I wanted to share the results from our 3rd grade basketball season and some ideas that might help you and your team. I hope in some way this gives you ideas and helps you with your youth teams and making a positive impact on them. Our First 5 on 5 Tournament Experience I’ll start with […]
NEW Link – The Pink Elephant Concept Will Help You Improve Players Performance
Here’s a great article that someone shared on our forum. It’s about getting your players to respond to you and perform better. It’s really easy to fall in the “pink elephant” trap and frankly I think most coaches make this mistake. I know I do. This article makes some excellent points that I am going to […]
Message to Your Players – Being Selfless and Helping Others
What’s more important than teaching life lessons and helping others? I think basketball is a great tool to teach those lessons and set a good example for players. With that in mind, I’m sharing an email I just sent to the players on our sophomore team. I have found this is a great way […]
Decision-Training Style of Coaching. Is This a Better Method?
Brian McCormick makes good points about asking questions and using decision based teaching. I’m trying to do a better job on this area. It takes practice. I guess us coaches still have to practice too! Use a decision-training style of coaching, meaning that I ask a lot of questions to help the players learn. Coaches […]
Keeping ALL Your Players Busy in Practice and How to Handle Large Groups
This season we often find ourselves in the gym with one or two coaches and over 30 kids. This can be a real challenge and requires some creativity to stay productive. I think it’s important to keep as many of your players busy (and improving) as possible. How much can a player improve when they […]
Cutting Down Turnovers, Improving Defense, and Objectively Analyzing Your Game Results
We lost our first game of the season. It was against my old team that I coached the last couple years. So it was bitter sweet. I was happy to see the players I worked with last year play really well. But at the same time I wanted to win the game with my new […]
Sweet Basketball Coaching App – One of My Favorites to Improve Shooting
Coaches Eye is a pretty sweet app that I use to analyze players shots. It’s great because I can record their shot with my ipad or iphone, and then a few seconds later show them in slow motion what they are doing. Almost every single time… the player looks at the slow motion video with […]
10 Ways to Keep Injured Players Busy and Productive During Practice
As coaches, we all at some point have players attending practice but can’t participate in regular drills because they’re injured. Of course, it depends on nature of the injury, but you should almost always be able to come up with ways for players to work on their game and improve their skills during practice. The […]
Day 2 – Developing a “Hard Working” Team
After our first practice, it’s clear that players don’t understand what “hard working” means. I think many of them are trying. But they don’t know what it takes yet. To me, “hard working” is a skill and a value that you must teach, develop, and continually refine… So here’s what I did on our second […]
“Where Do Rebounds Go?” This is a must read for ALL coaches.
Here’s an awesome article called “Where Do Rebounds Go?“. This is a must read for ALL coaches. http://courtvisionanalytics.com/where-do-rebounds-go/ It’s really interesting because a Geographic Analyst (no idea what that means but it must mean he’s smart) plotted and analyzed the rebounding locations for over 26,000 missed shots. His analysis and diagrams of the results are […]