Brad Stevens said, "The best leaders are warm and demanding."
— Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness (@coachajkings) November 3, 2024
They know that leadership is about relationships and action.
• It means caring.
• It means connecting.
• It means investing in others.
Brad Stevens gives young leaders 3 pieces of advice: pic.twitter.com/I9DOHoxVKN
Former SEAL Team leader Jocko Willink told a story about a team member who told him to limit the key pieces of information to know to three - that's all he could remember. Sometimes players get overwhelmed with information, too. Complexity is as likely to confuse our players as our opponents.
1) Have a clear philosophy such that players know, "this is who we are" and "that is what we do." Write it down and make it transparent.
2) Add value to get buy-in. Coaches add value via relationships, player development, and basketball education.
3) Embrace personal development. You model excellence for everyone around you, assistants and players. Find a mentor. Learn every day. That doesn't mean taking every piece of advice coming your way. A lack of humility always ends with the "stock trader's breakfast"...egg on the face.
Lagniappe. Blame is about ego defense and lack of accountability.
Kirby Smart said, "Don’t be a blame guy. That’s the first sign of loser mentality when you blame someone else for a mistake."
— Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness (@coachajkings) November 2, 2024
Blaming others is finger-pointing, it's not solution-focused.
• It's avoiding accountability.
• It's failing to take ownership.
Great teams don't let… pic.twitter.com/Iv0Uy88xq3
Lagniappe 2. This is long. Save it and extract something you find useful.
5 Baseline Out Of Bounds Plays That Get Buckets!
— Joe Haefner | Breakthrough Basketball (@BreakthruBball) October 30, 2024
This video goes beyond lines on a page. It will give you the key teaching points that lead to game-time execution.
These plays come from state champion high school and veteran college coaches across the country. They have used… pic.twitter.com/gWRFCWGYjl
Lagniappe 3. Coach Hacks has some thoughtful ideas about tryouts. Over fifty years ago, a School Committee man tried to tank a coach and season when his son got cut.
1/ Use small sided games (SSGs)
— Matt Hackenberg (@CoachHackGO) October 27, 2024
This maximizes reps, requires following directions, and allows for more situational evaluations