Coach Flash Dear Coach, Motivation is enhanced by helping your team and players to identify goals to reach and the path to get there.
Confidence comes as a result of achieving goals.
You can build both practice and game goals. Set short term goals which are reachable and provide positive reinforcement for their efforts. These can be things like holding an opponent under 50 points, or making 15 assist each game. In practice they can be things like making less then five turnovers the whole practice, or making 90 percent of your free throws. You should also have longer term season goals which are very difficult to reach.