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Team Team Team- the famous motivational pep talk given by the revered former University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, summarizes what many coaches believe is the most important aspect of team sports. The willingness to put others before one’s own self interest. Coaches often struggle to capture that same Read More
Tom Izzo Michigan State Head Men’s Basketball Coach We are in the trophy generation. Give them a trophy for 23rd place. That makes the parents happy” “Today’s society wants to skip the process. I hate that. “ Discipline is the highest form of love. If you really love someone, you Read More
Tips for maximizing shell drill from LSU Assistant Coach Bob Starkey. Like most coaches, Coach Starkey uses the shell drill to teach the basics of his defensive philosophy as well as how to defend certain movements and actions. Using the shell he illustrates how to adjust for his opponent’s offensive Read More
(This article continues the thinking described in the recent “Is the Whole Truly Better than the Sum of the Parts?” article.) This past season we spent considerable time and several Hoop Coach articles trying to arrive at a method for coaches to obtain an accurate number to ascribe to an Read More
Eight minute video montage of the University of Maryland Men’s Basketball workout program. You can find some unique exercises if you watch the entire video.
Whether we like it or not, we all inherently understand that turnovers are a part of the game. In general, most of us have a number or a percentage of possessions in our minds that is tolerable. For the old-school, it might be a raw number like 12 or 15; Read More