TexMurphy wrote:Two good qoutes that do apply to competetive nature and beeing victorious... though there is a huge but to them... let me get back to them..voyagers_uk wrote: Sun Tzu: "Know your enemy, Know yourself, and your victory is not in danger"...
Jim Malone: "He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He puts one of yours in the hospital, you put one of his in the morgue. That's the Chicago way"
Before I go on let me add a qoute.
Michael Corleone: "Never hate your enemy it affects your judgement."
Malones qoute (Im talking in general terms now not BB specific) is dangerous as if you tend to over retaliate then your nearing hate and that means your judgment is clouded. It also makes you predictable.
Hence at times it can be better to ignore your enemy so that he needs to commit to his distractions. This can put him in very awkward positions.
Also the big but to them.
Applying "winner" philosophies, that come from military commanders similar type of people, on recreational games and/or life can be dangerous.
Because what is most important winning that game or BOTH players having a enjoyable experience?
I'm saying this because I so often read people coaching each other on the net how to WIN (regardless of game) while so little focus is put on sportsmanship and respect of the enjoyable experience of the game.
So while yes using Sun Tzu, Jim Mallone and Michael Corleone as your guiding principals to coaching a BB Team might make you successfull it is also most definatly a good way to make you extreamly booring to play.
Tex
Interesting perspective on my approach. The Malone quote was more on a "always take more force than your opponent expects to clear a situation" - when it is in your favour manner
being unpredictable and flexible is hardly making anyone a boring opponent to play against
I agree with you wholeheartedly on the enjoyment factor for both coaches as the paramount outcome, but the match is only part of the social side for me. Spending the evening with friends is an all encompassing experience and why I prefer tabletop to any other form of BB.
Your added quote imposes feelings into for me was a simple instructional piece.
I didn't impose emotion on D.
Winning is nice, but not everything. If he had asked for help on how to lose or have fun.... I may have offered different advice. but I would probably have stayed silent as I do not feel it is my place to tell people how to feel.
If you want to have a Dr Phil moment by all means knock yourself out... I may not read it, but as long as you enjoyed it then we had a good time...
and intercepting what would have been a scoring TD [we got out of sync] with a Blocker in traffic when another friend got all throwy with Orcs - i'm not sure who was the more surprised; him because i rolled a 6 or me because he threw just for kicks and nearly pulled off a score from an unexpected source.
