Dom McBride

Assistant Basketball Coach 🏀 | DU WBB | “The Highest Human Act is to Inspire” - Nipsey Hussle | #TMC 🏁

[Dom McBride @CoachDom989]

@CoachRobMcD Congrats Coach! Happy for you and do work!

[Dom McBride @CoachDom989]

🚨 Elite Camp is right around the corner and the opportunity to showcase your skill set in front of our staff is only a click away!

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[Nick Jones @CoachJonesACS]

Everybody wants hard coaching until you’re up 30 still coaching about defending the ball, being in gaps, helping the helper, rebounding tough, running in transition and making sound decisions with the ball.

Habits don’t become nor stay habits if they aren’t consistently reinforced. The process leads to excellence not results.

[Tom Crean @TomCrean]

The GAP between
Playing WITH each other

Versus

Playing FOR each other.

Is the GAP between
Winning Games

Verses

Playing for Championships.

[Marsha Frese @CoachFrese]

Navigating ball screens & keeping quicker perimeter players in front of you is a skill not worked on enough. At the collegiate level, you are who you can guard.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Kelvin Sampson explains what great coaching looks like and why coaching is really teaching.

"What is it that you learned new today? Write it down so you don't forget it."

"Make a list of the things you learned. Then go find an assistant coach tomorrow and say, 'Here's the things I learned today. Can you show me what coach meant with video?'"

Learn how your players best learn and meet them where they are.

"Coach's job is to figure out who learns at what rate. There's nothing wrong with any rate they learn."

Then he dropped the line every coach needs to hear:
"Nothing's ever been learned until it's been taught. And nothing's ever been taught until it's been learned."

"Our job is not coaching. You coach during a game. But in practice every day, you're a teacher."

"Our job is to teach these kids to the best of our abilities and help them learn."

This is what great coaching looks like.

The best coaches are teachers first.
(🎥 @ChrisYBaldwin)

[Coach Tucker @CoachTucker76]

Them doors are opening...Just Be Ready when opportunity knocks‼️

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

The most undercoached skill in your program?

Effort.

TJ McConnell said it best:

“I genuinely believe that playing hard is a skill, because if it wasn’t, everyone would do it.”

You can’t just demand it.
You have to develop it. https://t.co/8HikuTlZPU

[Davenport Women's Basketball @DU_WBB]

🚨🚨Save the DATE and Mark your Calendars!!

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[Michael Stroup 🏴‍☠️🌊 @CoachStroup]

Everybody wants discipline… until discipline gets loud.
Everybody wants toughness… until toughness gets uncomfortable.

Hard coaching isn’t abuse.
Hard coaching is correction.
Hard coaching is standards.
Hard coaching is loving a kid enough not to let him stay average.

If a coach is demanding effort, detail, toughness, and accountability bothers you… that probably says more about today’s culture than it does the coach.

[LeVelle Moton @LeVelleMoton]

“Disrespect can Permanently shut doors that Apologies can’t Reopen”…..💯💯 #GBMS #MotonvationalMonday

[GymRat Basketball | Trey Winkler @grbball_1]

Confidence comes from work.

If you only touch a basketball in November, or once a week, your confidence isn’t real. It’s fragile. It can be taken by a coach, a crowd, or a better opponent in seconds.

Real confidence shows up when you’ve put in the work daily. When you’ve already seen it, felt it, and done it over and over.

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

This is such a powerful quote from Hornets Head Coach, Charles Lee

“Anybody that's gonna push you loves you more than anybody that's gonna let you stay the same."

[Coach Yo @YolettMcCuin]

LOUDER

[Los Angeles Lakers @Lakers]

10 years ago today, Kobe scored 60 in his last game 💜💛

[Central Michigan WBB @CMUWBBall]

Welcome home, Nevaeh! 🏠

#FireUpChips🔥⬆️🏀 | #WeAre1

[Alan Stein, Jr. @AlanSteinJr]

Two coaches.
Two completely different styles.
One championship stage.

Dan Hurley and Dusty May couldn’t appear more different.

Hurley is loud, fiery, and unapologetically intense. He coaches with passion on full display—every possession, every call, every moment.

May is calm, measured, and composed. He leads with poise—steady, deliberate, and rarely rattled.

One is expressive and animated.
The other is reserved and calculated.

And yet… both are elite.

Both are brilliant tacticians.
Both are masterful recruiters.
Both have built championship cultures.
And most importantly—both LOVE their players… and their players love them right back.

That’s the lesson.

There is no ONE way to lead.

Not in basketball.
Not in business.
Not in life.

Leadership isn’t about copying someone else’s style. It’s about owning your style.

Your personality.
Your strengths.
Your voice.

Because authenticity builds trust.
And trust builds teams that win.

Don’t try to lead like Hurley.
Don’t try to lead like May.

Lead like you.

[Wallo267 @Wallo267]

Dedication transforms pressure into preparation.

[Paul Biancardi @PaulBiancardi]

Footwork is the foundation of everything. If you want an edge in coaching, incorporate footwork into everything you teach. #MondayWithMajerus

[Coach Rebecca 🏀🏘 📕 @Rebecca30H]

“Rebounding isn’t a skill, it’s a decision!” - Dawn Staley