Coach Dylan Drake Longley

Marshalltown Community College Head Women’s Basketball Coach 🏀 @MCCTigers_WBB “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.” -Jimmy V-

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

One of the most important jobs of a coach today isn’t just teaching skills.

It’s telling the truth.

Truth about effort.
Truth about attitude.
Truth about roles.

Kids don’t need less honesty.

They need more adults willing to lead with it.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Overprotected kids become unprepared adults.

Dawn Staley nailed it.🔥

You can’t shelter your child from every hard moment and then expect them to handle adversity when it counts.

Hard is the lesson.

What’s one hard lesson sports taught you that helped later in life? 👇

[MCC Tiger Women's Basketball @MCCTigers_WBB]

Marshalltown Community College🟡⚪️
- NJCAA D2 WBB
- Great facilities
-Great Community support!
- 24 Hours Gym Access
- Weight Room/ Indoor track right above gym!
- Fast and Fun style of play
-Coaches who Prioritize on YOUR development
- New Apartment Style Dorms!

[Coach Dylan Drake Longley @CoachDLongley]

@MCCTigers_WBB @CkKandola Can’t wait to get to work with this young lady! Incredible person and comes from an incredible family! She’s going to achieve great things as a Tiger!

[MCC Tiger Women's Basketball @MCCTigers_WBB]

Going to start posting our new commitments on this account along with our returners!
Please welcome Chahatpreet “CK” Kandola to Marshalltown CC Women’s Basketball.
#8 | Guard
📍 Auburn, WA
Tough. Skilled. Competitive.
More commitment post coming soon!!
@CkKandola

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

That jersey was worn before you.
It’ll be worn after you.

Your only job?

Make the next person proud to put it on.

[Marsha Frese @CoachFrese]

Glue players will always find a role on a team. Kids that play hard, set great screens, share the ball, run the floor hard, work to defend & rebound. TALK! Not a glamorous job but a much needed role.

[Coach the Coaches @WinningCoaches]

Sometimes toughness looks like playing hard for 40 minutes, but sometimes toughness looks like cheering your teammates on from the bench.

In any circumstance, toughness is an option.

Toughness is about the effort, not the role.

~ via @BallisPsych

[Chris Oliver @BBallImmersion]

Parents and players often come in convinced they know best.

But the reality is they’ve rarely studied coaching, dug into the analytics, grasped team dynamics, or put in the years of deliberate practice it takes to truly understand the game.

Do you agree?

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

One of the hardest parts of coaching:

Letting go of who you want a player to be and coaching who they actually are.

Great coaches adjust.

Kudos to Chris Finch for saying it out loud.

[Drew Maddux @DrewMaddux]

As a leader or coach...Your culture is a combination of what create and what you allow! 💯

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Minnesota Timberwolves' Coach Chris Finch on the "Boogeyman" Mentality, the stories we tell ourselves, and taking things too seriously as a form of self motivation:

⛽️ Take it personal, but aim it inward. When you feel disrespected, overlooked, or challenged, don’t leak that energy outward, channel it into preparation, discipline, and standards that are designed to make your opponent's life hell between the lines. Personal isn’t always pettiness, it can be fuel too.

📚 The story you tell yourself becomes the standard you live up to. If your inner narrative is soft, your habits will be too. But when you turn that story into a rallying cry like the @Timberwolves did with "THEY CHOSE US!", it sharpens your collective focus and gives your effort meaning. Did the Nuggets really choose them? Maybe, maybe not. Reality isn't relevant in the story you tell yourself to get your motor going. Good leaders don’t wait for motivation, they author it.

🧟‍♂️ Become the horror movie opponent no one forgets. That reminder should come not through noise, but through presence, relentless effort, physicality, and consistency that shows up every rep. The “boogeyman” isn’t a persona, it’s a pattern of habits your team displays. When you do the hard things over and over, your reputation starts speaking before you ever do.

Motivation isn’t about what’s true necessarily, it’s about what you’re willing to believe strongly enough to act on relentlessly, until your habits turn that story into something real your opponent has to face.

[Top 1% Men @dtop1percentmen]

Everybody wants the spotlight, but not everybody can handle the grind behind it.

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Absolute gold from Tom Izzo

“It’s such a phony world right now and everyone tells everybody how good they are. Nobody tells anyone they need to get better”

(Via @TheCoachJournal 🎥)

[Manly Mentor @manly_mentor]

Men,
You need to hear this ‼️‼️

[Hustlerz Hub @HustlerzHub]

Three things you need to stop doing:

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Kobe Bryant 🔥

“Confidence comes from preparation.”

No shortcuts.
No speeches.

Just reps.

[AirJordans23 @AirJordans2323]

This is why Michael Jordan didn't lose 3 games in a row from November 1990 to June 1998.

Unless he was hurt, he practiced all out just like he played in games.

MJ didn't screw around like these bozos do in practice today.

@Jumpman23🐐
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

PJ Fleck 🔥

“Failing is growth. Failure is quit.”

“The hard part of being the standard is you are the standard.”

“Joy is never letting circumstances dictate your behavior.”

100% coaching gold.

Bookmark and share. 🔖

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

This speech will change your life: