How To Become A Team Captain
How To Become A Team Captain Basketball is a team game where player leadership is essential. Player leadership can be the difference from your team being good rather than…
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Life Lessons
10 Critical Leadership Skills Found in Business AND IN Basketball
10 Critical Leadership Skills Found in Business AND IN Basketball Stepping into a head coaching position for basketball can be a major challenge. In order to be successful you will need to have…
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JJ Watt On Striving For Greatness – “Success is not owned. It is leased and rent is due every day.”
There is some really good stuff on what it takes to be great in this interview with JJ Watt. There is a reason that he’s one of the best players in the NFL. “Success is not owned. It is leased and rent is due every day.” “Every single day someone is coming for your job.
Picking Your Basketball Role Models
Most young players, as they grow, try to emulate players that they feel are good. They use the players as models of what type of player they would like to be. There is nothing wrong with that. In fact, I believe it should be encouraged. However, I believe that if you are going to select
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More Than Basketball – Inspiring Video About A 10 Year Old Boy Named Gabe Puthoff
This inspiring video about a 10 year old named Gabe Puthoff is so much more than basketball. As Jimmy V once said, every day you should laugh, think, and cry. Well, this video took care of all three for me! Take a look and let us know what you think. Another few things that I
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Perspective – Raghava KK: Shake up your story
Here is a nice little video on perspective from Raghava KK via ted.com. As coaches, parents, and players, we all get lost in our own perspective because that’s human nature. This video is a great reminder to respect and try to understand other perspectives. And hopefully this is something that we can incorporate into the
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Basketball In Anguilla
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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Great Story On What Youth Basketball Is All About
Here is a great story from Jim Bado of Ohio on his experience with coaching youth basketball. It really shows what youth basketball should be all about. Jim is also an author of the LOSER Report. Matthew and I strode through the chilly, snow-flecked darkness outside the soaring Gateway Church. “Have you had fun this
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When & How Do You Promote Selfishness?
Extreme selfishness is not a quality you want with your players. Sometimes, selfishness can destroy a team full of great individuals. Most coaches experience these type of players and have developed good tactics to handle them and promote team unity. But coaches also come across players that are too unselfish. Too unselfish to the point
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School and You
Here is another guest blog by our coaching friend Bud Leonard. You will often hear stories of “student athletes” on the radio or TV. There are many stories written about “student athletes” in the newspaper and in magazines such as Sports Illustrated. You may even hear stories about “student athletes” in everyday conversation. There is