Scrolling through Twitter during last minutes of
#Purdue
game and seeing Purdue people complain about Painter is laughable.
Y’all been to Lafayette? He’s winning there every year & doing it the right way.
Be careful what you wish for. Your coach is 1 of the best in the world.
BIG man development w/
@StaseyJames
💪🏼
No player in Indiana has improved more last 12 months than BIG Swim.
Super proud of the work he’s put in. Best is yet to come.
13 Wide Receivers have been taken before David Bell in
#NFLDraft2022
I can guarantee this: 13 WR in this draft will NOT have a better
#nfl
career than
@DB3LL
13 players any position probably won’t have the impact Dbell will have.
When your mom and baby room is right next to a rival coach, you have to snag a pic. Future MIC rivals, but maybe a future AAU backcourt in the making!! Congrats to
@coachjrhowell
and his wife on their beautiful baby boy. 🟡⚫️>🔵🟡
@WarrenHoops
@CARMEL_BBALL
Players: You should NOT play organized games year round.
AAU every weekend April-May-July, then June w/ HS, then fall league, then HS season Nov-Mar w/ no rest is not conducive to development.
You need planned rest & recovery periods & time w/out games to focus on development.
Son
#2
is here.
Griff Amos Winegar.🙏
3/19/22. 9:18 pm. 7 lbs, 10 Oz.
Pumped to be this little guys father and let him in on all the fun we’ve been having with his older brother.
Mommy and baby are doing well and we’re back home.
If he gets the job, I’ll delete this and act like I like him, but if you want me to get excited about Scott Drew, then you and I have different expectations for the quality of individual that should lead the Men’s basketball team at Indiana University.
#iubb
So many go into making this moment possible. If I tried to thank everyone, I’d miss. But THANK YOU, everyone. Incredibly grateful to coach these young men. These guys are the true definition of team & toughness.
Let’s keep going.
Relentless. Dynamic. TOGETHER.
@FishersHoops
I don’t care what college kids chant, but, “I wish I had the power to tell them to stop” is laughable. You are one of 3 people with the power. HC, school president, AD.
For as long as I coach, I don’t know if they’ll be another one like last night.
We were dead to rights 4x. Had no business winning the game, but
@FishersHoops
refused to quit.
These two guys Aidan Zimmer & Carter Jone were ready for their opportunity.
I love this team. 🐅❤️
Ruckus Grove Winegar
joined us, just as
@FishersHoops
took care of business at Center Grove w/out me.
Huge shoutout to Sable - ROCKSTAR!
Just as he was born, I looked at the computer to see
@TadenMetzger3
bury a NBA range 3 to win the game in OT. Top tier life moment!
A Life Well Lived 🇺🇸
(Thread below on why I’m playing my late Great Grandpa Frank’s harmonica in the locker room before and after our guys won the Mudsock🔴)
Too many sports parents let their JOY be determined by their child’s performance in a game.
As a parent, I hope I never let my joy be impacted by whether my sons put a ball in a hoop.
Don’t be the visibly uncomfortable parent because your kid is having a rough game.
HS hoopers play 24+ games in a season.
YET, still some coaches believe players shouldn’t lift on game day.
Question: WHEN DO YOU WANT TO PEAK?
If it’s in the tourney, then you need to lift on game day.
Eliminate excuses; Get after it. You’ll get tougher & perform better.
3 most common times players turn it over in Dribble Drive motion🏀
1. Trying to Drive Single Gaps
2. Paint to paint chest passes (should be bounce or lob)
3. Weak hand baseline drives from corner
Eliminate these 3 situations from DDM or any offense & TOs will decrease by 50%+
I can’t express how grateful I am for
@CrissBeyers
and the opportunity he gave me when I was a young coach and had no idea what I was doing.
Coaching against each other now is strange, but I will always cherish the 3 years spent as his assistant and the many lessons learned.
I dont envy the decisions & am not criticizing them, but as many schools start virtually and sports are in jeopardy, I fear the long term impact continued isolation will have on young ppls mental health. I hope the decisions are made in fact and logic and not fear and propaganda.
KG will make an immediate impact for the Jags and help
@CoachCorsaro
establish a winning and tough minded culture from day 1.
Super proud of what you’ve done over the last two years as a player and for our program. Future is bright. Congrats
@keenan_garner13
#2
we’re ready for you! ❤️
March is already one of the greatest months ever. This year it gets better.
@sablecaroline
, Guyton and I couldn’t be more excited for March 2022.
Remember when Shrews called out his players lack of effort 10 days ago & 1/2 the dorks on here were saying things like “there’s no place in todays coaching for this”
Coach is a helluva coach & man and it’s obvious these kids respected him enough to take what he said to heart.
Couldn’t be more proud of Kirb!
True testament of trusting process & putting in the work.
8th - B team
9th - 9th tm
10th- started JV, moved full Var around Xmas
11th - KEY piece State Ship team 💍
@FishersHoops
12th- Multiple D1 offers
Just getting started. SKY is the LIMIT!
Becoming a father is the best thing I’ve ever done.
Judging by how he picked up this ball, hand placement is already better than a lot of the guys we start with. Shooting hand needs to get a little more under the ball, but we’ll get it there.
Trailing by 1 heading into the 4th quarter, this group of guys was calm & collected. It’s comforting as a coach to look into the eyes of the guys across from you in the huddle and KNOW that they are going to find a way.
Truly a special group of young men!
@fishersbasketball
I’m sick for ISU &
@CoachSchertzISU
- 29th in the NET, top 10 in country in offensive efficiency.
Coach has done a phenomenal job for the Sycamores, and everyone in country wanted this team in.
Don’t envy the selection committee’s job but ISU better than so many of these teams.
Having 6 different types of coffee makers at home, all to still wait 30 minutes for my wife’s Starbucks order before every road trip always puts me into the Holiday spirit.
Happy 1st Birthday to my son!
In 29 years of life, being your dad is without a doubt the best thing I have done.
Can’t believe a year has already flown by. Slow down, time.
#1
thing I’d look for in a HS player if coaching in college = WINNING.
High major recruits that have never won anything would scare me.
Get winners. Winners win.
Too many coaches recruiting off rankings from a dork that watched a kid once in AAU w/ no scouting & little D.
JonAnthony Hall just keeps winning. A state basketball title, a state track and field title. Now a "big" football offer. On the Fishers' star and his upcoming official visits, juggling three sports.
Lots of talk on Caitlin Clark & Angel Reese.
I don’t love all the actions of either, but seems their teammates love them & they’re good people. Stuff happens in battle.
However, those coming for Angel who didn’t say anything about Caitlin, everyone sees you & gets it. STOP.
College coach called me last night as he was watching one of our
@FishersHoops
players:
“He took a charge down 18 in last 5 min of AAU game. You don’t see many guys do that.”
TOUGHNESS matters. Being RELENTLESS regardless of score matters.
AAU teams holding practice on Wed or Thur across the country where they’re playing on Fri or Sat, forcing families to travel 1-2 days early, spend more 💰 & forcing kids to miss MORE school is asinine.
2-3 zone work & your quick hitters could be put in Friday pregame, TRUST ME.
3 Years of playing Papaw Frank’s Harmonica 🎼
I’m the first Winegar male in a long time to not serve, and I think about that often when dealing with the stresses & “hardships” of being a Bball coach.
“Perspective is hard to find and slippery to hold.”
Thanks to
@BoilerBall
Head Coach
@CoachPainter
for coming to today’s workout. 🏀
Coach is one of the best in the business and as humble as they come. Always great to have him in the gym.
We appreciate you taking time to visit Fishers 🐅
After a great conversation, I am blessed to receive a division 1 offer from Indiana University. Thanks to Coach Woodson And Coach Fife for this opportunity!
Congrats to Coach Beyers on being named the Indiana All-Star team head coach. Well deserved! Few have made as many contributions to Baskeball in this state at all levels.
PUMPED for
@FHSLadyTigersBB
🐅
Fantastic job by Coach Votaw, her staff & players.‼️
Sectional 8 CHAMPS!🏆
In last 4 years, Lady Tigs are now 83-14 w/ 2 sectional championships, while doing things the right way!
Not a program in the state operating at a higher level.
#4more
@Jacob_B_28
@annie1678
Hi Jacob, I'm sitting on the warren central players bus. It is a charter bus that does not have windows. So, that's impossible. I apologize for what the student body fan bus may be doing, but definitely not these players or this staff.
What a battle tonight In the
#Mudsock
game.
@FishersHoops
pulls off a close one in double OT. Super proud of our guys resiliency.
@CoachAshworth
is doing a phenomenal job in year 1 at HSE. I know this is the first battle of many for us in this Mudsock rivalry.
Millen makes winning plays every night. We needed this after struggling in the first.
@millenmccartne1
is a winner and makes these type of plays every night.
Birds of a flock fly together.
Lazy people run in packs.
Losers find other losers.
Complainers love complainers.
Grinders know grinders.
Winners find other winners.
Who’s in your circle?
Takes grit & character to be as engaged as Leal has been without meaningful minutes. Awesome to see him make such big plays tonight.
More importantly, his leadership on the court is evident for the Hoosiers.
Congrats
@anthonyl3al
- listen to some Zach Bryan tonight and enjoy.
2 places confidence comes from
1️⃣ Preparation
2️⃣ What you tell yourself (self-talk)
No one can take or give you confidence. Only you can EARN it or give it away.
Saw this from
@PGCbasketball
yesterday. Players/parents/trainers stop the blame the coach game & put in the work!
Jealous of 🏈 coaches for their on the way to school drive on gameday.
Crisp fall mornings with cotton candy skies. Just feels like football.
🏀 season I remove snow from my car and scrape a square into my window and pray. And don’t see sun for 5 months 😂
…. Somebody was killed. Whether he’s innocent or not, mocking a situation where a 23 year old mother died is tone deaf at best and probably much worse. Disappointing to see. Disappointing that it’s allowed by leadership.
If you’re a believer, spend some time in prayer today for our nation, specifically the oppressed. Pray for justice for George Floyd. Pray for guidance on your own prejudices. And pray for another generation of kids witnessing an America who treats its own people like less than.
HCC Champions 🐅
With tonight’s win over Westfield, the Tigers move to 6-0 in the Hoosier Crossroads Conference, clinching the conference title for the 3rd time in 4 years and the 4th time in school history.
Relentless. Dynamic. Together.
Congrats to
@MillerNationAD
&
@CoachMac_1
on a Sectional 8 championship.
So much respect for Coach Mac. Great coach, better guy and just won sectional 8 in year 2. Congrats Coach!
Such great players, coaches & competition in Sectional 8. Can’t wait for our chance to try again.
My favorite thing about AAU season is getting texts about
@FishersHoops
guys playing the RIGHT way.
Culture isn’t culture if it ends when your season is over. If your culture is real, your a players take it with them.
A coaching friend called the Monday after Sectionals “Black Monday”.
Hope all the coaches & players experiencing the post season blues are finding something enjoyable to do today.
Luckily, these 2 dudes make it a little less insufferable.
Back to racing monster trucks…
College Coach: “We really like him, but he’s a PALMS UP PLAYER. Not sure he fits.”
Players: Don’t be a “Palms Up Player” 🗣
Palms Up Player {noun} - Player who constantly has both palms up, looking exasperated, complaining to officials, teammates, coaches or all of the above.
Players: Fight that ticking clock with everything you got.
Your 4 years in HS will go by in a blink. If you’re talented enough to play at the next level, those 4 years will go faster.
Maximize it. Don’t get complacent. Use every day to get better & leave no room for regret.
Took a week to post; Couldn’t come to grips with the fact I coached this group for the last time.
Humbled & blessed to have coached these young men. This team & this senior class did more for
@FishersHoops
than they know. Thank you to them & our staff.
(Continued in pictures)
Basketball is a SIMPLE game.
We’ve over complicated it with an obsession with analytics, fancy & gimmicky training aides, and an unlimited access to plays/resources.
At the end of day, teams that:
- DEFEND
- SHARE BALL
- REBOUND
- TAKE CARE OF BALL
- TAKE GREAT SHOTS
WIN.
I see a lot of, “I had to get off Twitter; It’s just too negative.”
Maybe, audit your follows. I see 0️⃣ negativity because I refuse to follow it.
I follow friends & accounts based in my passions: Basketball & Coaching, leadership, fitness & nutrition, business/finance, sports.
Guyton’s first basketball card 🏀
The coolest Birthday gift of the day. Guyton’s Great Grandpa got him an autographed card of the player he was named after.
One day when we’re watching
@ajguyton
clips and teaching him the step-cross he’ll appreciate this card.
#iubb
Ecstatic for my brother
@coachadrianmoss
& his
@Franklin_Hoops
program. Winning the Sectional in his first year as head coach. The first Sectional title for Franklin since he played there!
What an accomplishment.
Been a rough week since our loss & brought me joy to see AD win.
Is there anything better than the post 🏆 ice bath?
Honored to coach these guys.
For more behind the scenes of Fishers Basketball State Title week, preparation & game, check out the documentary - “Fishers Boys Basketball: Chasing a Championship”
Congrats to
@CoachJoeLeonard
and
@CoachWimmer
on their retirements and final day at Fishers. I have enjoyed getting to know both of them in my first year here.
Great coaches and men who have contributed so much to athletics at FHS.🐅⚔️
The 1 smart thing I’ve done as a coach the last 2 years is hire staffs that are better than me.
Cannot wait to see the impact these men have on all current & future
@FishersHoops
hoopers.
Blessed to learn from & be challenged by them. Excited to be in the trenches daily!⚔️
My wife and I are notorious for blaming each other for taking the phone chargers.
With
#3
en route, we had to upgrade to a minivan, so her old car became my new car.
Cleaned it out and there were 8 iPhone charger cables inside. 6 working, 2 not working.
Mystery solved. 😂
Congratulations to Fishers’ Parker Perdue, the 2024 recipient of the Arthur L. Trester Mental Attitude Award for Class 4A Basketball, presented by the Indiana Pacers and Indiana Fever! 🎓🏀
@Pacers
@IndianaFever
@FHSTigers
He’ll never leave, but I’m dead serious, if I’m the Simon’s I’d offer Brad Stevens a % stake in the organization, a guaranteed front office role whenever he’s done coaching (must coach 5) and a ten year GUARANTEED contract. Make a ridiculous offer. Come home, come home.
#Pacers
Grateful for the
@HoopsHall
tourney committee for this opportunity for our program.
Excited to compete in this great event, in this historic venue, and compete with my brother, Coach Moore &
@warsaw_hoops
Coach is a valued friend & mentor and one of best in the business.
Winners:
Show up early or Stay late. Can’t do the minimum.
Winners:
Change room with their energy. Weight room, gym, field, classroom.
Winners:
Learn from losses & mistakes.
Winners:
Want to be coached.
Winners:
Creating winning routines & habits.
Winners:
Win.
More kids quit HS than ever before because it’s the 1st time they have to be about something outside of themselves.
AAU=about YOU. Private training=about you.
HS hoops is 1st time for many that it’s about THE TEAM.
Don’t quit! Being part of the TM & something bigger matters!
(THREAD) I asked a head D1 & former NBA ass. coach in a Zoom this wk what he looks for in Assistants. He shared w/ my staff the 9 Traits he NEEDS from his coaches: 1)Heart 2)Production 3)ENERGY 4)BuyIn 5)Trust 6)Teachable Spirit 7)Emotional Strength 8)Reliability 9)Protection
I’m all for mental health awareness but also there is just acting like a selfish brat.
I’m not saying that is the case with Antonio Brown (I don’t know) but if every time someone acts like a child we blame it on mental health then we lose ever holding someone accountable.
First 8 games for
@FishersHoops
11/21 @ Ben Davis (
#1
)
11/25 @ LaPorte
11/28 @ Tech
12/1 vs Noblesville (
#8
)
12/2 vs Mt Vernon (
#19
)
12/9 vs Kokomo (
#2
)
12/15 @ HSE
12/22 @ Center grove (
#7
)
5 preseason top 20 games before Christmas. Excited to find out who we are 🐅
HUGE shoutout to
@FHSTigerCage
for the attendance & energy last night and all season.
When I came to
@FishersHoops
, I heard a lot about how the students & community did not support hoops.
Could not be further from the truth this year. Let’s keep it rolling & keep getting LOUD.
Shaheen Holloway has instilled so much confidence in his guys.
We talk a lot about playing without fear. St. Peter’s has played without fear the entire tourney and are not wavering tonight.
A fearless man is a dangerous man. Peacocks are dangerous!
Happy 3rd wedding anniversary to the best wife & momma. She’s got the tough job of being a coach’s wife and is on team three in the process. From purple to black & gold to red & white, she’s been in the stands supporting. Love you
@sablecaroline