This winter I’m coaching a 7th grade boys Iowa Prep club team. My son Evan is on the team. I’d like to share what we’re doing — and what I consider to be important aspects of both winning and player development… What I Consider to be Good Club Guidelines for Developing Players Iowa Prep is […]
How to Make a Positive Impact On Your Players – 7 Aspects of Teamwork and Character We Will Focus On
Many years ago, when I played sports, I learned numerous valuable lessons that stuck with me. For whatever reason sports resonated with me. Looking back, I was passionate about sports. I believe that passion is primarily why sports served as a medium for me to learn so many lessons. It was important to me. I […]
Posted 3 New Articles / Drills
I wrote and posted some new articles, drills, and videos on Breakthrough… How to Minimize Game Slippage — 8 Ways to Minimize Game Slippage 1v1 Overlap Drill – How to Make 1v1 Drills More Efficient With One Court Also, posted this one several weeks ago and forgot to mention on my blog… 2-1-0 Dribbling Drills […]
How Often Should You Change Drills?
Do you use different drills to give players variety? Do you use the same set of drills all season? How often should you change your drills to keep things fresh? These are questions all coaches ask at some point. Here’s how we make our practices efficient and how often we change drills… For our 6th […]
When Players Need You Most – Good Reminder During the Season
A few weeks ago I missed an opportunity to be there for one of my players. She was upset about fouling out early and having a tough game. Maybe there was more going on — I don’t know. But she was legitimately upset. It was more than just a quick tear and all was fine. I […]
How to Be a Better Teammate – Use Steve Nash Example to Improve Your Teams Chemistry and Bring Positive Energy
Here’s an email I sent to our 6th grade girls team. The players have really taken to it and our practices have improved — better chemistry, relationships, and a positive energy. Feel free to copy and tweak this email for your own team… Subject: For Tigers Players. Steve Nash high fives. Please pass on. For Tigers […]
11 Practice Requirements for Youth Basketball Coaches
For our 6th grade (to be) girls basketball team, we had a lot of players wanting to join so we decided to create two teams. Both teams will run the same offense, defense, etc… but we’ll practice separate. Since I don’t have enough time to coach both teams I have recruited a couple coaches […]
What We Did With Our Sophomore Boys Basketball Team – Offense, Defense, Drills, Plays
In hopes of giving you some ideas and possibly helping your team in some way, I’m sharing what we did with our sophomore (10th grade) boys basketball team this year. This includes our offense, defense, drills, plays, and so on. Brief Overview and Results For the 2015/16 season I coached the Marion sophomore boys basketball team. […]
Why Coaching from Stands Causes Confusion – And How to Stop Parents From Doing It
If you have parents that shout instructions to their kids from the stands, you probably already know that can be problematic. Nothing worse than a kid continually looking at their parents for approval during a game (instead of the coach) and often times the parent yelling instructions that contradict what you want. Not to mention it […]
How We Came Up With Our Team Core Values This Season
We tried something different this year. We let the players come up with the core values and character values that we want to emphasis this year. Here’s how we came up with them… First we had a meeting to brainstorm ideas. BTW, this was our 10th grade boys team. Players came up with ideas and […]
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