Loud and Clear

The message was sent loud and clear.

It didn’t have to take a period or a game, it only took about 8 or 9 minutes to deliver a message for the player in question to receive.

There’s no doubt when one of a team’s “best” players get benched the message is sent loud and clear.

Accountability hits different sometimes especially when a “top” player is sat down, people take notice, the rest of the team takes notice. There doesn’t have to be any yelling or screaming to get the point across. On teams that are coached the right way, they pride themselves with character, integrity and culture. No one player is bigger than the team or what the team is trying to accomplish.

The message was received loud and clear because you could tell by how the player in question responded and played after being sat. You have to give the player in question credit for that. Perhaps that player should have been held accountable in years gone by, but that was then and this is now.

Messages get sent all of the time, how they are received and the impact that they have on the entire group is a different story all together.

No one player is bigger than the team. Teams that are well coached know that loud and clear.