Coaching Toolblog

The Coaching Toolbox has hundreds of free resources for basketball coaching and for basketball players.

We stated that one of our goals for The Coaching Toolbox in May was to increase the traffic on the Toolblog. We did that, and went through a couple of set backs. We lost all of the comments that you left, which was one of the setbacks. We appreciated those comments very much and it was not our intention to delete them. I am not sure what happened, but my theory is that I did it accidentally when trying to delete some spam. I am looking into how I can back up our blog data, even though it is hosted on our server and not on my system that I do the posts from. Live and learn. I better go back and read my Tool of the Day dealing with playing through mistakes. Anyway, we are working to make this a useful site to all of you and again, thanks for the comments while they lasted. We hope to get those flowing again this month.

Last week our focus was on posting some ideas to make your basketball practices better with ideas for establishing the mindset of a champion in everyone that takes the practice floor every day in your program. This week it will be back to the random ramblings, just like normal…

Just to keep in the spirit of the NBA finals, starting last Thursday, our basketball quotes will be from Laker and Celtic greats–we will alternate each day until the finals are over. I guess we are lucky that they both have a history of quotable players and coaches. I really enjoyed those matchups in the 80s, probably partly because we in Indiana were proud of Larry Bird. Prior to that I remember rooting against the Celtics when I was very young because I was a Milwaukee Buck fan as another one of our Hoosier legends, Oscar Robertson, was finishing up his pro career. I don’t really have a favorite in this series, I would just like to see it go seven games and go down to the last possession of the last game. That isn’t too much to ask for, is it?

Thanks to all of you for supporting The Coaching Toolbox. We are striving to keep posting useful ideas that we have come across for you. It just isn’t going up as fast as we would like, but I guess that striving to improve and become the best you can be is really what basketball is all about.

The Coaching Toolbox has hundreds of free resources for basketball coaching and for basketball players.