Here are some factors that can affect your confidence in a positive or negative way that I practice weekly as a Coach. I hope these pointers can help you! 1) WORDS ARE YOUR WEAPONS: Watch your words and choose them carefully The ones you say to yourself and others can bring life or death, they …
Happy New Year! As the New Year is among us, I want to help you learn something new. Many of you are students of the game like myself, so if not new, then at least I want to STRETCH your mind and get you thinking about how you can make your team, athletes and yourself …
What is the Most Important Individual Offensive Mental Skill to Teach Players? Read More »
The last blog I posted on The Grind was, What is the most important individual offensive skill to teach? If you haven’t had a chance to read it, do so before you read this blog. Now that we know what the individual offensive skill is, let’s dive into a team offensive skill that I strongly …
The Most Important Team Skill That Needs to be Taught Read More »
What is the most important offensive skill to teach a player? This question is proposed to me very frequently. It’s a GREAT question that has many layers, but to truly be clear and correct, the question has to be more specific. I even did a recent poll and received some interesting answers. Before we start …
What is the Most Important Offensive Skill to Teach a Player? Read More »
The Law of Reciprocity is summed up by, “if you do something nice for me, I’ll do something nice for you.” There has to be great reciprocity in all the relationships you have in your team, family, co-workers, significant other or program’s. What ever you receive from the people and teammates you are involved with, give …
Teach your players what they need to win in life Kevin Sutton, Assistant Basketball Coach at the University of Rhode Island calls it a “living trophy.” Win the day, win the year, win the decades! GAMES IN LIFE Players will have many more games in life than they ever play in basketball. Teach them, expose …
Body & Mind Work Coaches you might not have time to incorporate all of this into your program, but it is IMPORTANT. Players: you have to find a way to get this into your toolbox. Besides family & academics, what else do you have to do? You HAVE the time, you just have to make …
What is the definition of a high level, elite level person and basketball players? Can you spot it? I hear the term ELITE and NEXT LEVEL everyday. People say it in conversations or I read about it, especially in the basketball world. Sure, it’s fun, it’s exciting. High level engages us without a lot of …
This month while I was in China, I had the opportunity to spend some time with great basketball minds over dinner. We talked all things basketball, successful players and winning programs. Enjoy. Mark Amaral – Mark spent many years as the Assistant coach at Pepperdine University, currently an Assistant Coach for Xinjiang Flying Tigers, a …
Coach Calipari I was fortunate enough to have Coach John Calipari recruit me when he was the coach at UMASS in 1990. We ended up seeing each other twice a year, from 1991-1993, when UMASS would kick our Duquesne BUTTS. Following that, he would take a couple of minutes to drop some wisdom to me …