Reminds me of a story I read about a girls basketball coach who was not really familiar with basketball but I think he had coached soccer. He didn't understand why you would only defend half the floor, so he trained his players to run the floor like soccer players so that they could defend the entire floor all the time. Pissed off the opposing teams something fierce, but he did win a lot of games.

Edit: the story I recalled is the one already posted in another comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6729372