Help your basketball players become better leaders on and off the court. Great leadership will equal great success!
From her book, Basketball for Women, Nancy Lieberman shares her 10 steps to stardom. As she says, these steps can help you achieve and handle the success that will come with your hard work and dedication. Ten Steps to Basketball Stardom Competitive Greatness: Includes patience, your mental attitude, faith, determination, and fight. Coachability: Be hardworking,...
I am sure that most of you watched the BCS Championship game a few weeks ago in which Alabama manhandled Notre Dame in extraordinary fashion. Being from Alabama, I am blasted with Alabama football for most of the year which is tough being a basketball guy and an Auburn fan to boot. But I think,...
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. (Larry Bird) When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. (Ed Macauley) The mindset of an elite team, and...
Use this list of 12 team covenants with your basketball team to help instill values such as togetherness, selflessness, hard work, and more that will lead to a winning team. We will accomplish what we do TOGETHER. We share our success and we never let any one of us fail alone. We are fully grown...
You really dont know how good you can be. Im sure this phrase has been echoed by coaches all across the state at some point in the season. Its a phrase that alludes to the player in your program that has all the potential in the world, but cant seem to see it within themselves....
As our recruiting coordinator for the last two years Ive often had coaches, players, and parents ask me about the best way to get noticed and begin the recruiting process. The obvious answer is to be able to play but assuming you have that part covered, here are 6 little things that can go...
Effective communication is critical in building a great basketball program and it begins from the ground up! Young players MUST learn how to communicate; whether it is with their parents, teachers, siblings, coaches or teammates. Communication is the glue that holds most relationships and teams together. When I first started coaching, I found myself at...
This list of 10 Commandments for Practice makes for a great handout or addition to your player handbooks. Use it as-is or tweak it to fit your philosophies. THOU SHALT PRACTICE HARD we will come each day with energy and enthusiasm we will put supreme effort into every drill because we know that the habit...
There are many paths you can take to achieve success as either a basketball coach or player. No one path is necessarily the best as there are many twists and turns along the journey to success. The following 5 principles, however, can guide you to greater success on the basketball court. If these 5 principles...
A captain is a person chosen to represent and lead the team. It is an honor and responsibility that should not be taken lightly. A captain that violates the responsibility may lose the honor. The following list will take you through the qualifications, responsibilities, and other ideas that will help build great team captains. Qualifications...