Nothing great in life comes easy, and nothing that comes easy is great. Some of our happiest moments come from stepping out of our comfort zone and striving for greatness.
Four ways to be a better teammate in games:
1. Trust your teammates
2. Support your teammates
3. Lead and motivate your teammates
4. Communicate with your teammates
How can you be the best teammate for your team?
1. Be on time
2. Be prepared
3. Be coachable
4. Be committed
5. Accept your role
6. Excel in your role
7. Bring positive energy
8. Have a good attitude
9. Encourage your teammates
The Coach’s Spouse You Don’t See.
Late nights.
Missed dinners.
Emotional seasons.
They don’t get the wins.
They feel the losses.
Every great coach has someone sacrificing with them.
We don’t talk about that enough.
Being strong in gaps is the #1 most important skill as a driver in high school and college basketball ❗️
Using a quick second dribble allows for bumps against your primary defender and cleaner gathers through the gap defender 🔑
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Save these 6 ball handling drills for your next workout 💯
I always try to incorporate movement based ball handling warmups since that's what is most transferrable to the game
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"The way you build a championship team is you build it by what you do every day.
If you want to be a championship product, it's a daily consistent process.
And it's difficult.
It's difficult to convince yourself every single day to come in here with the same mentality."
SSG Sunday: Cone Tap 1v1 Finishing
The defender tosses the ball to the driver then touches either cone before defending the ballhandler’s drive. Adjust the cones for bigger or smaller advantage. Great for even young kids.
Skill Development: 1 on 1 is a part of almost every skill workout in the off season. Lots of ways to emphasize and grow in different ways. Here are two we used last week. Again, great leadership & creativity by @sohmatsuura#GrowOurGame#Getbetter
John Wooden shares a mindset that we all need to adopt every day.
"Yesterday is gone. That'll never change. Tomorrow is yet to be."
"How can you affect tomorrow? By today. That's the only possible way."
"I tried to get each player to make each day his masterpiece."
Don't get caught up in the past or worry about the future - make today your masterpiece.
Then he shared advice he gave to certain players:
"You've gotta put the past out. Good or bad, it's past - it'll never change. The only way you can affect the future is what you do today."
You can't change yesterday. You can't control tomorrow. You only have today.
Then he recited a poem by Vivian Larimore that he loved:
"I've shut the door on yesterday, its sorrows and mistakes. I've locked within its gloomy walls past failures and heartaches."
"And now I throw the key away to seek another room and furnish it with hopes and smiles and every springtime bloom."
"I've shut the door on yesterday and thrown the key away. Tomorrow holds no fears for me, for I have found today."
"Today is the day that counts. It's today."
The present moment is the only place where you can truly make a difference.
Don't carry yesterday's failures or worry about the unknown.
Focus on what you can control.