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#30 – Danny Miles “Lessons From A Lifetime In Coaching”

October 18, 2016 by Jim Huber Leave a Comment

Only Harry Statham, Pat Summit and Mike Krzyzewski have won more college basketball games than Danny Miles at 1,040. On the road to coaching immortality, Coach Miles won 3 National Championships in 43 years at Oregon Tech. His love for his players and the game earned him Coach John Wooden’s “Keys to Life” Award in 2015.

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In this Jim Huber Podcast, an in depth conversation on coaching, leading and loving with one of the games greatest servant leaders, Coach Danny Miles.

Enjoy this episode of The Jim Huber Show!

What You will Hear In This Podcast

0:27- Who is Danny Miles?
1:25- How Coach Miles made big time with limited resources at Oregon Tech
3:08- The successful traits that Coach Miles looked for in a recruit
4:25- How to identify the right kids for your program
6:06- What Coach Miles would tell a young 25 year old coach just staring out
7:58- The unique game day environment that was created at Oregon Tech
9:28- Strategies that Coach Miles implemented to get his teams to give great effort
12:15- The Value Point System that was a staple of the Oregon Tech program
18:37- The gift that Coach Miles received for winning his 900^th game
19:38- How to communicate with your team after a difficult loss
21:54- The importance of developing relationship and trust with your players
23:41- The impact that “Super Fan Stevie” had on Oregon Tech
27:03- Danny Miles talks about who actually shot JFK
28:31- The letters that Coach Miles received from former Presidents of the United States
29:55- The main reason why San Antonio Spurs and New England Patriots are successful
31:32- The recruitment of Dirk Nowitzki

You can reach Danny Miles at dmiles@gracechristian.org

Learn more about the Value Point System that helped Coach Miles win a 1,040 games https://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/pr/value-point-system.html

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#29 – Greg Brown “What I Learned Coaching with Pat Summitt and Don Meyer”

September 26, 2016 by Jim Huber Leave a Comment

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Why You Should Listen?

Greg Brown worked for two of the greatest servant leaders in the history of college basketball, Hall of Famers Pat Summit and Don Meyer. They combined with 2,021 wins and won 84 percent of their games! The priceless gifts that both Pat and Don so selflessly passed to Coach Brown inspired him to “pay it forward” and share the gifts with others in the form of this book “The Best Things I’ve Seen In Coaching”

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The title comes from a session of Coach Meyer’s Coaching Academy, which would discuss a very wide variety of topics. The book follows the Cornell note taking system that Coach Meyer emphasized. Coach Meyer always talked about the concept of a “thought pad” and Coach Brown wanted the ideas from the book to lead to more ideas and thoughts and plans of action.

After 19 years of coaching the college and high school level, Coach Brown was named the fourth head coach in the history of Lipscomb women’s basketball team in May of 2012.

In this Jim Huber Podcast, Coach Brown goes over the “1 Minute Assessment” that will help you communicate effectively with your student-athletes, 5 ways that Coach Meyer and Coach Summitt maintained success, getting maximum effort at your practices, and much more…

Enjoy this episode of The Jim Huber Show!

What You will Hear In This Podcast

0:32- Who is Greg Brown?
1:02- Pat Summitt and Don Meyer’s memorial services shows the impact that they had globally
3:17- How Don Meyer taught his players through the “Cornell Note Taking System”
4:49- Don Meyer’s strategy in retrieving information and doing something productive with it
6:02- Importance of coaches being honest with yourself and your student-athletes
7:00- The “1 Minute Assessment” is an efficient strategy to communicate effectively with people you supervise
8:08- Don’t praise the result, but encourage the process!
9:22- 5 Ways to Maintain Success
10:33- Effective ways to get your players to communicate
12:00- Obstacles you face to get kids to communicate effectively
12:50- Getting your players to give great effort in practices
14:02- Importance of kids not looking at mistakes as failures, but more as learning opportunities
15:13- Don Meyer’s importance of the NBA (Next Best Action)
16:02- The “Servant Leadership” that made Pat Summitt and Don Meyer great leaders
18:06- Coaches need to model what they are expecting from their players
19:23- The benefits of having someone not involved to evaluate you and your program
20:19- “The Things I Wish An Older Coach Would Have Told Me When I Was Younger”
21:33- A great lesson Greg Brown learned is “Adapt vs Adopt”
22:43- Ways to communicate and connect with Greg Brown

Follow coach Greg Brown on Twitter: @LUCoachBrown

Find information on coach Greg Brown and to purchase his book “The Best Things I’ve Seen In Coaching” go to: http://www.coachgregbrown.com/

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#28 John Lair “Coaching Athletes To Achieve The Impossible”

August 17, 2016 by Jim Huber Leave a Comment

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The odds were stacked fairly high against Coach John Lair and his athlete, Chevi Peters. Doctors had predicted an early demise for young Chevi, telling his parents he wouldn’t live to see the age of three. 38 surgeries later, he was a beaten down teenager who weighed 98 lbs, his body covered in scars, his head and eyes perpetually downcast, he had fought more battles than he could bear. When Police called his brand new Special Olympics PowerLifting Coach John Lair, it was with awful news. Chevi had tried to kill himself by driving his car into oncoming traffic. Chevi had crashed his car and was sitting on a park bench rocking and sobbing and talking about wanting to die when Coach Lair arrived on the scene.

The 300 lb mountain of a coach and the 98 lb teen held one another and talked and cried on that bench for hours together. After the tears, a promise to stop thinking about dying, and get busy living a new seemingly impossible dream, to become the greatest Special Olympic Powerlifter in the world. They had yet to lift a weight when Chevi drove that car into traffic. They have never stopped lifting weights, and one another since that day on the park bench.

Chevi Peters won Gold medals in deadlift for lifting 350 pounds, squatting 275 pounds and for achieving a combination score of 785, an accumulation of how much he lifted in each category, which made him a three-time world champion at the Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles. He did all this while weighing only 118 pounds!

John Lair was recognized as the 2014 Special Olympics North America Coach of The Year, an honor awarded to a single individual among 120 thousand fellow volunteers. The impressive scope and contributions of all those coaches, puts the momentousness of this award into perspective.

John embodies Special Olympics’ commitment to providing every athlete with the quality coaching they deserve,” said Annette Lynch, Senior Manager, Coaching Excellence & Sport Education, Special Olympics North America, adding, “what he accomplishes through his coaching is truly exemplary – he represents the best of the best amongst hundreds of thousands of excellent volunteer coaches. His technical expertise, combined with his deep commitment to, and compassion for, the athletes of Special Olympics should inspire us all to do more and reach further. His coaching and caring don’t stop when the whistle blows.”

We encourage to listen and find out techniques that John and Chevi have used to achieve what people would believe to be impossible. Enjoy this episode of The Jim Huber Show!

What You will Hear In This Podcast

0:36- Getting to know coach John Lair and Chevi Peters
2:08- How Chevi chose to be a power lifter
3:15- The conversation at the park bench that saved Chevi’s life
4:57- A tragedy in coach Lair’s life that motivated him to help Chevi and start Special Olympics in Pittsburg, Kansas
8:00- The pure joy of Special Olympics that everyone should experience
11:04- The importance of teaching life skills through sports
13:15- The unreal numbers Chevi performed to become “World Champion”
15:31- Explanation of why Chevi is nick named the “Manimal”
17:06- Goal setting is an important tool that coach Lair uses with his athletes
17:54- Different ways to get involved and make an impact through Special Olympics
19:25- Ways to get the best out of your athletes
21:17- How Chevi has impacted coach Lair and Special Olympics
23:53- The support Under Armour has shown to Chevi
24:38- Celebrities Chevi has met through being a “World Champion”
26:12- Ways to donate to New Hope Bulldogs

Follow New Hope Bulldogs, Coach John Lair and Chevi Peters on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/newhopebulldogs/

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#27 Cameron Belden “How To Earn A College Basketball Scholarship”

July 13, 2016 by Jim Huber 2 Comments

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Why You Should Listen?

Every player wants that coveted college scholarship, but beyond being told to work hard, they don’t receive a ton of other information about how exactly to go about procuring the scholarship they want. For most parents it’s a mystery as well, as we struggle to find the right program and coach that can help our children make the jump to the next level. How much do grades matter? Do recruiting services work? Do college coaches actually watch “mixtapes” that players send them? Are Showcases the best place to be seen? What exactly are college coaches looking for when they come to see your son or daughter play?

The answers to all these questions and much more in this edition of the Jim Huber Podcast with special guest and recruiting guru Cameron Belden. Cameron has held assistant coach positions at Cowley County Community College and Hutchinson Community College. Belden is a graduate of Wichita State University where he received his Bachelors degree. He also served a year as a student assistant under Head Coach Mark Turgeon. His two years of playing collegiately, combined with his coaching experience has taught him basketball recruiting from every angle.

Enjoy this episode of The Jim Huber Show!

What You Will Hear In This Podcast

1:07- What is Mullen Sports Enterprises
2:33- How Junior College Basketball has changed over the last 25 years
3:59- Why is the transfer rate so high in Division I College Basketball
6:26- Questions to ask to find out if the level, school and basketball program is a great fit
9:24- How do you know when a school is really interested in a student-athlete during the recruiting process
10:58- Tips for a player to perform well in front of college coaches
12:42- What college coaches look for when watching a recruit during a game
14:04- Players need to understand how they interact with officials is important as well
15:21- What a parent and player should look for in finding a quality spring/summer team
18:26- Ways that parents lose recruiting opportunities for their child
21:11- Why the spring/summer season has become the most important part of the basketball recruitment process
24:41- The importance of high core GPA and ACT/SAT scores in being recruited over other prospects
25:12- The difference from being recruited at the DII, DIII and NAIA levels compared to the DI level
26:29- When do most DII, DIII and NAIA players sign letter of intents
28:15- What is the benefit of going Junior College or Prep School

To see upcoming Mullen Sports events go to http://www.mullensports.net/

You can follow Cameron Belden at @cbMullenSports

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#26 Scott Simpson “How To Keep Your Child Happy And Playing Into Their Teens”

June 14, 2016 by Jim Huber 1 Comment

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70% of children, which means more than likely, your child, will walk away from the game they once loved by the time they are thirteen years old, never to play again. Basketballs are left buried and deflated alongside abandoned gloves, bats and soccer balls as kids flee today’s high pressured rat race that is youth sports.

Think back to how much you loved playing and square that with the fact that 7 out of 10 kids say, “I don’t want to play anymore, it’s no fun,” largely because of the pressures placed on them by overzealous parents and coaches and programs with misplaced priorities.

In this Jim Huber Podcast, solutions are provided to help keep your child’s joy alive and their development moving forward into their teens. You will be given questions to ask a club director and/or coach to make sure it is the right fit. You will also understand how to evaluate practices, games and workouts to verify you made a good decision.

Troy and I were fortunate to visit with Scott Simpson who has spent years coaching basketball on all levels: 1 year in the NBA, 1 year at Division I, 3 years at Junior College, 10 years at High School and 4 years running a Basketball Club. He as well has had the experience of finding the right situations in soccer for his daughter who is only a freshman and is already getting recruited at the Division I level.

Enjoy this episode of The Jim Huber Show!

What You will Hear In This Podcast

2:53- 5 Areas that you should make sure a club program provides for your child
4:10- The importance of finding out what your child’s goals are
5:17- Great questions to ask your child
6:17- Finding an opportunity for your child to develop a skill set in a particular sport
7:54- A player’s success story from not being given up on early on in his life
9:20- Understanding that playing on an Elite Team might not be best for your child
11:04- Coaches can Make or Break Players
12:34- Questions you to need to ask a club/team before your child commits to them
14:57- Don’t do these things while watching your child’s practice
16:32- Find coaches that don’t set bad examples for your child
17:18- Are exposure camps valuable for your child to attend
20:21- The challenges of finding a quality basketball club for your child to play for
23:07- Questions to ask a coach to find out if they are best fit to coach your child
25:52- The difference from Player Development and Team Development
29:37- Make sure you are making a positive investment in your child’s youth sports experience
31:00- Who’s better Golden State or 1995-96 Chicago Bulls?

You can receive inspiring and motivating information on a daily basis from Scott Simpson by emailing him at coachhomer@mac.com

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10 Traits All Great Shooters Share

May 26, 2016 by Jim Huber 1 Comment

As I blog today I sit here in awe of Stephen Curry’s 15 point outburst in 118 seconds last week to even the series verse Oklahoma City Thunder. He is hands down the most amazing shooter in the history of shooting. Period! End of discussion. He’s so great that the three, shot by a 6’3” skinny gym rat – is now THE most exciting play in the NBA, a league filled with the most talented, strong and freakish athletes the world has ever seen. It’s like watching David slay Goliath on a nightly basis. You never get tired of seeing the little man sling that rock and nail that target from a mile away (unless of course, you are Goliath, in which case, it gets really old, really fast).

All of the amazement Steph has generated has of course led to a ton of discussion and thought on the art of shooting among coaches, players and fans, and I’m right there with all of you. I am drawn like a moth to a flame to any article or video from a great source about the path that Steph has taken to his superhuman abilities. Some of my fellow coaches, who only had eyes for physical specimens, are now opening their eyes a bit wider when it comes to recruiting true knock down shooters (which are rare finds).

I have a fellow coach, Troy, that helps me out on the Jim Huber Show, Episode #19 Creating The Next Steph Curry. He is obsessed with the science of shooting, and he comes by it honestly, as he has a 6’2” skinny gym rat son, Nic Slavin, who the staff at Breakthrough Basketball have watched develop into an elite level shooter. I’ve had a front row seat watching this kid develop as a shooter from the 7th grade to now going into his senior year at Olathe South High School next year. As a junior, Nic led 6A Kansas in 3 point shooting with 67 makes in 21 games at 42.7 percent. He had 6 games this season with 5 or more made 3 point baskets. Along the way, Troy and I have had a five year running discussion of shooting during Nic’s development. Below are some of the important things that I have learned along the way.

10 TRAITS THAT GREAT SHOOTERS SHARE

They shoot every day. Shooting is about repetition. There are no shortcuts to greatness when it comes to shooting. If you practice a couple of times a week, expect mediocre results. Practice daily? The odds of becoming “great” as a shooter rise dramatically.

They have repeatable mechanics. Every shot has the same characteristics. Great shooters don’t go to the gym and shoot 500 shots. Great shooters go to the gym and shoot the same shot, 500 times. Some of the mechanics I emphasize in workouts involve finishing with the elbow above the eye (for proper arc), putting the index finger down through the rim, and “freezing the follow through” to give the ball a chance to go in the basket. Your feet should always be the same, shoulder width apart and slightly staggered. The shoulders should mirror the feet, if the feet are slightly staggered, the shoulders should match the feet.

Great shooters believe every single shot is going down as they shoot it. They accept the fact that not every shot will go in, but they believe every shot is going in as they shoot it. You have to learn to expect and seek perfection, while understanding that perfection is impossible. There is a reason they call it “shooting” and not “making”. Same reason fishing is called fishing and not catching. Shooters miss, but they believe the next shot will be good.

Great shooters immediately go to the next play when they miss a shot. They understand that they cannot control misses; they can only control their preparation before the ball arrives, and their mechanics (their body).

Great shooters go to the gym with a plan. They put their phones away, and they get down to business when they get to the gym. They understand that focus is needed in their workouts. Just going and shooting won’t make you better. Going and shooting game shots, from game spots, at game speed is the way great shooters do their job.

Great shooters make personal concessions to become great. If you are going to be great, you are going to be in the gym on an almost daily basis. That may mean missing some social activities with friends sometimes. Being a great shooter can be a lonely occupation sometimes. It takes time alone in the gym to make it look easy when the lights are on and the game is on the line.

Great shooters have no fear of failure. They want the ball at the end of the game and accept the consequence of taking the big shot. They believe they will make that big shot, and they can live with it if they miss. If you cannot accept failure, you cannot become a great shooter.

Great shooters have an eye for detail. As they warm up close to the basket with feather shots, form shooting, etc., they are their own shot doctor, making the little tweaks and corrections that lead to swishes. They know if their shot is a little flat, they need to finish a little higher for better arc. They know if they are missing to the left or right that they need to concentrate on putting their index finger down through the rim. They are meticulous in their preparation.

Great shooters think “Shot” when they catch the ball. They do this for several reasons. If you are thinking “Shot” as you catch, you are immediately a threat and the defense must respond accordingly. If you catch and are truly ready to shoot, your defender must close out quickly with hands up. If they closeout late, the shot is gone. If they closeout well, they are vulnerable to the drive.

Great shooters understand what a great shot is. Shaquille O’Neal was a great shooter because he understood what a great shot for him was (a Dunk). He made around 60 percent of his shots for his career because he only took shots he knew he could make. For a perimeter player, the formula is simple. If you can make 8 out of 10 unguarded shots in practice daily from a spot, you will make about 4 to 5 out of 10 from that spot in a game with a defender. If for instance you cannot make 8 of 10 consistently from 3 in practice, you really don’t have any business launching 3’s in a game setting.

You will find some other great insights about how to develop into a great shooter in this podcast Episode #19 Creating The Next Steph Curry.

#25 – Is Stan Van Gundy Right About Win At All Costs?

May 9, 2016 by Jim Huber 1 Comment

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Why You Should Listen?

Winning is important, but how you win is more important. In this JHS podcast, we examine how misplaced priorities in the form of trophies, medals and rankings have encouraged a “Win At All Costs” mentality, where all sorts of shenanigans end up taking place, all at expense of the true mission, developing players into young men and women who will be remembered for the way they played the game and lived their lives.

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Without proper player development and enjoyment of playing the game, players will never succeed at the higher levels because they won’t be good enough, they won’t want to practice and they won’t develop the important successful life skills. As coaches we need to put our egos aside and focus on developing the players to be the best they can be.

Here are a few “Win At All Costs” strategies that don’t support long-term development: playing in zones at young ages, trapping with three different players, only playing your best players, sticking a big person under the rim never allowing them to touch the ball, constantly picking up better kids throughout the season, allowing poor body language/poor attitude, not showing up to practices but still playing over kids that show up all the time, running plays for one kid to get all the shots, etc.

The youth basketball system has been flawed for awhile and we all need to put in an effort to help fix it. Our focus should be on needs of the children, not the adults need to win. Our focus needs to be on making this game more enjoyable.

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https://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/coaching/van-gundy-youth-basketball.html

What You will Hear In This Podcast

1:21- Why Zone Defense doesn’t develop kids for long term growth
2:47- What age to incorporate a Zone Defense
3:45- Can any player learn how to be a good defender
5:26- Importance of focusing on the process versus the outcome
7:18– “Win At All Costs” tactics that shouldn’t be used in youth sports
8:35- What your best players must do to help your team succeed at a high level
12:01- Struggles that coaches face with recruiting at the grass root and high school levels
13:48– What a coach can focus on to limit players leaving their program
15:23- The balance between winning verse player development
17:29- Should every kid play an equal amount of time

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#24 Chris Oliver “What One Coach Learned in a Trip Around the Basketball World”

April 8, 2016 by Jim Huber Leave a Comment

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Why You Should Listen?

“University of Windsor Head Coach Chris Oliver has literally traveled the globe like Indiana Jones, seeking training and coaching treasures hidden in faraway lands. In this Jim Huber Podcast, we sit down with Chris after he recently arrived back in Canada after trekking through the USA, Europe, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia on an extended sabbatical with one mission, to learn everything he could by attending hundreds of NBA, College and Overseas Professional and Club practices.

We will also go into Coach Oliver’s innovative Basketball Decision Training (BDT) and Zero Seconds Training. These systems will enable you to create game like situations that will drastically improve your players’ decision making and skill sets at the same time.

This approach has helped Coach Oliver win an impressive seventy-five percent of his conference games and capture five OUA West regular season titles, two OUA West playoff titles, a Wilson Cup Ontario Championship, and earn two berths to the CIS National Championships.

Coach Oliver is the founder and operator of Basketball Immersion. Basketball Immersion is a one-stop website dedicated to all aspects of playing and teaching the game of basketball. He is also the founder of COBA Basketball Camps and a camp director for Breakthrough Basketball.

Enjoy this episode of The Jim Huber Show!

What You will Hear In This Podcast

0:59- Chris Oliver used year sabbatical to travel the world and study basketball
2:11- The reason European basketball teaches the one handed pass
4:18- Importance of focusing on the process instead of outcomes in player development
5:49- A major difference observed from European and American practices
7:17 – The value of BDT (Basketball Decision Training)?
9:55- Using small sided games to teach players how to play and improve skill sets at the same time
11:49- Coaches need to be conscious of speaking for their benefit instead of the players’ benefit
14:08 – What coaches did to impress Chris at the practices he observed
16:36- Creative ways to ask specific questions to stimulate players to communicate
18:48- The need to be comfortable with silence when asking a question
20:29- How to use questions to get the buy in of your team?
21:48- Something that Chris took away from the Northern Iowa vs Texas A&M NCAA Tournament game
24:01- Ways to hold players accountable during practice and keep it flowing
26:30- A coach’s job is to challenge players and help them grow
27:51- What is Zero Seconds Training?
31:05- How do you use BDT in skill development work?
33:35- The value of mixing drills to practice in context of the game
34:33- The desire for Chris to share the game with others and stimulate thinking
35:58- How you can use music to teach rhythm in ball handling

Follow on Twitter: @BBallImmersion

Find information on coach Chris Oliver at www.basketballimmersion.com

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#23 “Bringing Back Toughness with No Zer0 Days Founder Todd Johnson”

March 24, 2016 by Jim Huber 1 Comment

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Todd Johnson has always radiated a fierce energy on the sidelines as a Coach in the college and pro ranks, as well as with Nike sponsored MOKAN teams. This is a guy who was “working” the sidelines, moving, gesturing, pleading, leading and loving. You knew TJ was in the gym. He was a fiery presence. And then, he wasn’t.

The rare form of cancer Todd was diagnosed with, poems syndrome, ravaged his body quickly, causing unbearable pain in his hands and feet. His body faded away in front of his fellow MOKAN coaches and his players, me included. It was hard to watch my friend go from that crazy Tom Creen energy, bouncing up and down that sideline, to a man sitting in a wheelchair, often in agony with what felt like razor blades in his feet.

I’m happy to say I watched my friend and fellow coach walk in on his own and up and down a flight of stairs to record this podcast.

I truly believe we are defined by our responses to adversity in our lives. When TJ found out he had cancer he took it on with the same ferocity he had as a player. We competed with one another since we were 13. He was one of those cocky, confident tough guys that you start off hating when you play them. TJ was always jawing, talking, and he could play. He had preached toughness to his MOKAN players. When cancer struck, it was time to show them.

From the darkness, his one man movement, No Zer0 Days, was born. His daily focus to regain his health, his hard nosed approach to his physical therapy, his toughness and ability to grind inspired his MOKAN players. In the midst of his recovery, he began speaking about the lessons cancer taught him, and the lessons he taught cancer, when it was “game on,” as he says.

We covered a lot of topics in our interview, from dealing with unknowns, developing a successful daily focus, importance of toughness and the value in leading yourself. I want everyone to hear it. Please listen up!

Enjoy this episode of The Jim Huber Show!

What You will Hear In This Podcast

1:22- Who is TJ?
2:00- What is #NoZer0Days?
2:25- TJ and Jim’s early childhood days
3:25- How TJ is motivated to inspire others to live each day with mental toughness
5:10- The challenges that TJ has had to overcome to become pain free
7:35- TJ’s advice in how to deal with all the unknowns in your life
9:07- The daily focus that TJ has taken to help him reach his goals
11:12- If he could go back in time advice TJ would give to himself at 13
12:57- The importance of parents to not enable their children
13:45- The negative impact of living through your kids
15:02 – Strategies that coaches can take to connect with their players
21:36- What kids need to do to lead themselves to a positive change
23:31- You can’t lead until you can lead yourself
24:50 – The impact that No Zer0 Days has had on people
25:52 – Ways to communicate and book TJ as a speaker

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Find information about No Zero Days at www.nozerodays.org (Site will be up in early April, 2016)

Communicate or book TJ for speaking at coachtjjohnson@gmail.com

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#22 Don Kelbick Part 2 “How to Develop an Attack Mentality”

March 7, 2016 by Jim Huber 3 Comments

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Why You Should Listen?

In this Jim Huber Podcast, you will learn Don Kelbick’s comprehensive system that simplifies the game for players at all levels and all positions. As the name implies, it’s based on an “attack” and then “counter” philosophy. It’s incredibly simple when compared to other skill development programs. Yet it works with NBA and pro players at the highest level as well as players at the youth level.

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Don Kelbick understands basketball and player development so well, that he has dramatically simplified the moves, the mentality, and the way you practice your skills.

He doesn’t believe in the shot fakes or reading the defense, and his “triple threat” is completely different from basketball’s traditional shoot, pass or dribble mentality. Breakthrough Basketball’s Don Kelbick is one of the most unique thinkers in basketball, and the NBA and world basketball community are listening.

Coaches like Jeff Van Gundy have trusted Don and his methods to develop the skills and mentality that players need to succeed in the toughest league in Earth, the NBA. Players like Raja Bell, Bruce Bowen, Carlos Arroyo and JJ Barea have all revolutionized their game skills and mental approach to the game under Don’s unconventional approach to skill training.

Enjoy this episode of The Jim Huber Show!

What You will Hear In This Podcast

0:40- Teaching attacking defenses instead of reading defenses
1:57- Skill development needs to be a focus of every practice
4:54 – How over coaching can be detrimental to a player’s development
6:34 – The three levels of correction that are effective
11:24 – The Shot, Shot, Shot Triple Threat Mentality
22:10 – Should post players look middle, baseline or just attack
24:51 – Counters that should be taught with particular pivots
30:56 – Should a player use a shot fake
34:20- The most effective philosophy to implement when working with NBA and professional players

Don Kelbick Basketball Videos and eBooks

Skill Development
Workout App
Fast Break
Offense
Defense

Follow on Twitter: @kelbickd

Find information on coach Don Kelbick at http://www.donkelbickbasketball.com/

Get information on Don Kelbick’s camps with Breakthrough Basketball at https://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/camps

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