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Taking over and turning around a losing program takes a plan, and Kevin Thomas has been the man with a plan at State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Missouri.

Coach Thomas applied the principles he learned playing for college basketball’s all-time winningest coach Gene Bess with 1,243 wins.  He took over a struggling 4 and 24 program and turned it into a nationally ranked program in three years.

In this Jim Huber Podcast, you will receive tales from JUCO land, the secrets to recruiting, motivating players to buy in and win.

Enjoy this episode of The Jim Huber Show!

What You will Hear In This Podcast

• 1:18- Playing for Gene Bess who has won over 1,200 games
• 3:30- How to use KISS as a recipe for success
• 4:30- The importance of developing well rounded players
• 5:51- Ways to keep it simple on the defensive end of the court
• 6:51- How Kevin Punter fought through adversity to star at Tennessee
• 10:16- Strategies that Coach Thomas has used to develop All-Americans
• 11:43- What we can learn from Marcus Mondaine’s life?
• 13:35- The characteristics that coaches love to see in players they coach
• 16:27- The reasons that a player should attend Junior College
• 17:30- How do you find a school that is the right fit?
• 19:45- Experiences of playing with former NBA player Isaiah Rider

Find information on Coach Kevin Thomas and State Fair Basketball at: http://sfccmoroadrunners.com/sports/mbkb/index

Hit me up @jimhubershow

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Why You Should Listen?

In this Jim Huber Podcast, you will learn the art of shooting with NBA shooting instructor Dave Love.  While with the Phoenix Suns, Coach Love was able to increase players’ shooting percentages.  These successes led him the opportunity to work with Grant Hill and DeShawn Stevenson, as well being hired by Oklahoma City Thunder as a shooting consultant.

In 2013, Coach Love was hired by the Cleveland Cavaliers to work with fellow Canadian Tristan Thompson.  Thompson became the first player in NBA history to switch his dominant hand, and under Coach Love’s guidance increased his career high from the free throw line from 60% to 69%.

He is currently the Orlando Magic shooting coach.  Coach Love has had a huge impact on Aaron Gordon, who has said, “Dave Love is a shooting guru…”

This podcast is an opportunity for you to be a fly on the wall while a respected NBA shooting instructor discusses his passion and art, making the best shooters in the world better.

Enjoy this episode of The Jim Huber Show!

What You will Hear In This Podcast

• 0:27- Who is Dave Love?
• 3:14- The reason that Coach Love doesn’t teach the “Sweep and Sway”
• 4:22- The opportunity to be mentored by Chip Engelland
• 5:36- Ways to develop credibility as a coach with NBA players
• 9:31- Two most important mechanics in shooting for Coach Love
• 11:30- Should you teach the hop or the 1-2 stop?
• 15:16- Strategies to use in developing the mindset of an elite shooter
• 17:53- The benefits of using a word or gesture to communicate a key point
• 20:17- How much time should be spent on form shooting?
• 22:31- The progressions that Coach Love uses in teaching form shooting
• 23:19- The importance of touch to be a successful shooter
• 25:24- Can you get to a place of quiet confidence?
• 27:25- Simple strategy to implement that will help a shooter keep a positive perception
• 29:31- The process that led Tristan Thompson to switch shooting from left-handed to right-handed

Follow on Twitter: @CoachDaveLove

Find information on Coach Dave Love at http://www.coachdavelove.com/

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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.

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

Please leave a reply if you have any suggestions or comments about the “Win At All Cost” mentality or hit me up at @jimhubershow

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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”

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/

Please leave a reply if you have any comments about the Coach Brown’s experiences coaching for Coach Summitt and Coach Meyer or hit me up at @jimhubershow

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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

Please leave a reply if you have any suggestions or comments about the “Win At All Cost” mentality or hit me up @jimhubershow

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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.

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.

Enjoy this episode of The Jim Huber Show!

Click This Link to View a More Detailed Article From Breakthrough Basketball on Win At All Cost Mentality

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

Please leave a reply if you have any suggestions or comments about the “Win At All Costs” mentality or hit me up at @jimhubershow

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“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

Click Here to Get information on Chris Oliver’s camps with Breakthrough Basketball 

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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

Follow on Twitter: @coachtjjohnson

Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/nozer0days

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

Hit me up @jimhubershow or reply back to this email

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