Cornel Merricks

Assistant Men’s 🏀Coach/Recruiting Coordinator for PSU Abington D3| Health/PE Teacher

[Cornel Merricks @CoachMerricks]

@LoyolaChicago runs a great offense, floor spaced, ball movement and unselfish play. They also provide great help defense! #NCAATournament #MarchMadness

[Cornel Merricks @CoachMerricks]

@coachboc Wow!! This is amazing!! So dope!! Let’s go J Boc!!

[Cornel Merricks @CoachMerricks]

Preseason practices! #CollegeBasketball

[Jamy Bechler @CoachBechler]

Talent is not enough to be good. It is just a starting point. Actually being good requires you to do the little things. Success is a choice but so is failure.

[Michael Lynch @CoachLynch_21]

Installing your Offense

If you are debating how you will install your offense next season here is a blueprint.

Start with the most important element & build from there.

[Jamy Bechler @CoachBechler]

COACHES: Your job is not to mess with your player's heads to make them tough. Your job is to love them and speak life into them to make them strong.

~ Jon Gordon

[Ryan Pannone @RyanPannone]

Add this lob play to your playbook that Coach Oded Kattash ran with Panathinaikos from baseline out of bounds.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

What does your Body Language say about you?

According to Psychology Today...

- 55% of communication is body language.
- 38% is tone of voice.
- 7% is spoken words.

Coaching and Leadership is about communication.

How we say things matters.

[Sean Billerman @sbill30]

Spain - Finland Action, Floppy

[Bryce Haase @Bryce_Haase8]

Poland NT | Out Cross Shuffle

[Cornel Merricks @CoachMerricks]

Recruiting all weekend!! Very productive weekend…..

Summer League team played well and just won their game!

Life of a college basketball coach!

[Coach the Coaches @WinningCoaches]

Be Better. Be Different.

~ via @PhilBeckner

[Jamy Bechler @CoachBechler]

HUSTLE IS A TALENT

Hustle can be contagious. Be a spark plug. Create your own momentum. Supply the energy your team needs. Shots may or may not go in the basket, but hustle should never have an off-day.

📹 @PGCbasketball

[Chris Dorsey @CoachCDorsey]

Flow is created by the concepts you install.

ALWAYS be teaching…
1. Spacing
2. Pace
3. Angles

[William Payne @TweetsbyCoachP]

Conversation with a D2 Head Coach:

“I really like X player but he will not stop arguing with the refs. He does it every single time a call goes against him and I don’t have the time to correct that”.

Coaches will look for reasons to not recruit you as much as they look for reasons to recruit you.

[Matt Hackenberg @CoachHackGO]

Circle Motion: Constant movement, completely interchangable positions

[Jon Beck @CoachJonBeck]

As a coach, it’s wonderful to see athletes I’ve coached, trained or helped achieve success in sports or in life. Not because I helped them, but because I was fortunate enough to watch them grow, change, struggle, work, learn & achieve. Those are the things that make it worth it!

[Matt Hackenberg @CoachHackGO]

If you don't get the backdoor in the "5-Out Upscreen Continuity," you'll probably get this shot (from helping on the backdoor)

[Coach the Coaches @WinningCoaches]

GREAT TEAM CULTURES HAVE:

1-Selflessness
2-Agreed upon Values
3-All-in Commitment
4-Teachable Attitudes
5-Zero Entitlement
6-Intense Work-ethic
7-Common Respect
8-Great Communication
9-Unconditional Love

~via @TeachHoopsBBall