Slides from my recent presentation on "Scouting Your Own Team" on the Cross Canada Coaches Clinic presented by Golden Ticket Sports and Basketball Immersion
3. “It’s what you
learn after you
know it all that
counts.”
“You haven’t really
taught until they
have learned.”
“Never
mistake
activity for
achievemen
t”
5. Strengths – greatest level of confidence
Weaknesses – what increases optionality?
Vulnerabilities – where do they feel unsure
Snapshot – where are they right now?
17. What is the ONE THING I can
do right now that would make all
other things easier or irrelevant?
What’s the worst thing that can
happen? Negative visualization
(stoicism)
“The Things which hurt,”
Benjamin Franklin wrote,
“Instruct.”
Man in the Arena quote helps
instruct and deal with the high
highs and the low lows. Embrace
the process.
Zero to 1 (Don’t Compete)
SIMPLE DOES NOT EQUAL
EASY
Teach leaders how to lead
18. Are you taking time to
understand what you are
teaching?
Antifragility
We value action
Manage the message
No phone after the game
Winning Matters
19. TRUST CONFLICT COMMITMENT ACCOUNTABILITY RESULTS
ABSENSE OF TRUST FEAR OF CONFLICT LACK OF COMMITMENT AVOIDANCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY INATTENTION TO
RESULTS
20.
21. A matter of context
Be careful of
conclusions you
make
Editor's Notes
Thanks for having me Chris, for Golden Ticket and Basketball Immersion for inviting me to talk.
I hope that you can all take something from this, but
Lessons – you are NEVER ABOVE TEACHING THE MOST BASIC FUNDAMENTALS
If they aren’t getting it then who’s fault is it?
I realize more every single year and every level that I’ve gone up how little I know
It’s about doing the right things, timing, relationships – it’s easy to plan a killer practice that drains them but
It’s harder to design a thoughtful practice that
Explaining that you never feel like you have “arrived” or figured it all out, everything about coaching, and young people and program building
Is too dynamic and every-changing to feel like you’ve ever figured it all out.
I get suspicious of people who have answers for everything rather than questions.
Don’t make peoples weaknesses a secret to anyone – voice them it’s a matter of making each other better
Do your players know what you are about as a coach?
If you want buy-in --- make them better – Reese story about her ball handling
What I said to #23 I couldn’t just say that to every rookie – it would crush some of them
#4 will push herself for days on end, the physical grind isn’t outside her comfort zone – it’s doing skills she hasn’t mastered
Just because it always was one way isn’t a good enough reason not to change
The Turkey Problem – no amount of past evidence ensures any conclusions for the future.
Green Light Shooting
Vitamins – usually geared towards your best players
Constantly playing with constraints
1v1 games where you cannot score in the key
1v1 in the alley
3v2 or 3v3 in half court in side screens with corner filled
Peer Pressure in everything – all conditioning and transition drills – they have to communicate changes of the floor, score, when groups go again, hold eachother accountable
We talked endlessly about interative improvement, getting 1% better every day, compounding effects etc .
Instead of using some typical visual like climbing a mountain use some noveltly
Office example is Jim is always pranking Dwight – one episode every time that Dwight gets up from his desk Jim pushes it an inch toward
The wall or copier – so for me telling them that I’ve been seeing this improvement and it seems like we’ve broken through to a new level
And are not going back I used this example – we have a few huge Office fans on the team, I love the Office it worked well.
Not all conversations have to be light, pleasant and comfortable but it is not combative
You need to create an environment of safety to be able to have this type of dialogue
When you show them examples of bad body language/attitude and challenge them to be better – that’s not always comfortable
This is wide ranging – you need to be able to dig down to the WHY of every aspect of your program
Super important when you are trying to change people’s roles – #4 is the prime example
This type of thing magnifies weaknesses, you need to make them aware of what they need to improve – also have to always look for ways
To challenge your best players
The amount of time if takes to get players to a point where they have added tools to their toolbox they HAVE TO be celebrated
Very first game coached at UPEI
This is a philosophy for life not just basketball -
When things aren’t going well, how do you respond?
Talk through these few sheets
Show the Stats sheet from Excel and talk through it
14-0 run to finish bronze medal
16-0 to finish AUS final
23-2 in the USport
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Hard to say anything that directly created that but you can say more easily what we were not
