{"id":1631,"date":"2013-12-31T09:06:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T09:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2013-12-31T09:06:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T09:06:13","slug":"when-to-call-a-timeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/31\/when-to-call-a-timeout\/","title":{"rendered":"When to call a timeout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mark Lebedew did a couple of posts on the subject of taking timeouts<\/a>. In them he referenced research indicating that calling a timeout has no net effect on odds of winning the next rally. Basically, they stay the same whether the timeout is taken or not. There was a fair bit of discussion about probabilities in the comments. Of course the idea of momentum came up (we’re not talking technical timeouts<\/a> here).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most coaches probably think in terms of trying to break the other team’s momentum (or keep them from getting it) when taking a timeout. This isn’t to say there aren’t other reasons, of course. You may pick up on something you want to tell the team, for example. The vast majority of the time, however, momentum is the deciding factor. We look at our players struggling and want to try to give them a chance for a mental reset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To that end, I want to see stats on something with a little bit longer time span. For example, the next five rallies. Does calling timeout improve a team’s performance when addressing things from that perspective? To my mind, that is really what we’re after (or should be) when we call for a team huddle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do see some ridiculous timeouts<\/a>, by the way. Like the coach whose team is getting soundly thrashed calling time out at set point. What does he really think he’s going to accomplish?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes you just need to let the players sort it out for themselves. In a developmental circumstance I will oftentimes not call timeout when the team is struggling. I want to see if they can fight through and overcome the adversity on their own. Better if they can develop that ability than if they have to rely on me all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what about you? What’s your timeout philosophy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research suggests calling timeout in a volleyball match isn’t as effective as we might think. What’s your philosophy on calling timeout?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[107,112,125,165,196],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching-strategy","tag-coaching-philosophy","tag-volleyball-coaching-skills","tag-communication","tag-game-strategy","tag-match-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}