In the context of coaching staff behavior, following the view that a cohesive team is more than the sum of its parts, basketball synergy is the ability of a group to outperform even its best individual player. A4C found that effective Coaches actively looked for the points in which they disagreed and in consequence encouraged conflicts amongst the participants in the early stages of the discussion. In contrast, the ineffective Coaches felt a need to establish a common view quickly, used simple decision making methods such as averaging, and focused on completing the task rather than on finding solutions they could agree on. In a technical context, its meaning is a construct or collection of different teammates working together to produce results not obtainable by any of the Coaches alone.
If used in a basketball application, synergy means that teamwork will produce an overall better result than if each person within the team are working toward the same goal individually. However, the concept of team analytics in practice plans needs to be considered in basketball, this was discovered in 1998 by the Toronto Raptors Head Coach Butch Carter. Team cohesion is that property that is inferred from the number and strength of mutual positive attitudes among members of the team. As a starting group becomes more cohesive, its functioning is affected in a number of ways. First, the interactions of substitutes and communication between team members may decrease or increase by how they coached interact. Common goals, interests and small sample sizes created by coaches in their practice plans all contribute to these results. In addition, team member satisfaction increases as the team provides friendship and support against outside threats or opponents in basketball.
There are negative aspects of coaching team cohesion that have an effect on group decision-making and hence on the teams effectiveness. There are two issues arising. The phenomenon is the tendency of a team to fail because the interaction in a game has not been replicated in practices. Coaches make decisions that are riskier than those the team would have recommended individually. Team selfishness is when individuals on a team begin by taking a stance on an issue regarding a common value (winning, rebounding, transition and shot selection) and after having discussed it, end up taking a more extreme stance on playing decisions.