At its core Dynamic Defense is a framework (and grading system) designed to push players to higher levels of defensive achievement. By moving across the four levels a player and her team will progress through guarding the basketball 1-on-1, helping effectively from any location, defending...
Athletically, I think the close out is one of the hardest techniques to master and even if you do, it’s hard to be consistent with it throughout a game (or even a possession). There are just so many details of a close out that favor...
If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.Every great endeavor begins with a vision of something greater than yourself, but until it's shared and internalized by the team, it will get no traction. So, as a coach, you are responsible to create (or at least mold) your team's vision. You are the captain of that ship after all.
You can develop a successful vision for your basketball team by making three commitments:
Seth Godin recently wrote the following on his blog: Fledgling sushi chefs spend months (sometimes years) doing nothing but making the rice for the head chef. If the rice isn't right, it really doesn't matter what else you do, you're not going to be able to serve...
But, I recently got to thinking. Are we as compatible as I think we are? Do I love you because my previous coaches told me to? Are you just a Sacred Zombie Cow? Or, do we really fit?
I needed to know (for both our sakes) so I decided to test it out on the biggest stage I could find: the NCAA National Championship game - theoretically the two best non-professional basketball teams in the world. It would be perfect. I would chart all the amazing impact you made in that game and fall in love with you all over again. You know, just like when we were younger.
Well, that's what I thought would happen.
The number 1-ranked men’s team in the nation (NAIA) is undefeated Shorter University coached by Chad Warner in Rome Georgia. The first paragraph of a recent article reads below: KANSAS CITY, Mo. – As the NAIA’s only undefeated team remaining, Shorter (Ga.) maintained its top ranking...
This video is an excerpt from our newest DVD series, Read & React Clinics: Planning the R&R Practice. We've mentioned before that in the Read & React Offense the ball handler is the orchestrator - any decision she makes with the ball moves the other four...