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We are all teachers and students of the craft of “coaching”. The subject may change, but what makes the greats great (at their level), is universal. In fact, some of my biggest “Aha!” moments these last few years have come from my interactions with teacher-coaches in other sports. I love cross-sport learnings(…!). So when I …
Written by MIKE MACKAY (High Performance Manager, Women’s High Performance Program, Canada Basketball) “The greatest myth currently being perpetuated is the idea that basketball players can improve their skills by playing numerous games. Many of our developmental athletes are sometimes playing up to six basketball games on a weekend. This is often preceded by only one practice …
Day 15 on my Euro trip… I take back what I wrote earlier about Bratislava. I spoke to soon. As it turns out, we’re staying in what could be considered the ‘suburbs’ relative to downtown Bratislava where the action is taking place. For my Canadian peeps, think Mississauga relative to downtown Toronto. Where we are …
Day 13 of the Euro trip… Yesterday and today we took in some of the most enjoyable games of the women’s FIBA U19 World Championship so far: Serbia vs. Czech and Spain vs. Slovakia were especially good. There’s a distinct style of play that each country plays with that make it so much fun to …
Big shout out to everyone from Novi Sad, Serbia! It’s Day 3 of my journey and my first opportunity to really get online and bang out some thoughts in theLLaBB. I’ve learned so much, and met so many, in such a short period of time, that I’m really excited about the coming 2 1/2 weeks. …
It’s been some time since I’ve been able to hop online, so I’ve woken at 6am, borrowed a laptop from the women’s team manager (thanks Moriah!) and came down to holla at everyone in theLLaBB. I find myself now in the city of Bratislava, Slovakia, for for the FIBA U19 Women’s World Championship. There are …