https://xitter.cf/t.co/DWSptAEXdk Mental Performance Coach | Former Collegiate Men's Basketball Coach | Assistant Coach Eden Prairie HS, MN
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I promise you, if they want to talk about it they will bring it up! Parents we need to get better at being adults and holding quiet space better.
Athletes don't need harsh truths they need support, knowing you got their back for life. When they WANT or NEED truth, you will know!
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Grateful for coaches, trainers + teammates who keeps pushing + supporting me!
@CRAZYTALENTEDUS @PGCbasketball @MCA_Teams @MBTbball @MNSchoolofBball @DBFrelix @PureIntensityBB @MCAmustangs
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Love this idea that Role and Value are different and both IMPORTANT!
This might be the toughest thing for a young player to understand! Special kids understand both!
This is GOLD!
Your next team leader might reveal himself during open gym.
And it's not because he scores the most.
Watch for the player who:
→ Organizes the teams
→ Talks when he’s tired
→ Sprints back after a bad shot
→ Includes the younger players
→ Responds when things go wrong
Open gym gives coaches a chance to evaluate more than basketball.
You can see competitiveness.
Communication.
Accountability.
Leadership.
You just have to know what you're looking for.
I’m going deeper on building purposeful open gyms and developing better habits with your players in my newsletter.
If you're a basketball coach and want practical ideas you can actually use, get the next one here:
NEWSLETTER LINK IN MY BIO
#BasketballCoach #cmdcoachinglab
Like him or not, he gets it!
Dan Hurley says coaches should be a jockey in practice and a corner man during games
“I understand the two different roles I’ve got to play for the players in preparation. In practices, I’ve got to push for game-like reps so that on game night they can execute.”
“On game night, I go to boxing trainer in the corner with the fighter, pumping them up, building up their confidence.”
“You’ve got this practice persona where you push for the preparation, and then on game night you become that person that’s trying to convince them throughout the game that they can do anything.”
“Any anger you see on game night for me is always at the referees. They know I love them. I invested time in them, so they let me do my job.”
Shooting after moving to a spot with pace... this translates. Sprint the floor and shoot while tired.
pass - relocate - catch and get a shot off - make it with a high percentage
Top 5% in the world get iso situations.
Coaches often talk about wanting players to handle failure better... but we are the same coaches and community that started punishing players for mistakes at an early age, when learning is happening (running for missed FTs, running for TOs, etc...).
Players learn to avoid challenging things becuase we have taught them (often in Middle School) that there is punishment attached to failure, and sometime later (maybe HS or College for sure) we ask why do they avoid hard things? Players will not try things they think they will get punished for, they hesitate and are not flexible mentally.
Coaches we are teachers. Do TOs suck? Yes of course. Do mental mistakes suck? Yes, of course. Do missed box outs suck? Yes Yes Yes. Teach players the expectation, hold the expectation, and allow them to meet you there. I am not anti running or reminding a team why we are at practice.
If you want a change in mentality for players you have to foster that environment in practice. Keep data on things, and have that info ready for conversations with players and parents. This approach takes extreme patience and perspective from a coach.
This is the art to developing resilient athletes. Every player is being chased by failure, if you keep running from it then things get hard emotionally and its exhausting mentally.
Instead flip it and pursue hard things, and inherently the simple/basic things become easier.
The whole concept of competition is to make things hard on your opponent! Create adversity for your opponent! When you practice facing hard/adversity and manage it better as a coach your team will start excelling in these situations and handling these situations better emotionally and physically.
Stop protecting people from the frustration of learning.
The mistake. The missed shot. The bad rep. The turnover. The failure to execute.
If the attempt is genuine, that discomfort isn’t the enemy of development.
It’s the signal that development is happening.
Great coaches don’t eliminate the friction. They teach you how to stay in it long enough to change.
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ICYMI Concordia St. Paul HC Matt Fletcher
A deep dive into guard-to-guard screening and his Bump / Tap / Hit menu.
Plus how CSP uses those actions to create empty sides, play fast, and keep the offense adaptable to personnel.
🎧podcasts.apple.com/podcast/s…
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“Playing fast doesn’t mean shoot fast.”
Concordia St. Paul Head Coach Matt Fletcher joins us on “Bump, Tap, Hit” guard-to-guard screening, cutting late, and building an offense that is predictable to teammates but difficult for the defense to read.
🎧podcasts.apple.com/podcast/s…
Eric Ritter, MA, CMPC retweeted
“Playing fast doesn’t mean shoot fast.”
Concordia St. Paul Head Coach Matt Fletcher joins us on “Bump, Tap, Hit” guard-to-guard screening, cutting late, and building an offense that is predictable to teammates but difficult for the defense to read.
🎧podcasts.apple.com/podcast/s…
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Christian McCaffrey on the mentality required to navigate an NFL season.
“It’s 17 one-week seasons is the way I look at it…As a player in the NFL, you’re trained to forget…forget the last gameplan, forget the last play, forget the last team you played.”
“You’re in this constant mode of on to the next, completely being present where you are now.”
No one will consistently perform their best when their mind is stuck focusing on the rearview mirror.
Letting go is a skill. Being present is a skill. Elite performance requires both.
🎥: B Scar TV podcast
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T.J. Otzelberger
The answer to almost every question in our program is
More Physical
More Into The Ball
Talk Earlier
Rotate Faster
Hit Harder
“I may or may not have a saying ‘Do the tough guy stuff not the smart guy stuff”
(Via @SlappinGlass)
All my friends coaching at the scholarship level, stop sleeping on @FOLLOWMRJONES guys!
Eric Ritter, MA, CMPC retweeted
Doing his thing overseas! 6’8” G/F probably still sitting in some of your inboxes on here 😂😂😂. But what do I know 🤷🏿♂️
Former Panther @kymoneyp1 talking about how his time at Merritt prepared him to be a pro #merritthoops
