Are you checking the boxes for excellence?
Not an all-inclusive list...
1) Skill-building
- Work on fundamentals (cellphone video monitor, track personal bests)
- Play basketball (read the game, superior conditioning)
- Review your progress (self-assessment)
- Study game video
- Study excellent players, coaches, and teams
- "Look under the hood" at what produces success/failure (analytics)
- Strength, quickness, conditioning
- Plyometrics
- Optimize sleep, nutrition, hydration, recovery
- Mindfulness (Search Inside Yourself)
- Sports psychology and confidence
- Teamwork
“The key is to let go of two things: grasping and aversion. Grasping is when the mind desperately holds on to something and refuses to let it go. Aversion is when the mind desperately keeps something away and refuses to let it come. These two qualities are flip sides of each other. Grasping and aversion together account for a huge percentage of the suffering we experience, perhaps 90 percent, maybe even 100 percent.”―Chade-Meng Tan, Search Inside Yourself
Nobody checks all the boxes every day. Choose to check some of them.
Lagniappe. Simplify transition.
Transition Offense
— Hoops Companion 🏀 Resources for Coaches (@Hoops_Companion) April 6, 2025
1 - SPRINT
2 - SPREAD
3 - SHARE
Most everything else will take care of itself.
Lagniappe 2. A bit older and still want some plyometrics?
Lagniappe 3. You're 'yes' and your 'no'?
Hoopers 🏀
— Anthony Pugh (@Anthony_Pugh2) April 5, 2025
Tune into the Final Four tonight:
What you’ll see
•Catch and shoot 3s
•One/two dribble pull ups
•Two foot finishes
•Ball/player movement
What you (more than likely) won’t see a lot of
•ISOs
•Over dribbling
•Selfish basketball
