1. Never lose sight of the impact you are having on young people’s lives.
2. Teach your players the importance of proper priorities that allow for maximum personal, academic, and athletic development.
3. Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game.
4. Instruct, don’t dictate.
5. Never humiliate.
6. Communicate your approach in a style that is comfortable to you and fits your personality and philosophy.
7. Learn to anticipate problems.
8. Never announce penalty for rule violations in advance.
9. Enthusiasm creates heroism.
10. If you make a mistake and fall down, you must get back up.
11. Always have a “Thought for the Day.”
12. You are constantly being judged on what you are doing and not what you have done.
13. Be yourself.
14. Be eager to learn.
15. Don’t play players only because they have potential if they do not hustle, work hard, and listen.
16. Never discipline to punish, discipline to teach.
17. We are what we continually do.
18. Do to your opponent what you do not like done to you.
19. Play defense with your feet, eyes, and heart.
20. If you want the attention of your players, use compliments.
21. I believe that repetition of fundamentals at any level will make your players winners.
22. Play hard, play smart, play together, and have fun.
23. You must have total control of your program.
24. I will never curse my players, and they will never curse me.
25. I will never embarrass my players, and they will never embarrass me.
26. Do not assume anything.
27. Listen and learn from your players.
28. Excellence becomes a habit.
29. Don’t ever tell your players to win.
30. Never write a plan for practice that takes longer than two hours.
31. Make your players sprint over to you to begin practice on a hustling, enthusiastic note.
32. Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Yard by yard, it’s really hard.
33. Take time to talk individually with the players you are cutting.
34. Have your players write down their academic and athletic goals at the start of every year.
35. Building team chemistry is the most important thing you can do as a coach
Showing posts with label coaching philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coaching philosophy. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Anatamony of a Timeout: Tip #2
There are times during a game where you are going to be down X number of points, with little time left and you will be in a timeout situation and your players are going to be looking to you for guidance as to how they can come back and win the game. What topics do you cover in those 30-90 seconds. Hopefully, you have practice these situations a number of times throughout the season so your players have some prior knowledge to go off of, but here are some questions to think about that you will probably need to cover in a timeout situation.
1. How much time is left on the clock and at what point do you need to start shooting 3’s to get back in the game? Obviously, this is going to depend on the current score, but if you are down 8-10 points and there is 2 minutes left, do your players clearly understand your offensive expectations of getting a quick 2 or at what point do they need to be looking for a 3?
2. When you are down 3-4 points with a couple of seconds left on the clock, do your players understand how to miss the second free throw, and what everyone’s responsibilities are on the miss in order to get the offensive rebound and another FG attempt to win or tie the game?
3. Do your players know at what point they need to start fouling in order to extend the game? Do your players know how to properly foul? Do you have a verbal and nonverbal signal?
4. Do your players clearly know your defensive objectives on defending delay game offenses? Do they know who the best free throw shooter is in order to deny him/her and who the worse free throw shooter is in order to foul him/her?
5. If you are able to get back in the game, do your players know whether they should push the ball in the final seconds and try and score before the defense gets set, or should they call a timeout?
Again, the true success of these situations is preparation in practice. This not only prepares your players for these situations, but also helps you as the coach in those situations as well. A few years ago, I took an Advanced Basketball Theory class with Don Meyer. One of the things that he did frequently was work on a special situation at a random time during practice. For example, after or during a drill, you as the coach could call “timeout,” have half of your players go to one coach, and the rest go to another coach where you work on a time and score situation. You can make it a 30 second timeout or a 60 second timeout. The 2 teams would then go and execute the discussed game plan. This simulates stress and spontaneity to your players. This does require some planning with the coaching staff in order for all the coaches to be clear as to what the situation is and what the expectations are.
1. How much time is left on the clock and at what point do you need to start shooting 3’s to get back in the game? Obviously, this is going to depend on the current score, but if you are down 8-10 points and there is 2 minutes left, do your players clearly understand your offensive expectations of getting a quick 2 or at what point do they need to be looking for a 3?
2. When you are down 3-4 points with a couple of seconds left on the clock, do your players understand how to miss the second free throw, and what everyone’s responsibilities are on the miss in order to get the offensive rebound and another FG attempt to win or tie the game?
3. Do your players know at what point they need to start fouling in order to extend the game? Do your players know how to properly foul? Do you have a verbal and nonverbal signal?
4. Do your players clearly know your defensive objectives on defending delay game offenses? Do they know who the best free throw shooter is in order to deny him/her and who the worse free throw shooter is in order to foul him/her?
5. If you are able to get back in the game, do your players know whether they should push the ball in the final seconds and try and score before the defense gets set, or should they call a timeout?
Again, the true success of these situations is preparation in practice. This not only prepares your players for these situations, but also helps you as the coach in those situations as well. A few years ago, I took an Advanced Basketball Theory class with Don Meyer. One of the things that he did frequently was work on a special situation at a random time during practice. For example, after or during a drill, you as the coach could call “timeout,” have half of your players go to one coach, and the rest go to another coach where you work on a time and score situation. You can make it a 30 second timeout or a 60 second timeout. The 2 teams would then go and execute the discussed game plan. This simulates stress and spontaneity to your players. This does require some planning with the coaching staff in order for all the coaches to be clear as to what the situation is and what the expectations are.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Parent Meetings
As we prepare our teams to get ready for the upcoming season, there are number of things to do on our "to-do" lists. One item that we have every year is parent meetings. This is extremely beneficial to communicate expectations of coaches, parents and players. Many potential problems can be put to rest right away before the season starts if appropriately presented at the parent meeting.
Here is a list of items that we have gone through in the past with our parents.
1. Reading of Parent Pack
2. Introductions of coaching staff.
3. Being a part of the Titans Girls Basketball Program
4. Physicals
5. Activities Handbook
6. Once the season begins, you may not be a part of another basketball team, such as Y ball or Traveling Teams.
7. Coaching philosophy and expectations for the year
8. Practice attendance and expectations (excused and unexcused absences), and protocol if player is going to miss practice
9. Playing time
10. Academic expectations
11. Appropriate way to handle conflicts
12. Seniors last game (how that will go and what to expect)
13. Question and answer session
It is definitely not going to fix every problem, but it does help communicate expectations.
Here is a list of items that we have gone through in the past with our parents.
1. Reading of Parent Pack
2. Introductions of coaching staff.
3. Being a part of the Titans Girls Basketball Program
4. Physicals
5. Activities Handbook
6. Once the season begins, you may not be a part of another basketball team, such as Y ball or Traveling Teams.
7. Coaching philosophy and expectations for the year
8. Practice attendance and expectations (excused and unexcused absences), and protocol if player is going to miss practice
9. Playing time
10. Academic expectations
11. Appropriate way to handle conflicts
12. Seniors last game (how that will go and what to expect)
13. Question and answer session
It is definitely not going to fix every problem, but it does help communicate expectations.
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