By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Bartzokas writes: “One difficult aspect of the sport which nobody can avoid, however good they are, is losing.
Losing can drive you crazy. Defeats are very painful, especially for a coach. When you are a player, sometimes when you lose you might have played well personally and so you still have something to be positive about. But for a coach, a defeat can be like a funeral. For a while, after the game, you can’t talk to anyone, and you can become unbearable to the people around you.
But then something important happens: you move on. You have to move on because there is always the next game, so you don’t have time to sit around crying. In fact, one important thing about losses is that they are very motivational – because you want to avoid that feeling of defeat. You don’t want to have that feeling ever again, even though you know you are going to have it sooner or later. And when that feeling comes you just have to accept it, because it will come“.
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