Chuck Daly said, "I'm a salesman." Coaches sell our expertise, organization of planning and preparation, teaching skills, system, communication, and more. "Past performance doesn't guarantee future results."
We're critics, editors, and distillers. Convert raw materials into intermediate goods and finished products.
Some see a tree and others see a goldmine with maple syrup costing about $86 per gallon.
See a young player for potential not necessarily for current performance. The 'sapling' becomes a tree that coaches tap for processing into the final product. It takes about 40 gallons of sap to make a gallon of maple syrup.
What's our process?
- Skill development - build core skills - shooting, pivoting, passing, dribbling, cutting, rebounding. "Do you pay your players by the dribble?" Teach economy of dribbling in my opinion.
- Strategy extends individual offensive and defensive skills into cohesive play that creates space, advantage, and finishing offensively and shrinks space, advantage, and reduces easy shots defensively.
- Physicality. Is a player 'athletic' with the ability to play with force, 'suddenness', and explosiveness combining suddenness and force? Develop and measure 'strength and conditioning' with a variety of tests (vertical jump, sprinting, Cooper 12-minute run). That said, I prefer activities that combine skill building and conditioning.
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Lagniappe 2. "Movement kills defenses." Ball reversal and player movement create openings.
A dunker spot to dunker spot cut helps create a 2-on-1 advantage, when combined with a high ball screen on the middle top defender in this 3-2 zone defense. pic.twitter.com/aH62pX5Uti
— Chris Oliver (@BBallImmersion) January 12, 2024
Lagniappe 3. Many coaches get selected because of a broken situation. Coach Battenberg offers direction.
The two best ways to turn around a losing basketball program when you first take over:
— Coach Battenberg (@TerryBattenberg) January 12, 2024
1. Play better defense. Have a simple, yet solid system & make it a priority.
2. Improve all fundamentals. Work on different ones each practice in a rotating fashion.