"Soft" is a term that is thrown around sports a lot these days. Every one has their own interpretation of the word, but here is what Men's Basketball Head Coach Bill Self had to say about being "Soft".
“Soft is when you chose the easier path when the right path is the harder one.”
“Soft is thinking you should have help on defense, and that thought causing a letdown. Toughness is the anticipation that you won’t get help, so you do everything in your power to stop your man. But at the same time, you know and trust your help is there. That’s toughness, to me”
“I won’t let our players switch a screen or go under a ball screen until January every year. That is the softer way, the easier way. I never want to give them the easier way, or allow them to think there is a way they can allow themselves to be soft.”
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