I was watching a coaching conversation between Geno Auriemma and Bob Knight on ESPN the other day. Somehow, they segued into a conversation on free throw shooting. Geno mentioned that he had some years where his team was very poor at free throw shooting. Following conventional thinking, they spent more practice time on free throws. […]
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Check out these new great tools to help you watch videos and be more efficient with your time. Watching videos at faster speeds is especially helpful if you are already familiar with the topic or listening to a slow speaker. For me, it’s very useful when I watch basketball instructional videos. On the other hand,
Coaching is teaching. New ideas, new thoughts, trying to find ways to improve your players is all a part of coaching. Coaching is also about control. Many coaches have become so involved with “my way or the highway,” that they miss the overall objective. The objective is to maximize the players’ ability, not to get
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Here are two basketballs that I value quite a bit. The first basketball is a basketball I had autographed by Michael Jordan at his camp during my 8th grade year. The second basketball is one signed by a 7th grade basketball team that I coached last summer. Between the two basketballs, any guesses on which
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While on Twitter, I saw some tweets between Rick Allison and Sefu Bernard that referenced “Teach Like A Champion.” I pre-ordered the book before it was released a year or two ago. Actually, I bought it for my wife, but after it was sitting on her nightstand for a week, I asked her if I
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There are times when your players forget the time they are supposed to be at practice or a meeting… here is something that we started doing…. Use weird starting times… we started practice at 3:16 ….. pre game meetings at 4:33 etc. …….doing things like this makes the time stick in a kids head rather
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As coaches, we are all faced with situations where we might have a very skilled player that is an underclassmen or just a player that you tend to favor. And if you don’t handle the situation properly, resentment can arise from other players on the team. This can kill team camaraderie. In an article from
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I know what you’re thinking, “Eliminate shooting drills from practice? Joe must have fell off his rocker again.” But please hear me out, because this could help the development of your youth team tremendously. Do I think you should eliminate ALL shooting drills? Absolutely not. Should you eliminate most? Yes! As a youth coach working
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Coaching jobs are hard to come by, at any level, anywhere. I feel so fortunate and honored to be selected to the staff of the Maccabi USA Open Pan American team, along with Stu Wittner, former Head Coach at Pace University and Steve Rosner, who made his name as the agent for some of the biggest names in sports. We will be competing in the Maccabi Pan American Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil from Dec. 24 to Jan 2.
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BASKETBALL IN ANGUILLA I have a great interest in helping basketball grow, wherever the seeds are sewn. I made a trip to Anguilla to help some very dedicated people try to realize their goal of making basketball matter here. Anguilla is a very small island, located about 200 miles east of Puerto Rico, in the
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