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| The Following is a collection of Forrest Gump quotes, with explanations about how you should apply them to coaching your basketball team. |
I’m not a smart man… but I know what love is.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking that your technical knowledge of the game is the only measuring stick of your coaching ability. There’s more to it than that. Your players need to know that your first priority is their best interests. How you demonstrate that you care will vary according to your personality and situation, but the bottom line is…intelligence isn’t everything. Coaching basketball is not a chess match. Those are people you’re leading. They won’t ‘run through walls’ for you until they know that you care.Stupid is as stupid does.
Judge your players based on what they show you…not on what other people say or on any preconceived notions about their ability, decision-making, or character.When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go… you know… I went.
Your job as coach is to “Give them what they need to know”, not to show them everything that you know. Be responsive to your team’s learning threshold. Adding plays and schemes progressively, as your players and team develop, is good coaching. Putting in 17 different time-and-score schemes with players who still have not learned how to set or use a screen is intellectual self-gratification.Momma always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.
If your players aren’t able to take what you give them and transfer it onto the floor, it’s time to consider how to change your teaching methods so that you are communicating in a way that players can understand. What you know is not nearly as important as your ability to get players to take what you know and do something productive with it.I gotta save Bubba!
Two Points: 1. One surefire way to get loyalty is to give it. If your players feel that, “we’re all in this together” – “we” in this context MUST include “YOU”, the coach - your players will usually be responsive to you, and loyal. This is an important element on teams with lesser talent – the ones that cause the coach to worry about “losing players” because there aren’t enough wins in a season to justify the coach’s demands. If your players know that you’re in it with them, they’ll play hard for you even if you’re losing. With that in place you can continue to teach and to push players beyond their comfort zones (which you have to be able to do if you’re coaching a mediocre team – if you don’t, the losing won’t ever stop). 2. The “bunker mentality” is an extremely powerful motivator, can help forge a team’s identity, and often leads a team to new heights. Example: Can you name the only team to rise to championship levels in the Jordan, Magic, & Bird era besides the Bulls, Lakers, and Celtics? The Bad Boys.Jenny taught me how to climb. And I taught her how to dangle.
You can learn just as much from your players as they can learn from you. My personal experience is that I never realize this until after the fact. But I always realize it, with every player and every team I coach.My Momma always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
Holding a grudge against a payer in your program is a waste of energy and does nothing to improve that player or your program. Try to ‘clear the slate’ every day with your players and team. If you had a horrible practice yesterday that ended with you kicking everybody out of the gym, put it behind you. You’ll save yourself a lot of needless grief and will usually be surprised to find that tomorrow isn’t nearly as bad as today. Your interactions with your team should be based on what they are doing right now. Practice this consistently and, over time, players will come to understand that you are criticizing their actions, rather than who they are as people.Momma always said, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
Every team has a different personality, set of strengths, and collective potential. Try to coach to your team’s strengths and work to identify weak spots – they will differ from team to team. Also, hold your team to a standard of playing to its maximum potential every day. Each team sets its own unique standard. Holding one team to a standard set by another group of players can be unrealistic and, in certain situations, unfair.That’s all I have to say about that.
No, seriously. That’s it. Enjoy HoopClinics! This post is an adaptation of a blog post by well-known blogger Brian Clark.Sample eBook
[private] I thought you might like to get a feel for the format of our eBooks. Here is the first 8 pages of the flex offense guide. Cheers. [/private]The HoopClinics Shop is Open
We had some early issues with the countdown timer switching over to the sales page. No worries…the problem is solved and HoopClinics is available to buy right now. If you had any trouble trying to get to the purchase page, just let me know Brian and I will work with you to get your bonuses - if the system ‘hiccup’ caused you to get to the purchase page late, we don’t want you to miss out on any of the bonuses that we promised you. You can go to the sales page hereClarification
[private] I really want to answer individual emails, but there have been too many this morning to have a realistic chance of answering everyone. One theme we’re hearing a lot…Ity seems we’ve given the impression that we’re selling a Subscription…NOT the case. This is a one-time purchase - with a L-O-T of value. You won’t lose film room access after the HoopClinics Course ends. The Film Room will Go public…the other way around. I hope that clarifies some of your questions! Josh Stinson [/private]Important Update!
[private] countdown page Hey Coach, HoopClinics is set to launch in just over 33 hours and we’ve got another development that was a tough decision for us to come to, but we think a very good one. Here’s the deal… Bottom Line - asking you to choose between the flex and 5 out complicates things - for buyers and for us. We will already have enough to do with the forum and providing a great experience for buyers to keep us busy over the next month without that headache. On top of that, as we’ve gotten to know some of you over the past month, several of you have told us that you would like to see ‘clinics’ on both the flex and the 5 out. So We’ve decided to include them both in the HoopClinics product. If your next question is what I think it is….No, we are not raising the price. If I were in your shoes, my next question would probably be, “They just want to sell as many copies as they possibly can”. If that’s what you were thinking…of course…we’d like to sell as many copies as we can. That does play a part, obviously. Another factor is…this is the first HoopClinic product. Since it wont be the last, it is important for us to build awareness. This is one way to do that. Lastly, we do want to show you that we appreciate your interest in HoopClinics. Your interest will be what allows us to develop into a presence in the coaching community. The best way to say thanks is to provide you with great value. What we do NOT want to do is undervalue what we think is a mountain of very high quality coaching material. If we kept the price at $53 for everything - 5 ebooks/books, 4+ hours of chalk talks, an audio recording, film room access, and forum access - we feel that’s what we would be doing. So…this HoopClinics release will be available for 3 weeks - until 4pm Eastern, 7pm Pacific on 9/24/2008. We want to regroup a bit and keep pouring energy in the the forums, filmrooms, interacting with coaches, etc. We will make HoopClinics available again, with improvement based on buyers’ suggestions (we’ll give free digital updates to all buyers for the life of HoopClinics). We don’t know for sure what the price will be, but we can almost guarantee that it will be higher than the current $53 price tag. countdown page Talk soon, Josh Stinson [/private]New F.A.Q. page is up and running
[private] I’ve added a F.A.Q. page under the “About Us” page menu on the top of the site. We’ve gotten a lot of questions in the past several days about what HoopClinics is. Those questions can be answered by scrolling through this blog, but we wanted to make it easier to access everything in one spot so we made this page. As always, your questions are welcome. Make a comment or shoot us an email - we’re doing our best to answer everyone’s questions about HoopClinccs now. We don’t want you to have to rely on the sales page to get a clear idea of exactly what HoopClinics is. The updated version of the 2-2-1 is almost ready! -Josh Stinson [/private]Press Release
[private] A press release has been posted in the in the “About Us” page menu. [/private]Coach Williams Steps Up His Game
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