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COACHING YOUR TEAM
- You only know what you truly believe in after a losing season. After a losing season, reflect on your own and only with people you trust.
- When coaching boys you must coach the athlete to reach the person, however, with girls, you must coach the person to reach the athlete.
- We use notes to teach:
- Academics
- Defense
- Motivation
- Offense
- Things we did well/didn’t do well today.
- Your players have to know what makes your program unique – not unique for the sake of being different but unique in terms of special. For us:
- Notebook
- Put up game
- Terminology
- Everyone teaches
- Rule for hiring coaching staff: when in doubt, keep looking.
- Is your staff on the same page? Give them a test…what 3 things are most important to our defense, etc? Answers have to be consistent.
- Coaching staffs have to bring positive mental energy every day.
- Let you kids know how many deflections they have during timeouts. We want them to know how hard they are playing.
- Don’t pass up a screening opportunity.
- You get ahead on offense and you come from behind on defense – Al McGuire.
- Look for better ways to make your point…use words to express concepts – terminology.
- Don’t let their sweat dry when making corrections in practice.
- You will not win many games with what you know…you will win games with what your players know. Our job as coaches is to make the complicated simple.
- When talent is equal, how do you win? Think this out for your system. We believe:
- Get more fast breaks
- More “shouldn’t get” points (BOB, SOB, FT Play)
- Get more offensive rebounds
- Shoot more FT’s
- Emphasize communication
- Implement echo calls during practice…players say the name of the next drill or activity. Works on communication skills that carry over in games.
- Randomly tell one player the next activity and make it their responsibility to get everyone where they need to be.
- Catch the non-talkers and correct immediately or they will NEVER talk in games.
- In practice give points during a scrimmage for doing the right thing.
- Allow your team a time out in practice. Why are coaches giving players 3-5 minutes for water breaks? We give 30 seconds or 90 seconds, trying to make things game like.
- In practice, offensive rebounds are always +2.
- Define roles and repeat them periodically: sustained repetition, you will know when they get it.
- Sell your team on how difficult it is for you to decide who your 6, 7 and 8 man are
- Ask your team to put down on paper how many minutes they should play.
- Every team has problems…championship teams figure out how to solve them.
- There is no room for negativity in our family and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. Rather, we choose to focus on our pursuit of excellence (ARETE).
- Players not in the game should interlock arms during timeouts.
- PG comes to the sideline for instruction during FT’s.
- People are so used to being average, when they do hard work, they think it’s special.
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