“The Clinic To End All Clinics” has featured a lot of the top basketball coaches throughout the United States over years. In 2008, Basketball Hall of Fame coach Hubie Brown shared his thoughts on player potential… What kills a player’s potential? Low pain threshold Low (basketball) IQ for what we’re running Selfishness Can the person do …
Really enjoyed this article, The Everything Push-Up, by Nick Tumminello and was able to walk away with some very good ideas for training: “The other day I decided to break from my low carb ways and have a bagel. Bagels aren’t normally my first choice as a splurge food, but I got a weird craving. …
Early this morning I stumbled across a blog (SquatRx) that had a quote from Gray Cook… “It is possible for an athlete to perform well even when poor form is used, but eventually the athlete will experience breakdown, inconsistency, fatigue, soreness, and even injury. It should be the goal of the training program to create …
I’ll stay on theme here with this video from Core Performance on what they’ve termed, “The World’s Greatest Stretch.”
NYtimes.com has a very good article posted called, Stretching: The Truth. “The old presumption that holding a stretch for 20 to 30 seconds — known as static stretching — primes muscles for a workout is dead wrong. It actually weakens them.” Check out the article as it’s a quick read and challenges old paradigms of …
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 …
Quick follow up on my previous post on the traveling as it’s called in the FIBA game. Here’s a video posted by Basketball Manitoba but published by FIBA for the development of officials. The points of emphasis when making a determination are: If a player starts a dribble while moving, the pivot foot may not …
The science of sport training and athlete development are two areas that most coaches definitely lag behind the rest of the world in basketball. Sportskool.com is a website dedicated to delivering in-depth sports instruction and coaching for a wide range of sports and athletic activities. I can’t say that I was overwhelmed with the basketball …
The Sport Canada has updated its Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) and Canadian Sport For Life website: www.ltad.ca. A parent recently asked me to post the links to the theLLaBB, so here you go: Competition is a Good Servant, but a Poor Master – NEW! This document addresses the issues associated with the current structure of …
I try not to make too many bold-faced assertions… BUT, I’m going to. FIBA Assist Magazine is by far the *best* basketball publication that I’ve ever seen! PERIOD. It’s content laden and without any annoying ads dominating its pages. Better yet, it seeks to give a varied opinion of global perspectives on the game of …