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You’ve heard the saying, “Practice Makes Perfect” and you might not have thought it through but you’re certainly smart enough to know that bad or fair practices won’t get you to where you want to be. With that in mind, consider the following thoughts for your practice regimen. Have an Read More
No matter how many times you’ve been at either end of a score and no matter if you have the ball or don’t, there are inevitably a few possessions down the stretch of a game where afterwards you say, “that’s where the game was decided”. Even though someone will say Read More
Every time I hear a coach say, “We weren’t ready to play,” after his team has been upset, I really hear these words instead, “I didn’t get my team ready to play.” Now, granted all so-called upsets aren’t caused by insufficient preparation of one kind or another. Lesser teams sometimes Read More
With the new season upon us, it’s always wise to remind players of time-tested principles that never go away- no matter how much the game changes over the years: Condition! The more conditioned you are, the better are your chances of maximizing your potential. Be a beast in this area. Read More
In conjunction with this post, you may want to quickly review the earlier Hoop Coach article, Examining NBA’s New Player Hustle Stats. The gist of that article was that last season the NBA starting keeping track of five Player Hustle Stats: Contested Shots, Charges Drawn, Deflections, Loose Balls Recovered and Read More
I might have mentioned in past articles how often I’ve discovered coaching nuggets over the years reading Sports Illustrated articles-very often on non-basketball topics and most of them by surprise in articles that are anything but technical in nature. Most of these nuggets come in the form of observations by Read More