Sam Allen
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In 19yrs,Tim Duncan was never late for a practice, workout, bus. That's a standard of excellence u tend to take for granted.
-Monty Williams
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Brad Stevens gets a lot of credit for his ATOs and end of game plays (and rightfully so), however if that’s where most of your focus goes to his coaching success, you are missing 95% of it. He builds a culture of accountability, teamwork, respect that allows for trust & execution
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PLYRS: When on bench, u have 2 choices: 1 helps,1 hurts
🏀Be engaged=
1)watch the game as a student
2)cheer for teammates
3)listen to coaches coaching
🏀be disengaged=
1) be mad/pout about not playing
2) look in stands, not on floor
3) snicker w/teammates about what coach says
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32 mins in a HS game
Maybe you have the ball in your hands for 1-2 mins
Most of the game is spacing, cutting, screening on offense & sprinting, talking, helping on defense
We need to equip HS players better with how to be successful in the game without the ball
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Bad shots kill team culture & team chemistry
When left un-addressed by either coaches or players, chemistry and culture will erode & fall apart
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PGs
Kick the ball ahead.
Stop dominating the ball with the dribble
Also, be a leader. Be a pest, a disruptor with your on-ball defense
Be the best communicator on offense & defense
Be an extension of the coach.
Talk during dead ball time:
Out of bounds
FTs
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You can transfer schools, switch girlfriends, change jobs, buy new clothes - However - if you don’t look in the mirror and do work on you, nothing changes except the things around you.
Sometimes the grass isn’t greener and you/me just need to water the grass we stand on
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It’s okay to get an “And 1” & walk to the free throw line to shoot your FTs
Despite what mix tapes, or social media tell you to do, it’s okay to let your game speak for itself
It’s also okay to “point to the passer” instead of thumping your chest or 3 fingers to your head
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We put a huge premium on body language. If ur body language is bad, u will never get in the game. I don't care how good u are
-Geno Auriemma
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Jay Wright’s first 3 yrs at Nova:
🏀52-46
Coach K first 3 yrs at Duke:
🏀38-47
John Wooden didn’t win 1st national championship at UCLA until 16th season
Things take time. It’s a process.
#CrockPot
not
#Microwave
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PLYRS:
I Spent time with a D3 coach of a top 25 program recently.
He was telling me about a recruit & how they were going to drop him from their board b/c of 2 things:
🏀poor body language
🏀how they warmed up
This isn’t the sentiment of every coach but for a lot.
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Seniors: You have a responsibility to your younger teammates to lead & show the way. It's not about you-it's about leaving it better than u found it.
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"When you play defense, it shows a commitment to winning. If you don't play defense, it shows a commitment to self over team"
Jeff Van Gundy
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Players
In about 6 months, most of your seasons will be ending
You will take off your jersey for the last time. Your story will have been written
What 3 words would you want your teammates, coaches, opponents to say bout you?
Write those down. Put in locker. Put on fridge.
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In an empty gym with no defenders, can you make that shot 7 out of 10 times CONSISTENTLY?
If yes, shoot that shot in games
If no, and you shoot that in games, your team probably won’t win much
#ShotSelection
Room, rhythm, range
Winning shots > Instagram shots
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We get to teach basketball.
We get to coach basketball.
We get to make a difference and positive impact on kids lives.
Say that to yourself a few times out loud next time you let problems and frustration take over your mind or heart
Let your PURPOSE be bigger than ur problems
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Went to a few HS games over the last couple weeks
One thing still stands true
Big difference between…
PLAYING & COMPETING
Most = Play
Few = Compete
Some plyrs think they are competitive bc they make a positive play & show emotion
Competitors are consistent
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Every time I see a college coach of any sport getting fired after a few years, I think of Coach K at Duke.
He was 38-47 after his first 3 years. Good thing his AD wasn't a microwave leader.
It takes time to build something (program, family, business).
#CrockPot
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Tom Brady was a 6th rd draft pick. Steph Curry wasnt "big enough". Aaron Rodgers didn't have 1 Div1 offer out of HS.
Find ways, not excuses
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If you take 14 dribbles and shoot a step back 3pt, your team isn’t very good.
So, stop working on that with your “trainer”
Too much fluff going on. Let’s teach the game, game-like actions & habits. And use 🏀 to teach young people about life.
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There are players at the HS, College & Pro levels who have been chosen to be on the team because of their attitude more than their ability.
And there are lots of players left off those same rosters b/c of a poor attitude/approach & have the ability.
Players: read 👆a few times
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Kids aren’t soft
Coaches & Parents leading kids are soft
Show me a soft kid & you often find a soft leader in their life
Find a tough kid and you will find a leader(s) in their life who say
“I believe in you. I believe & love you enough that I’ll help hold a standard FOR you
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Players
Your effort in Defensive Transition says everything about your commitment to the TEAM
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Winning Habits
🏀playing off 2 feet
🏀grab loose basketballs
🏀 communicate on defense
🏀be engaged on bench
🏀give up good shot for great
🏀play strong in traps
🏀have “next play” mentality
Winners think about winning & think about the team
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If u don't sprint back on def w/urgency to stop ball, match-up, communicate w/ teammates, u have made a choice that u matter more than team
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Players
The world, Social Media, your friends will tell you your value is in SCORING.
Your value to the TEAM is so much more
Rebound
Defend
Talk on defense
Encourage on bench
Passing
Boxing out
Make extra pass
Great help side defense
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HS Players
If you are serious about getting better, you should be serious about your shooting.
If your program has a shooting Gun & you are not using it multiple times a week, you are not committed to being a great shooter
BE about it > TALK about it
#MasterTheBoring
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Coaches love eye contact.
Why? It builds trust & good coaches play players they trust in crunch time.
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I’m at a 1st grade girls 🏀 gm.
Just heard a parent say,
“I know it’s 1st gr basketball but when the officiating is not fair, I have to say something”
Let’s think on that for a second:
-that implies officials care who wins
-instead of complaining, teach ur child life isn’t fair
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Don’t let your offensive success determine your defensive effort
Champions have unconditional commitment
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Buddy Hield made 19 3fg at 24% as a Freshman.
As a SR, he made 136 3fg at a 46% clip.
Talent is made, not born.
Put in work, no excuses.
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Basketball is an amazing game
High of highs & low of lows
The relationships and the emotional moments & bonds are priceless
Nothing like being a part of a TEAM
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6 MONTHS
6 months can change your life
Was talking to my son few days ago about this as it relates to training & working out
Haven’t told this story on here before I don’t think
As a HS FR, I was a 30/30 guy.
Went in the gm when team was up 30 or down 30 - last plyr off bench
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Coaches
Don’t underestimate the power of 1on1 talks with your players.
Before practice
After practice
During practice
Outside of practice
Consistent Communication builds trust
Trust builds Chemistry
Chemistry makes the experience more fun
Chemistry Wins more
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Players
“I didn’t play well” … also means “I didn’t score or shoot it well”
Measure your game of your competitive effort, filling your role, defensive focus
You can say “I didn’t shoot it well but I did this & this & that”
Re-Train your MINDSET
Learn how to evaluate self
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Coaches love eye contact.
Why? It builds trust & good coaches play players they trust in crunch time.
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A good shot is a good shot on the release, not the outcome
Good teams take pride in getting great shots. They live with the outcomes. They are committed to the process.
The process of shot generation & shot selection. Not shot outcome.
Bad shots kill team chemistry
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An empty gym (or driveway, park), a basketball, an imagination--not many better memories.
Where dreams can become realities.
Fall in love w/the game & process
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COMPETING is a becoming a skill that is more scarce.
Big difference in playing & competing.
Compete on Defense, in transition, loose balls, rebs, on the bench as a teammate.
I asked several coaches yesterday to name the “competitors” on their team....they had tough time
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There is a ceiling to someone’s talent.
There is no ceiling to someone’s hunger and to someone’s drive.
@TeamCoachBuzz
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Steph curry makes 43 out of 100 3pters he takes
Steph Curry misses 57 out of 100 3pters he takes
People call Steph Curry the BEST SHOOTER EVER.
“Failure” is a part of your success plan
Stop tripping over the last play, the missed shot, the bad game. Keep playing. Keep working
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Coaches: good, short listen from my man
@coachneighbors
about re-defining success based on your circumstances and team.
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When you go down by 25 in the 3rd quarter, grab a dry erase board and start drawing something up, I get confused.
X and O ain’t going to fix heart and pride on defense.
Either it matters or it doesn’t.
Offense matters.
Competing, playing together and playing smart matter more
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"When you play defense, it shows a commitment to winning. If you don't play defense, it shows a commitment to self than team"
Jeff Van Gundy
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I was at a HS 9th grade game yesterday. The best player on the floor was also the most vocal.
Plyrs:When you communicate at a high level, it says a few things about you
🏀you care about the team, it’s not about you
🏀you care about winning
🏀you think the game
🏀you are a leader
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Kawhi Leonard shot 25% in 2 yrs @ SDSU
This yr he shot 44.3% in best league in the world.
Talent is made,Not born
Put in work,No excuses
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Seniors:U have a responsibility to ur younger teammates to lead & show the way. It's not about u-it's about leaving it bttr than u found it
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“It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men.”
-Frederick Douglass
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Dribbling is overrated in basketball world, especially in training world
Passing & being a great teammate is underrated
#MasterTheBoring
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Coached 80 mins of Youth Basketball today
We played against 0 mins of man defense.
We’ve worked 0 mins of zone offense in our 3 practices leading into 1st game
We will stick with the process & stay true to our plan. Development, learning offensive principles & man-man def
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Current Basketball World
Heavy on basketball trainers
Light on teachers & developers
#GrowTheGame
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This is what a committed & serious athlete does. They plan out their week and career & don't base their game on hope.
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“The best coaches get the most reps for their players.”
“Kids learn by doing. Not by watching.”
“Utilize your space. Utilize your time.”
-
@ericduft
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Assistant Coaches:
Ideas to think about
🏀be a solution provider, not just a problem identifier
🏀be an energy giver every day
🏀understand that most of your ideas won’t be used by HC-don’t let ur feelings get in way or discourage more ideas
🏀study film, opponent tendencies
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Your ability to shoot the ball says a lot about your ability to put in a lot of work on your own
#Discipline
Show me, don’t tell me you work hard
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We weren't 5-stars. We weren't McDonald's All-Americans. We had to earn everything [and still do].
-CJ McCollum on himself & Damian Lillard
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Plyrs
Instead of flexing after u make the layup u are supposed to make
Or
Complaining to ref after u missed a layup you thought you got fouled on
Just sprint back, compete on defense and be a great teammate
Just b/c u saw ur favorite NBA plyr do that doesn’t mean u should
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Great message here.
Listen 👂 in players.
Always been a fan of Rick Barnes, heard in multiple clinics. Doing a great job in building the UT program.
“When that shot went in, all I could imagine was all the time you put in the gym.”
Hard work pays off.
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Whn T.Duncan finished shooting on the Gun shooting machine,he always puts it away himself.Spurs GM RC Buford "he wont let othrs do his work"
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Confession
I played a 2-3 zone recently late in the game against a BLOB
Our 5th grade team was having some trouble on screen the screener action. It was for about 5 seconds of a 40 mins game
Lord,
Please forgive me of my sins
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Don Meyer’s 3 simple Rules:
1) Everyone takes notes 📝
2) Say “please & thank you and Yes Mam & Yes Sir”
-point is be courteous
3) Everyone picks up trash 🗑
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Tom Brady was a 6th rd draft pick. Steph Curry wasnt "big enough". Aaron Rodgers didn't have 1 Div1 offer out of HS.
Find ways, not excuses
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Cool letter here by George Bush that he left for Bill Clinton on his first day of office.
#RIP
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Assistant Coaches:
Ideas to think about:
🏀be a solution provider, not just a problem identifier
🏀be an energy giver every day
🏀understand that most of your ideas won’t be used by HC-don’t let ur feelings get in way or discourage more ideas
🏀study film, opponent tendencies
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Just show up & be consistent
You will win in the long run.
You will lose some of the battles but keep showing up
Keep working. Keep chopping wood. Keep at it.
Consistency wins
The world will tell you it can happen quick or overnight. Nah, not in my experience
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Kawhi Leonard shot 25% in 2 yrs at San Diego State.
Right now he is shooting 47.8% in the best league in the world.
Talent is made
#Work
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If a coach is uncomfortable holding players accountable, it will be tough for those individuals & the team to achieve their potential
You can choose growth or you can choose comfort…you just can’t choose both
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That’s tough.
4 dribbles end to end
Lay-up
Takes advantage of a cross-match in transition.
Take notes young players.
3 vs 5 - still race and run the ball up the court to take advantage of a disorganized defense.
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It'd be great to see more tweets about toughness & winning stats rather than just point totals
Who made the winning plays?
🏀# of 50/50 loose balls won
🏀charges
🏀box outs
🏀gave up good shot for great shot
🏀rotation on help-side
🏀2nd & 3rd effort plays
🏀handled adversity
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“Promise to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.”
-John Wooden
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S/O to all the HS coaches investing in their plyrs lives, putting extra work in the gym, driving SRs around to college campuses for wrkts, making & taking calls at night helping their kids.
You don’t get social media posts, articles written about u or extra income but I see you!
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Coaches:
All those 1/1 conversations, late night texts, office talks, challenges, loving, pushing, asking, demanding more...it’s all worth it as a coach.
It’s worth the fight. It’s worth it. Fight for those light 💡 bulb moments.
You are changing kids lives, maybe a family tree.
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The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother
-John Wooden
#MothersDay
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Players:
When you communicate, it says this about you:
1) you are a competitor
2) you value winning
3) you value you the Team
Also,
Ever said, “I just lead by example” - okay, great, we need you to do better at leading by example...start COMMUNICATING!
Great players and coaches know that energy and effort follow the sound of your voice. More from PGC Director
@tylercoston
on the importance of communication and echo calls here:
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I lost my Dad last Friday.
This thread is to honor him
He didn’t do social media
Maybe he is reading this smiling down
I miss him like crazy & just want one more conversation with him
If you read this, maybe drop in comments, something your dad or father figure taught you
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You can't step in to lane on box outs, you must step into body and root out.
Little things are big things.
#Habits
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Competing is a Skill
It can be developed
Practice it. Work at it.
In fact, work at it more than some of those dribble moves
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Playing & Competing are 2 different things
Play:
🏀pre-gm warm-up no purpose, no thought, more cool than substance
🏀on Def, just exist no talk, waiting to get back on off end
🏀more concerned Stats>Win
Compete:
🏀warm up w/purpose, energy
🏀def=stance,Pride,Stance
🏀Win>Stats
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Bad body language & lack of receptivity to feedback from coaches & teammates is draining on the TEAM. Contribute or Contaminate
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As a player, I was the last player off the bench & I was the leading scorer
That happened both in my HS & College careers
Thank you Mom & Dad for never letting me place blame on others during the tough times
Thank you for not emailing or calling the coach
Hoops taught me GRIT
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Plyrs:
10 MINUTES
What you do with the 10 minutes before practice starts can literally change your game & season.
🏀Intentional or no plan?
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Run your race
Comparison is the thief of all joy
Compete with the mirror
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Parents:
Be a part of the Solution.
Creating problems & drama only harms the kids.
Playing time is earned in practice & production in gms.Most coaches want to win & will put plyrs on the court that help the team.
Teaching our youth how to communicate for themselves is important
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Shot Selection
🏀 A good shot is a good shot on the release, not when the ball goes in or misses
🏀on balance, in range, in rhythm
🏀3R= range, rhythm, room
@PGCbasketball
@CoachJimBoone
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Recent game we’ve been using in
@BCBBall_
practices that’s had good returns
5-3-1 Scoring
3v3 or 4v4 FIBA
5pts= score on 0 dribbles
3pts= score on 1 dribble
1pt= score on 2 dribbles
TO= 3 dribbles or more
Big credit to
@rudybentleyjr
on creation
Coaches: worth a look
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Foul is a foul.
Even if your an Auburn fan, you got to admit this is a foul.
Clear contact while ball still in hand and defender jumps forward into shooter.
Also, doesn’t allow shooter room to land.
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I think its fair to say he has spent a decent amount of time thinking through the various scenarios, schemes, pros/cons of how to defend Luka
Shows the depth of coaching of acumen when avg fans just have no idea the level of thought that takes place in coaching decisions
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When the ball is loose on the floor in traffic, compete...
Bending over at the waist reaching for the ball = Non Compete
Diving, dropping to the floor and grabbing it = Competing
One way loses games...one way wins games
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EXCUSES
Excuses are for mediocre players.
Forget about excuses. They are enormous wastes of time and words.
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You show how much you care by the way you prepare.
Locker room post game tantrums don’t mean you are competitive or care about winning. Those just mean you can’t control your emotions.
You show how much you care by the way you prepare.
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How you run (jog or sprint) in transition defense says a lot about your commitment to the team and winning.
It says more than your offensive scoring or skill set
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If you are the best player on your team & receiving most of the recognition, accolades, media attention--remember to:
1) acknowledge & recognize teammates as a major reason for ur ind success
2) thank your coaches for putting you in right position(s)
3) stay hungry/out-work othrs
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AAU/Travel Ball Scorekeepers:
Some things that would help the game you are working and our “game” big picture
🏀take out earphones
🏀put phone in pocket
🏀take hood off
🏀be courteous
Recognize you get paid & do your job or go do something else that is better use of your time
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PLYRS/HS kids
There is a kid in ur school right now who is really struggling right now
It may be the kid sitting by himself at lunch. Or it may be the kid that looks like thy have everything together
Take a moment to care about those kids. U never know how far saying hi can go
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Youth basketball formula to WIN (short term)
🏀play zone defense
🏀play your best player the whole game & let them shoot the most
Youth basketball formula for long term FAILURE & development
🏀play zone defense
🏀play your best player the whole game & let them shoot the most
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Parents
Tired of seeing ur son/daughter not get as much “opportunity” as you think they should…
Good…these are the moments when we can shift from “victim” to “OWNERSHIP” mindset
Coaches want to win & will play players they TRUST the most to win
Lean into the uncomfortable
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PLYRS:
It’s about the TEAM.
It has always been always should be
You, the individual, matter.
However, when the following becomes more important than the TEAM, it’s a problem:
🏀your feelings
🏀your stats
🏀your playing time
Check yourself, or good teammates & coaches will.
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