Winnetka Bullets Basketball
These are some of my favorite aphorisms. I have given credit where I was able to. If you have any to add, or know who I should attribute any of these to, feel free to comment below. I am far from perfect, but I work to have these thoughts guide my actions.
There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful.
To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.
Don’t wrestle with pigs. You both get mud on you and the pig likes it.
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person’s brow.
Coaches who run the flex offense here is a good list to consider.
Advantages of Running the Flex Offense
1. Can not double the point guard
2. 15 ft jump shot is the worst shot out of the offense
3. Advantages of motion with structure
4. Need only one pass to change sides of the floor
5. Teaches discipline and ball control
6. Players like it
7. Good to isolate player on block
8. Difficult to defend
9. Difficult to pressure the offense
10. Good if you have 5 average size players with equal skill
Disadvantages of Running the Flex Offense
1. Not geared to your best player
2. Takes away penetration
3. If you can't get it inside, it becomes a jump shot offense
4. Often the shot will go up with your key rebounders away from the basket
1. Don’t play hard: You can have the most talented team in the world, you can have the most intelligent team in the world, but if your team doesn’t play hard, there is no chance that they will be successful over the course of time. You must, before all else, establish and demand that your players play hard. It must be your identity.
"EGO...Is the Problem with Coaches" By Duane Silver *
I am going to make some of you mad today so don't let it
hurt your feelings.I believe this is the only way to make
you a better coach. I want you to be open to learning! If
we want the kids to be coachable we need to coachable
ourselves.
The following list is a page from my planner that I read a couple of times a month to try to keep myself focused and to stay true to what I believe. I put them together from various sources and from trying to think about and express in writing what I believe about a basketball program. I also used them for interviews for jobs and to share with assistant coaches or potential assistants that I was interviewing. If nothing else, I hope it gives you an idea to start your own list.
1. The program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond basketball.
This was written and sent out by Coach Duane Silver. If you haven’t seen it, definitely take a look. If you have seen it, I think it is worth reading more than once!
“50 LEADERSHIP THOUGHTS”
BY DUANE SILVER
1. Most coaches (most people) are not leaders. You see a leader about as often as you see and eagle. You need to read books on leadership to get better at it. There are born leaders and made leaders, you will need to figure out which one you are.
2. Your voice has to have POWER in it to show the kids you mean business.
If you are interested, you can click the link to read excerpts of the book on Amazon: A Season With Coach Dick Bennett
We Must OUTLAST the offense on every possession! Great defense takes consistent effort and commitment to excellence, every second of every practice and every game. It is not good enough to just go through the motions, to give the impression that you are trying, that you care. You must take PRIDE in your defense, in your effort, and be committed to OUTLASTING your opponent. You have to believe that! Anything less gives our opponents the edge. Gentlemen, we must OUTLAST the offense on every possession. That must be our foundation.
By adam.warner - Last updated: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Don Meyer finds himself in an unfamiliar territory these days. After 38 seasons and 923 wins, the winningest men’s basketball coach in college history is now retired from the game and spends his time working as a professor, speaker and author. In the first edition of Coaches Corner, Championship Productions editor Adam Warner sits down with the coaching legend and learns about Meyer’s life after retirement, his coaching philosophy, helpful advice for coaches and players, and what exactly he wants people to remember most about his truly remarkable career.
You’re now retired from coaching, what’s the feeling like being away from the bench?
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance
This comes from Kevin Eastman, courtesy of Mike Neighbors and his Xavier Women's Basketball newsletter:
1) It's not YOUR team...it is the head coaches
2) Add value
3) Enforce the culture and confront those not living up to standards of the program
4) Give solutions to problems you see
5) Have Positive body language
6) Get players OFF the fence
7) Bring energy/enthusiasm
8) Be ready to speak when the head coach needs you and your input
9) Emotion vs. Evaluation
10) Read your head coach
BE THERE WHEN PLAYERS NEED YOU MOST
Phil Beckner, Weber State University Assistant Coach
This is the first part of three parts of this project. I will be posting points 38-100 over the next few weeks.
Coaching:
1) NEVER-EVER forget who has been a positive influence on you, and helped you get to where you are today…continue to thank them, and then DO THE SAME FOR SOMEONE ELSE!
2) BE DETAILED!…with everything!
3) “Don’t coach for the name on your business card”-Larry Shyatt, coach for your team, players, and head coach
Hall of Fame Coach Leon Barmore had the followng team defensive
goals when he was winning championships with the Louisiana Tech
women:
GOALS ON BALL SIDE
1. Pressure the ball
2. Stop the penetrating pass.
3. Stop the penetrating move.
4. Jump inside to help.
GOALS ON HELP SIDE
1. Stay in passing lanes.
2. Stop penetrating move.
3. Stop man from flashing to the ball.
4. Stop ball reversal - never allow 2nd pass on perimeter.
Ball side defense makes us tough. Help side Defense makes us WINNERS!
NOT STAYING IN PROPER STANCE IS THE NUMBER ONE
PROBLEM ON DEFENSE.
Paul Hewitt of Georgia Tech..."Positioning for Post Players"
1. Always be above the block.
2. Wide base, elbows up, knees flexed.
3. Give target for pass.
4. Always receive pass with both hands.
5. Be active with the feet in order to maintain position on defensive
player by using the buttocks.
6. Adjust to the defender:
a. If guarded behind:
1. Keep feet wide and try to keep contact with defender.
2. Elbows should be up shoulder heighth.
3. Knees flexed.
4. Present a target.
5. Move toward the pass slightly.
b. If fronted:
1. Turn sideways to interact the defense at a 90 degree angle.
2. Press against the buttocks with your hip and thigh closest
to defender to move player off lane.
3. Use forearm closest to hold off defense.
4. Ask with opposite arm extended.
5. Move toward the ball on pass. Use your body and opposite
arm as shield.
Operation: Get off the bench
Ready to take your warm up off? Sick of riding the pine?
Step 1: The first step and the most important step is to never complain about it. Don’t let negativity creep out of your mouth
These are some notes taken from Jim Tressel’s book “The Winners Manual.”
If the game of life ended tonight, would you be a winner?
Everyone in program receives a winner’s manual each year. Always changing and adding things.
Notes from a clinic given by Kevin Eastman, Boston Celtics
What makes one person a winner and other people losers? How they think! Your self image determines your ability and your success. You will be ready mentally if you are thinking success. For instance:
A WINNER is always ready to tackle something new... a loser is prone to believe it can't be done.
A WINNER isn't afraid of competition...
You can literally double the quickness of your team just by incorporating a few simple techniques.
This quickness allows you to take away easy shots and scramble to close out, even when you get beat to the hole. Quickness simply makes a defense difficult to score against.
Tip #1 - Teach your players ...
Defensive Scouting
I scouted their defense so I knew how we could attack it... looking for strengths and weaknesses - things they did in specific situations.
How they defended inbounds plays - what presses they used and in what situations they used them... like after free throws or on sideline inbound plays.
1- What defenses did they use in each quarter?
2- What is their best defense?
3- What defense do they use the most?
If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost,
For out in the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will.
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But soon or later the man who wins,
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN.
Get a New Attitude
One of the first and foremost things to do to change your life is to change your attitude. Attitude is fundamental to the success or failure that we experience in our life.
Are you less successful than you would like to be? Do you have the money you want? Do you have the family you want? Do you have the job that you want?
If you answered "no" to any of the questions above, then you may want to take a look at your attitude, because so much depends on it!
"Life is 10 percent what you make it ...
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