I'm sure there have been many times where coaches have told their team to take it easy for that game as they didn't need to try their best to win for example.
I disagree. There´s for sure different kind of motivation you can give to your team: and if you overuse a hype them up approach, your team will wear down. So you try to send them out with focus, but not with full passion all the time.it's easy to understand for a European (or a football fan) as we have different tournaments here running at the same time so managers can make choices..but in NBA, every game has the same importance so i understand Brian..
I disagree. There´s for sure different kind of motivation you can give to your team: and if you overuse a hype them up approach, your team will wear down. So you try to send them out with focus, but not with full passion all the time.