be careful to not allow freedom to get us away
from the “game plan.” In the book I am currently reading (Facing Goliath by JP
Jones) there is a challenging/thinking story…
In a nutshell it shares about a glass manufacturer that
is looking to hire a delivery driver that would be responsible for getting the
product across the mountain, via a winding one lane road, to the neighboring
town for sales. He asks the two drivers he interviewed “How close to the edge of
the cliff do you think you could drive without falling off?”
The first guy answered that he is an excellent driver and
could drive within 6 inches of the edge, at speed, without falling off. The second
guy said that he too was a good driver and he could drive close to the edge;
but that if responsible for delivery he would drive close to the mountain not
the edge.
The second guy was hired…
God has given you some freedom. Are you careful with the “cargo”
you have been entrusted with? Are you avoid the needless chances of “falling off
the edge of the cliff”?
God has called us to “controlled freedom” that cares
about carrying the Gospel and the truth of the Word to others… be careful that
things you choose to do are not risking delivery…
1 Thessalonians 2:4 “But as we have been approved by God
to be entrusted with the Gospel…”
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