Archive for the 'Player and Coach' Category

Great Players

Share This is a follow up to the Great Coaches Post from Alan Stein’s Stronger Team Blog. Recently I posted a hurricane of Tweets on what great players do. Here is the entire list… plus a ton of additional ones submitted by my followers: Great players… go after every rebound on both ends of the [...]

What Does it Take to be a Basketball Player

Share I have had this in my files for a while.  It came from Western Michigan Being a basketball player does not imply merely wearing the uniform and just being a member of a squad. There are many more important phases to think about if you want to be a winner not only in basketball [...]

Thought for the Day

Share Contributed by Coach Ken Sartini I always had 2-3 “Thoughts for the Day” for every practice.  I would read one before practice started and one somewhere in the middle if I thought they needed a short break and a good message.  But, I always saved ONE for the end of practice, I always picked [...]

Thad Matta’s #1 Goal

Share I once heard Thad Matta say at a clinic that the number one goal he sets for his coaching staff is to: “establish a life-long relationship with every player that cannot be broken.” I changed it a little for our program to include managers and changed the word “player” to “participant” so that the [...]

Basketball’s Mandatory Moves

Share I first saw Ed Schilling play when I competed against him in a high school varsity basketball game.  Even though he did not score much, he controlled the game as the point guard for the Lebanon (Indiana) Tigers.  He got all of his teammates the ball where they were most effective with it, hit [...]


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