Take a breath. Go on, you deserve it.
You've powered through the first part of your season. Now, you have some time to catch your breath, assess where your team is right now in its development, and focus on how to find success in the second...
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The sole purpose of the Stronger Team Huddle is to provide youth & high school basketball coaches and trainers with proven performance training techniques & philosophies through instruction, demonstration and hands-on participation. This event is not a clinic, conference, seminar or certification. It is an...
There are a lot of things that differentiate Better Basketball from the rest of the basketball instructional market:
we spend more time in development of our products than anyone else
we've built the Tribe to offer ongoing support for coaches who have bought into our system
we have...
Scott's flattering introductory post, Welcome To a New Beginning, made me pause to reflect on how I got my start in coaching. A devastating knee injury put an end to my playing career in high school and, unbeknownst to me at the time, laid the groundwork for the most rewarding and fulfilling career I could ever have hoped for. Like the mythical Phoenix, a bird reborn from its own ashes, I transformed from broken down player to aspiring coach.
It did not happen overnight. I spent my senior year as basically a student-coach, a conduit between my teammates and coaches. I enjoyed it and learned volumes about the different lenses players and coaches see the game through, but I still did not realize what my future held. Like most teenagers, I struggled to accept that everything happens for a reason. When I did come to terms with that idea, I thought it meant I should become a doctor. So I left the suburbs of Chicago for Arizona State University (providing a slightly ironic, albeit different, Phoenix reference) with the intent of studying medicine.
Update: Last night was awesome. If you missed it, you can scroll through the live chat here or remember you can add to the conversation 24/7 by using the #rrtribe hashtag. Thanks to all that participated - I'll be posting a brief recap of the...
In conjunction with a couple of surgeons, Better Basketball has just released a new book cryptically titled Understanding Sports Injury.
The idea was this: we know coaches wear a lot of hats - one of those being injury consultant. Add to that the fact that injury is a hungry monster when it meets athletes. In fact, there are an estimated 1.4 million sports related injuries every year in high school athletics alone.
And, most of those happened to your best players! (just kidding, but not really)
You are called upon to make decisions all the time about an injury's severity and the immediate next steps - whether an athlete should walk it off, ice it, compress it, keep playing, or go to a doctor. This book can help make those decisions a little easier.
Check out the excerpt below or click here to download Chapter 2 (twenty pages) on the Shoulder. That should give you an idea of what this book is all about. Or, you can learn more of the details and watch an interview with the author at Better Basketball.
A few months ago, we decided to make some adjustments to our websites (the main BB site as well as the Tribe). It was time to make them faster, more flexible, and easier for you to use. It was time to make them easy to...
In just over a week, we'll be packing up our bags and heading to the first Read & React clinic of 2011. It's in Naples, FL so if you're in the area or if you just want to escape the cold, please meet us there.
We're...
On March 1st of 2010, we started this Tribe project for all of those coaches running the Read & React. It was designed to provide you with ongoing tips, resources, and community to help you constantly improve as a Read & React coach.
But, of course,...
As you can hopefully see, we’ve completely upgraded the Tribe site (and the Better Basketball site as well). I hope you like it and I hope it makes you even more excited to be part of the Tribe.
With these changes, we’ve changed the focus of...