Big thanks to Coach Jimmy Johnson for sharing this article with me on NYTimes.com: Money(basket)ball: The No Stat All-Star. “The five players on any basketball team are far more than the sum of their parts; the Rockets devote a lot of energy to untangling subtle interactions among the team’s elements. To get at this they …
A coach asked me two weeks ago what was it that caused me to start thinking about coaching and player development differently. There are many things, needless to say; however, one significant contributor was a Italian basketball coach by the name of Mario DeSisti who I was fortunate to have met and learned from in …
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 …