Role Players

We've used this term in our scouting reports, role player, picks up garbage points and immediately our players dismiss that player.

Perhaps we need to word it better but the role player who picks up the scraps is a player who can routinely beat you. We've re-watched the Dallas New Orleans game from the other night and with superstar Dirk Nowitzki on the bench, none other than Erick Dampier put the nail in the Hornets coffin with an offensive rebound late in overtime.

As coaches we all appreciate the effort that these players give. Usually they're the ones who guard the other team's better players, do the dirty work of screening, reversing the ball or crashing the glass all without complaints that they're not getting plays called for them.

When a player like that gets a key basket to finish off a game, we take notice and appreciate that players effort. Now if there were only a way to word it in our scouting reports so our players appreciate how dangerous a player like that is!