Leaving a Legacy
Do you know what you want your coaching legacy to be? The fact is you will leave a legacy when you stop coaching. The only question is: what will that legacy be? Don’t wait until it’s too late to decide what kind of legacy you want to leave. These 3 sets of 3 questions will […]
End of Quarter Offensive Management
Game management is a vital piece of your coaching philosophy that your players should all know and rehearse in practice throughout the entire season. Knowing the time and score and how to handle these situations can and usually will determine how your season ends on the court. Today we are going to focus on an […]
Playoff Preparation
The Playoffs are a destination that every coach and player wishes to reach at the conclusion of the regular season. Once you get to this point, no matter how good your team is, they will only go as far as their bodies and minds will take them. Athletes, especially at the high school level are extremely fragile. […]
Bouncing Back from Mistakes – Next Steps
Our friend and mental toughness coach Spencer Wood was kind enough to share the following tips to overcoming mistakes. Errors are usually mechanical, tactical, or mental. This is important to understand because a mechanical error involves motor mechanics (such as a golfer moving his/her head too early, or a basketball player not squaring his/her […]
Five Ways to Become the “Go-To” Coach on your Staff
Every coach on a staff has a role (sometimes more than one), but the key to a successful staff is the presence is a “go-to” coach. This is not the coach who everyone dumps work on, but rather the coach everyone looks to in times of adversity. The coach everyone knows they can count on […]
Skills without Drills – Part 6
Here’s the situation: Season has begun and you find yourself wanting to bring something to your team that can immediately affect the outcome of the game. But you don’t time to acquire a new skill like shooting, or point-guard-dribbling-abilities, or ten more pounds of muscle. (Those kind of things take time – usually off-season time.) […]
A New Year’s Resolution
Did you join the 45% of Americans who made a New Year’s resolution for 2016? As the second week of the new year comes to a close, are you sticking with your resolution(s)? If you’re a fan of Jon Gordon, you already know about the transformational powerful of having One Word. Naturally, our one word every year is […]
Maintaining a Championship Mindset
When the season first starts, every team is in the championship hunt. Every team sets their eyes on the final prize – winning a championship and being crowned #1. However, now that most of us have reached the halfway point in our season, conference/district play is ramping up and the pressure to win is increasing game […]
Silencing a Negative Internal Voice
Thanks to Spencer Wood for sharing this helpful advice. As the season progresses, one common solution coaches must try to fix is silencing the negative voice inside of a players’ head. The quick response to this common problem among athletes from all sports is that an athlete must first identify the type of thoughts that […]
Skills without Drills – Part 5
Here’s the situation: Season has begun and you find yourself wanting to bring something to your team that can immediately affect the outcome of the game. But you don’t time to acquire a new skill like shooting, or point-guard-dribbling-abilities, or ten more pounds of muscle. (Those kind of things take time – usually off-season time.) […]
