𝘾𝙊𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝙆

Family Man - Head 🏀 Coach Estacada HS - Texas A&M Fanatic (Class of '10)

[Coach Winegar @CoachWinegar]

Tweets like this are a problem in today’s privatized youth sports world.

Everyone is COMPETING for kids, rather than COOPERATING for the betterment of kids.

Skills coach + strength coach + hs coach + hs strength coach all need to aligned if we truly care about the athlete’s development.

It’s a confusing enough time for hs athletes, they don’t need the people in their life competing for their time and bashing their other mentors.

Many HS coaches are just as bad, immediately demonizing any private training.

There are great private coaches, great hs coaches, and there are bad ones on both sides too.

But we’d all be better at our jobs if
removed egos and put the athlete firsts.

[𝘾𝙊𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝙆 @CoachTLMack]

Lived in North Texas for many years. I’ll have to disagree with you. It’s not comparable to Minnesota or something way north but definitely cold, windy, and nasty enough for no one to enjoy the outdoors and never open the windows. You have to run either the heater or the A/C 350 days a year.

[𝘾𝙊𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝙆 @CoachTLMack]

@BlackLabelAdvsr @pau40314 But then you have to live in Sherman, TX. Too hot in the summer. Too cold in the winter. Windy all the time. Hail storms. Tornadoes. Mosquitoes, flys, June bugs, cicadas, ants, bugs galore. It’s gross there. It’s like living in an armpit full of boomers.

[SoL in the Wild @SoLInTheWild]

A student-centered piece of advice about inquiry-based learning: the knowledge you spent a few days building in students by having them read an article or chapter before sending them off on a two-week role-play inquiry project, you know the one where they pretend to be a biologist, historian, or geographer, is nowhere near enough.

We are constantly trivializing expert-level knowledge by assuming students can meaningfully engage in inquiry after only brief exposure to content and believing they will simply pick up the rest along the way. Experts can do that. Novices cannot. A few days spent reading an article or chapter does not provide enough background knowledge for students to authentically think and work like a economist or chemist.

Here’s what you should do instead: spend those two weeks building far more knowledge. Give students repeated exposure to the concepts, vocabulary, examples, explanations, and models within the discipline.

Two weeks spent building accessible knowledge in long-term memory through explicit instruction will help students think and inquire more like a mathematician, poet, or engineer than two weeks spent pretending to be one ever will.

[𝘾𝙊𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝙆 @CoachTLMack]

@JaredDHardin 💯

I was just telling someone how much better Florida is for beach trips than anything California has to offer.

[Derek Fey @fey_derek]

I’ll probably catch flack for this but here goes…
The NCAA live period means nothing for the vast majority of basketball players.
There’s really only a few select players that could benefit from it.
Go to prom
Go on that family vacation.
Go home and chill.
Go to church.
RELAX

[𝘾𝙊𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝙆 @CoachTLMack]

@503DOLLARFIVE @johnrackham82 Maybe you should care about the next few generations? We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

[𝘾𝙊𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝙆 @CoachTLMack]

@AndrewDBailey Shoot play straight up to 7 or 9. Get those games moving! Get to that “game point” effort a lot faster.

[𝘾𝙊𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝙆 @CoachTLMack]

A lot of times (not always) “adjusting to your personnel” is code word for no vertical alignment in your program and a lack of intentional player development. If you want to primarily play in a drive kick swing conceptual offense, you can grow those players from the start.

Also, your “system” should be dynamic enough to take advantage of strengths from day one.

Last hot take on this topic is, if you don’t have players that can run, dribble, shoot, or guard the basketball, you aren’t going to be very good anyway, so stick to your development plan and keep the game fun, fast, and free.

[𝘾𝙊𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝙆 @CoachTLMack]

@TeachHoopsBBall I’m a definite yes. We have 35 and it is too long.

[𝘾𝙊𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝙆 @CoachTLMack]

@MrZachG They will just tell you that test scores are not a valuable indicator of student achievement.

[𝘾𝙊𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝙆 @CoachTLMack]

We left Mansfield after 3 years and moved to semi-rural Oregon. I feel like Dallas is just brutal. Hotter than here the summer, colder in the winter, bugs/insects everywhere all the time, hail storms destroy everything, weather in general is just violent and unstable. Property tax is out of control and everything is highways and strip malls.

[𝘾𝙊𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝙆 @CoachTLMack]

@yinzer_g Oregon loves baseball. They are prepared to build a waterfront entertainment complex. I think PDX would be wildly successful.

[𝘾𝙊𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝙆 @CoachTLMack]

@ThrillaRilla369 Just add butter and sugar.

[Estacada Boys Basketball @EstacadaHoops]

2 openings on staff. Looking for best fit. Apply here: https://t.co/Vvqr5LzKaj

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

A reminder from Atomic Habits by James Clear:

[𝘾𝙊𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝙆 @CoachTLMack]

@xbrandonAHx @HSTopRecruiting I don’t think Stokes was trash but a closer look at those numbers will show leak out dunks and easy layups. He really did not stand out to me as an overall number 1. He will be interesting to follow.

[𝘾𝙊𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝙆 @CoachTLMack]

@kalanwhitchens @HSTopRecruiting Toure for sure. Lots to like from him.

[John Fanta @John_Fanta]

Eight Nike Hoop Summit takeaways:

• Holy smokes, Miles Sadler. He is an electric factory. How was he not a McDonald’s AA? What a get by Ross Hodge.

• Caleb Holt will crush it at Arizona and at the next level.

• Lucas Morillo is a GREAT fit for Illinois.

• Jordan Smith Jr./Abdou Toure with Coach Cal? Fun!

• Brandon McCoy is cold blooded and defended at a high level as well. Dusty May keeps on winning.

• Caleb Gaskins’ versatility helped a lot for USA win the game. Jai Lucas hiring Andrew Moran = smart. Miami is rising.

• Fascinated to see where Miikka Muurinen lands. So much talent/upside and the bidding war will be entertaining.

• USA Basketball and Nike just get it. The Hoop Summit is so much more than just an All Star Game. It’s an event. The USA vs. The World setup always delivers. Really fun to be in Portland!