Assessing your Coaching
Last week, I videotaped a lecture that I gave to my Intermediate Weightlifting class to use for an assignment for an Education class on college teaching. I had to watch my teaching, use a...
View ArticlePlanning a Youth Basketball Practice
A friend emailed and asked for advice, as he volunteered to coach his son’s youth basketball team. As in many leagues, most of the players are beginners, and teams only practice for an hour or two each...
View ArticleCoaching Frosh Basketball – Week 1
Despite night classes twice a week, I am coaching a freshmen boys basketball team. Former NBA scout Clarence Gaines suggested that I wrote about my philosophy for each week. Coaching will be tough, as...
View ArticlePlanning a Practice with the Competitive Cauldron
Since writing about the system that I use, I have received a couple questions and decided to start a new post and thread here. The competitive cauldron is the name that Anson Dorrance, University of...
View ArticleInterview with De La Salle’s Frank Allocco
Since today is the first day of official basketball practice for high schools (at least in my area), I interviewed De La Salle High School’s (CA) Head Coach Frank Allocco. Allocco has won two C.I.F....
View ArticlePractice Planning Preparation
Every discussion, article, or lecture I hear about practice planning talks about the importance of having high quality practices. I am a firm believer in how a team or athlete practices is how a team...
View ArticleGame-Based Practices and Practice Planning
Here is a podcast that I did with Keith from CoachBase Apps as a promotion for the practice planner app, which is available here. We discuss many of the ideas from The 21st Century Basketball Practice...
View ArticleTwo-ball drills, transfer and inspiration
Originally published in Hard2Guard Player Development Newsletter 6.4. Now available in Kindle and paperback. Subscribe to the weekly newsletter here. After their practice on Monday, two teenagers from...
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