Each of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of all of us. And all of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of each of us. —Jim Rohn This was such a profoundly simple statement that I felt it deserved it’s own blog post. Imagine if this was the mantra and commitment …
I stumbled across these Nike Pro Basketball Skills Training Camp videos and, although this kind of stuff is typically very gimmicky and superficial, these are worth checking out as there are a few nuggets in them (if you can move beyond being star struck). For full disclosures sake, Keith D’Amelio (Nike Sports Performance & Athletic …
As a fan of the game and even more so as a coach, I believe there are very few acceptable responses after a made basket. Further, to a special player, there’s really only one winning habit after a score: an immediate and automated reaction focused on the next best action. Coach Don Meyer called this …
THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A MOMENT… Your coach says, ‘‘We’re going to do some grand slam training, so I want you to do 1100 sprints for eight to 10 seconds over the next six hours.” Sounds crazy, doesn’t in? Well, that’s exactly what Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal did in their five hour, 53 minute 2012 Australian …
Beware of great plays. Common sense might seem to tell you that great plays make the difference between a good player and a mediocre player, but most coaches would disagree. More often, they would say, great plays (or the attempts to make great plays) are what make good players mediocre. Many players are mediocre because …
The teacher-coach that I am now is substantially different from who I was in the 1990s and early 2000s. When asked recently why that is, the response comes easily: Mario DeSisti. Granted I’ve had a number of basketball mentors (see: Mike MacKay) who have had – and continue to have – a profound impact on …
I love creative coaching! And, earlier this week I stumbled upon Fitness Quest 10’s Brett Klika. Check out this video he recently posted called ‘Foundational Strength‘. In it, Klika walks you through a fun and effective progression for helping young athletes develop the functional strength to do push-ups. What’s So Important About Push Ups? As …
Mental mistakes. If you want to minimize them, then take these two phrases out of your vocab: IT’s – “I’m tired” DFLI’s – “I don’t feel like it.” If you do, I’d argue that you will have essentially removed over 50% of the negative mental habits you’ll face as a high performance athlete. Those two …
DEFENSE… It’s a favourite teaching topic of mine because. To be honest, it’s the one thing that I could do, as an athlete, as an all-the-time, every-time thing. If you watched me play, the one thing you could count on me for, was defense. [I’m sure I have teammates that will go to their grave saying, …
I’m going through some of my basketball clinic notes and came across this ‘checklist’ from Ettore Messina on post player development… Here are the five (5) questions any coach or young post player must be able to answer ‘Yes!’ to in order to be able to be a contributor on their basketball team. Can the …