OLYMPICS Olympic basketball… hopefully you were able to watch many of the games – especially between two non-US teams. I did when I could, but was at the whim of the NBC broadcast which limited me to only the games that USA was playing in. I will reserve much of my subjective thoughts to myself …
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 …
TED.com is a FANTASTIC resource filled with “riveting talks from remarkable people. This is one of my favs by Sir Ken Robinson. To quote TED: “Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) …
FIBA has recently launched an online coach’s library. (I think I might have mentioned this before on my blog, but I was just asked by another coach for a good resource and thought it important to highlight it again). In addition to drills and a video database to support the written explanations, the FIBA Coaching …
“If you want to be good, you’ve got to practice.” —Steve Nash Sometimes the media machine can deliver messages far better than we can as coaches. Nike got it right with this Nash commercial. /sef.
Simple – radical – truths worth sharing. This motivational video called 212° The Extra Degree, by Sam Parker and Mac Anderson hits the mark. A SIMPLE, YET POWERFUL CONCEPT “212° The Extra Degree captures a simple, yet powerful concept. At 211 degrees, water is hot. At 212 degrees, it boils. It’s that extra degree that …