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When I was high school head coach and it came to choose starters for our first scrimmage I always gave the same speech. As a coach I was not looking for the five best players to choose as a starting lineup, I was looking for the five players that played Read More
We get a lot of messages at Hoop Coach via email and social media asking what Director of Basketball Operations do and what the job actually entails. Below we copied one of the best Director of Basketball Operations job descriptions we have come across in our daily job posts. Read More
This coming Thursday, June 25, the NBA will hold its annual Draft Day. Most of us know that the current draft consists of two rounds of 30 picks. That’s a far cry from the 10 rounds from 1974 to 1985 and the 7 rounds from ’85 to ’89-not to mention Read More
“Sleep is a weapon!” Jason Bourne via Robert Ludlum Early in the season one of our Athletic Trainers passed along an interesting infographic shared by a friend that is a Sleep Doctor. The infographic visualized the drastic improvement in efficiency in Andre Iguodala’s game when he slept more than 8 Read More
When any magazine or newspaper publishes its upcoming season preview for either pro or college basketball or football teams, there is often a feature wherein a coaching opponent or scout will give their take on a team other than their own. And, often in these sections, an opponent’s coach or 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
