Coaches Corner~Guest Blogger

One of the things that I'm a big proponent of is noticing that there is no letter "I" in the word team, so one player can certainly carry a team, one player can be strong, and last night's Warriors' Cleveland game, the first game of the playoffs, really proved it. I think the highest scorer on both teams was LeBron James, and he scored I believe 40 points, and he is a former most valuable player and Steph Curry, the reigning most valuable player, scored 27 points. However, when LeBron James brought the power and led his team so well last night all the way into a tie game at the end of regulation, they had to go into overtime for the Warriors to win, the Warriors absolutely wore out LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Notwithstanding the injuries, when both teams needed to score at the end of the game, the Warriors, who play as a team, as a community, as a unit, wore down Cleveland, who led most of the first 3 quarters.  So even though a great team was leading both sides, the leading scorer last night, when it got down to the crunch time, the Warriors had worn down and worn out the Cleveland Cavaliers.  And as it turns out, they tied the game in regulation. When it got into overtime, the Warriors' coach kept shifting players, fresh players, in and out and in and out and changing the chemistry until he found out what would absolutely stop Cleveland from winning the game.

Can one man make a difference in the team in a game? Yes. Can one man carry a team? Rarely, it sometimes can happen, but rarely, and last night, the coaching lesson of all coaching lessons was the man who is the most valuable player in the game never got into the game. It was the coach for the Warriors. It was a man who was pulling the strings, engineering the game on the sidelines, who could look at the offense and the defense for both teams, and manipulate the game legally, not divisively, but manipulate the right players, and he moved certain players out of his team, off the floor, and put on the floor the best 5 that would absolutely control the outcome of the game, so the MVP of game one, was Steve Kerr, the coach of the Golden State Warriors.

Gary Henson works out of Sacramento, CA via BusinessCoach.Com but has coached business owners all over the world. He’s committed to making a profound life-changing difference in people’s lives and companies. In 1989, inspired by his own personal and entrepreneurial struggles, he started coaching companies. He found coaching to be a business solution that offered a one-of-a-kind approach that encompassed our unique challenges and He was amazed at how far reaching it was.