Jahaad Proctor

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[CoachBroker @CoachBroker]

I sat behind Chris Paul and watched him coach his son’s high school team. One of my friends always uses the appeal to authority fallacy to argue that professional coaches and players know far more than coaches like me. I listened to everything Chris Paul said during the game. It’s the same stuff. Sports are simple. No, I’m not saying Chris Paul doesn’t know more than me about basketball. But sports aren’t complicated. The real job is managing people and personalities.

[Izzie Begley @izbegley]

"Here's a sheet. Blank sheet. One through 15 rank your teammates."

In week one of summer workouts, #UVA Coach Roussell implemented a philosophy so he could better understand how each player views the group

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that’s teamwork."

Let that statement sink in

(Via @thewinningdiff1 🎥)

[m!ch | luv u cc ☁️ @clarkmode_]

Caitlin reposted a TikTok of Pat Summitt talking about the 3 things you can control every day ❤️‍🩹

[dank @cptdankkk]

Draymond Green says basketball is no longer a poor kid's game: “It's a rich kid's game”

“I didn't learn how to do a proper individual workout till I got to college. Growing up I'm going to hoop. Where's the nearest run. Drop me off, I'll play all day. That's what we did. We hooped all day. I think there's a huge benefit to that because you just learn to see the game”

“It's different when somebody just putting you in a position to tell you to do this move. How do you use your creativity? How do you learn if somebody just say do this? How do you know what your game is if you never tap into it and just figure it out”

“I think there's a time and place for a trainer and I think with where the game has gone, you need those resources in order to be successful”

“I feel like basketball used to be a poor man's game. Poor kids played it. We were poor. We had nothing and it was our way out. Basketball is not a poor kid's game no more. Basketball is a rich kid game”

“The days of seeing LeBron James from Akron, Ohio, from a single mom, those days are numbered. Because if you don't have the resources these days, you can't make it. But that’s also why you don't see as great basketball as you did before, because there's no imagination”

“Everybody's doing the same thing, playing the same way. I think a lot of that is due sometimes to having trainers. You just become a carbon copy of somebody else the trainer created”

[ﾋﾟﾋﾟﾋﾟﾃﾞﾑ @eiennnishite]

これ今腰痛過ぎてもう薬も効かないから泣く泣くやったらめちゃ効いた、オオオオオォォォオン

[solange stan account @RexxLifeRaj]

michael beasley said “we judge people’s decisions without knowing their choices..” and it’s been on my mind ever since..

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Cori Close (@CoachCoriClose) shares a must-listen message on what it takes to be special.

"Do you want special? Then you better get used to hard."

"Tell me one person in this life, in any area of life, that did something special that didn't embrace hard. That didn't embrace the adversity."

Success is earned in the struggle.

"It's the people who embrace hard. Perseverance. All of those things that need to happen."

Then she got honest about her own leadership:
"Get ready to push that. Get ready to take that on for your players first so that they can see the role modeling of someone who faces hard, who embraces hard."

Leaders go first.

You can't ask your team to embrace hard if you're not willing to do it yourself.

You have to be willing to embrace adversity.

Adversity isn't a roadblock - it's the path.
(🎥 USA Basketball)

[Brian Kight @BrianKight]

The more disciplined you get, the less normal you seem. Good.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

JJ Redick and LeBron James break down what it really means to love the game

JJ Redick said, "You hear guys all the time: 'I just wanna play. I just wanna play.'"

"Okay. Do you wanna do all the things that are necessary that lead up to playing the actual game?"

Loving the game is easy, but loving the process is rare.

Everyone loves the outcome, but very few people are willing to do what it takes consistently.

LeBron James said, "The guys that say 'I just wanna play'—their career won't be long. 'Cause they're not gonna put in all the other intricate parts of what it takes to get to that point. It's not gonna last that long."

The discipline when no one's watching...That's what it actually means to love the game.

You only last if you love everything it takes to compete.
(🎥 Mind The Game)

[Daniel Donabedian @danield1214]

Joe Mazzulla explained why he often credits others rather than himself. Worth a listen:

“I think being a D1 basketball player, you grow up with this sense of entitlement, as if the whole world revolves around you. And…if I wanted to be a better husband, a better father, a better coach, I had to get rid of that type of entitlement.”

Q @JackSimoneNBA

[WNBA @WNBA]

With the 1st pick of the WNBA Draft, the @DallasWings select Azzi Fudd!

2026 #WNBADraft presented by State Street Investment Management SPY live on ESPN!

[BBALLBREAKDOWN @bballbreakdown]

What Coach Hurley describes in this clip is spot on. Remember: intensity and passion is essential, anger and disgust is not. And there's leeway in practice, contrasted to the games where the goal of the coach is to get his players to play as well as they possibly can.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Dan Hurley on the two personas every head coach must master:

The Jockey 🏇, and the Corner Man. 🥊

In practice — you are the jockey. You push. You challenge. You demand more than they think they have. You stretch them past comfort so execution becomes inevitable.

On game night — you become the corner man. You steady. You simplify. You remind them who they are. Confidence replaces correction.

Preparation is where you build them.
Performance is where you believe in them.

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Cori Close is special

Watching her attention to detail in practice is such a treat

(Via @dj_eidson 🎥)

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

“I don’t complain about playing time.
My job is to play so well that the coach can’t sit me. If I wasn't going to make it - it wasn't going to be because my lack of attitude, my habits, and my energy.” - Shane Battier

(Via @thewinningdiff1 🎥)

[Michael Swain @MSwain247]

Hurley: "I'm recruiting offensive players that are tough, that will be willing to defend for you. I'm no longer going off defensive, hard-playing guys that we're going to have to try to teach them to play great offense."

Auriemma: "That's an impossible teach. I've tried it."

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

The best competitors don't rise to the occasion.

They've already been there.

Cori Close talks about the lion mindset. 🔥
When night comes, the lion has to hunt.

Watch. Share. Bookmark.

[The FOOTPRINTZ GROUP @FootprintzGroup]

Not concerned with Hurley more concerned with UCONN’s warm up routine…

Old enough to remember when so called “celebrity trainers” and basketball “influencers” told this app that the drills in the video were pointless and passé…

s/o to UCONN for stressing the basics!