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Dean
Smith
I
never put my team's welfare above the individual's
People
who have inner strength, inner affirmation, dont need the external affirmation
associated with the winning team. Those who don't have that inner feeling depend
on sports to give it to them. That, I think, is the wrong use of sports.
My
father said, "Value each human being." And we did.
My
first goal was to keep my job. Then I wanted to win. It was when I got more mature
that I said, What's most important is that we play well.
Athletic
competition as we know it produces what is called the winner and the loser in
our society. Those terms certainly have different connotations that aren't good.
The loser and those associated with losing sometimes feel bad, and the winners
have external affirmation for the wrong reasons. There can be values learned through
competition. But a total emphasis on winning versus participation is the problem.
A
system would imply that we used the same offensive and defensive strategy every
season. Actually, we were very flexible in our strategy, and it changed from year
to year, depending on the individuals in our program, who were diverse in their
weaknesses and strengths.
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Drill This
drill is designed to develop the weak hand while getting up shots at the same
time. More
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Play
of the Week Gator
This
play is from Current UNLV and former Atlanta Hawks head coach Lon Kruger's UNLV
playbook. More
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Motion
Pointers From
Rick Majerus
The Encyclopedia of 4 Out 1 in Motion Offence
Spacing
is critical. Not just early in the possession but after the ball has been reversed
a few times. Majerus refers to this as “spacing maintenance.” More
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Leadership
Lessons Bill
Parcells (Part 1)
- Integrity & Coaching Philosophy I
have been reading the Bill Parcells book Finding a Way to Win: The Principles
of Leadership, Teamwork, and Motivation and I have highlighted some great passages
in the book on Integrity through sticking to a teams principles and philosophy: More
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Six
Point Checklist for Offensive Structure Peter
Lonergan
Australian U19 Head Coach This
article is from Opals Assistant and newly named Australian U19 Head Coach Peter
Lonergan. To
effectively challenge the defence and provide high quality scoring opportunities,
it is important an offensive structure of system has most, if not all of the above
qualities. More
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Passing
Fancy Luke
Walton
LA Lakers My
assistant coach sent through this Luke Walton Blog entry to our team last week…
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Twittering The
key to being a good offensive coach is teaching offence so that you finish with
good spacing, not just start with it.
RICK MAJERUS
Line of Deployment - direct line between ball and the basket. Defensively you
need to push the offense up or off the line.
KEITH BROWN, CSUB
The most neglected thing in preseason is working on zone offence. You need to
be working on it from day one.
S. CLEVELAND, FRESNO ST. Decide
what you want your defence to be and build your team indentity around this - tough,
physical, extra-effort.
G. NESSMAN, SAN JOSE ST Coach
C = Conduct one-on-one meetings regularly
O = Offer feedback and assistance
A = Avoid overlooking the "middle stars"
C = Create an Everyone's
a Coach environment
H
= Help others succeed
C
= Commitment
O = Over learning
A = Audible-Ready (flexibility)
C = Consistency
H = Honesty based (walk your talk)
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Top
10 Leadership Characteristics 1.
Visionary
2. Integrity
3. Consistency
4. Coach/Facilitator
5.
Accessibility
6. Flexibility
7. Courage
8. Over-Communicates
9.
Positive Role Model
10. Inspirational Top
10 Sayings of Ineffective Leaders 10.
We don't do it that way around here.
9. I don't care what they told you in
that training class, this is the real world.
8. Drop what you are doing and
get this to me ASAP!
7. Don't worry about WHY, just do it!
6. Don't let
me influence your decisions, but here's my opinion.
5. I want you to take
risks, but remember our motto: "Do it right the first time!"
4. You're planning
to work this weekend, aren't you?
3. You oughta, wanta do this.
2. We
need teamwork. By the way, I'll be doing your individual rankings this week.
1.
If and when I want your opinion, I'll give it to you. |
