Comments on: How to Develop “Mentally Tough” Players With Geno Auriemma http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/how-to-develop-mentally-tough-players-with-geno-auriemma/ Basketball Coaching Tips, Training Tips, and Strategy Thu, 17 May 2012 01:46:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Daryl http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/how-to-develop-mentally-tough-players-with-geno-auriemma/comment-page-1/#comment-1776 Daryl Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:18:39 +0000 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/?p=533#comment-1776 Could you elaborate on some ways to build reward structures into drills and practices. While I try to build in competition in my drills it seems the losers are punished. (pushups, sprint, etc. Could you elaborate on some ways to build reward structures into drills and practices. While I try to build in competition in my drills it seems the losers are punished. (pushups, sprint, etc.

]]> By: Don Kelbick http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/how-to-develop-mentally-tough-players-with-geno-auriemma/comment-page-1/#comment-1535 Don Kelbick Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:03:01 +0000 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/?p=533#comment-1535 Tim It was certainly not meant as a derogatory comment. Women play a different game. Men"s play has become one based on speed and athletic ability. Surly they lack fundamentals but due to strength and speed, the games is faster and above the rim. Women's play is more fundamentally sound but lacks the athleticism that I am partial to. That is except for UConn Tim

It was certainly not meant as a derogatory comment.

Women play a different game. Men”s play has become one based on speed and athletic ability. Surly they lack fundamentals but due to strength and speed, the games is faster and above the rim.

Women’s play is more fundamentally sound but lacks the athleticism that I am partial to.

That is except for UConn

]]> By: Tim http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/index.php/how-to-develop-mentally-tough-players-with-geno-auriemma/comment-page-1/#comment-1523 Tim Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:39:13 +0000 http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/blog/?p=533#comment-1523 Excellent observations and solid point of view on how to foster mental toughness. Certainly a much more productive - and fun - method of coaching than the following the conventional wisdom which suggests that you need to break a player down before you can build him/her back up. I'm wondering, though, if you can elaborate a bit more on what you mean when you say that the women "play a different game". I was struck by the comment and am wondering how you would compare/constrast the style, nature, etc. of the women's game vs. the men's. Thanks Excellent observations and solid point of view on how to foster mental toughness. Certainly a much more productive - and fun - method of coaching than the following the conventional wisdom which suggests that you need to break a player down before you can build him/her back up.

I’m wondering, though, if you can elaborate a bit more on what you mean when you say that the women “play a different game”. I was struck by the comment and am wondering how you would compare/constrast the style, nature, etc. of the women’s game vs. the men’s.

Thanks

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