FEATURED COACHING AND STRATEGY TIPS
A RULE OF COACHING:Whatever you allow, you encourage. If you allow the behind the back pass, you will be encouraging it. If you allow a bad shot, you will be encouraging it. If you allow a missed block out, you will be encouraging future lapses also.
DICK BENNETT: Talking about recruiting players who are not high-profile but have heart and a willingness to work and some measure of skills: "You can make a lot of mistakes in falling in love with talent. You can never make a mistake in falling in love with character, plus a degree of talent."
JOHN WOODEN: In describing a decision to bench Walt Hazard, "I gave him three choices: Play the game my way, sit and not play, or go someplace else" (Note: Hazard played it Wooden's way and emerged an All-American)....AND MORE WOODEN: "I found the bench to be the greatest ally I had to make individuals comply with what was best for the team."...USA TODAY
JEFF JONES: "The following questions are the keys to developing your philosophy on inbounds plays. Do you inbound to get the ball in, or are you looking to score? If you are looking to score, is it right away or in the possession? Does your inbounds play vary with man and zone defenses?"
* CORRECTING A PLAYER: How do you criticize a player who hustles to get a ball going out of bounds and loses it--when it would have been your ball had he left it alone. You could shout at him, "Bill, it would have been our ball!" OR you could say, "Way to hustle, Bill. It would have been our ball, but don't worry about it, keep up the hustle!"
COACHING is making men (or women) do what they don't want , so they can become what they want to be" ...........Tom Landry
* KEYING OUT-OF-BOUNDS PLAYS: Two out-of-bounds plays can be called so that the opponent will not know which is coming by the inbounds passer using the inside arm held up or the outside arm held up as a play key. Your play #1 may be keyed by the inbounds passer holding up his inside arm and your #2 play may be keyed by him holding up his outside arm. The passer shouts out different #s, or words, each time he calls an out-of-bounds play. He may call "red" when holding up his inside or outside arm. The next time he might call "blue" or "white" etc. The numbers and words mean nothing...only which arm is being held up. This is an easy way to key out of bounds plays, and cause opposing scouts to grab their pencils--but they will have the wrong play key.
PETER VECSEY HUMOR: "If I owned a team, I'd fine players who made the ballboy follow them to the scorer's table to retireve their warmups; these are the same guys who left their laundry all over the house when they were kids for their mothers to pick up." (Ed. Note: Maybe it isn't humor)
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DICK BENNETT: Talking about recruiting players who are not high-profile but have heart and a willingness to work and some measure of skills: "You can make a lot of mistakes in falling in love with talent. You can never make a mistake in falling in love with character, plus a degree of talent."
JOHN WOODEN: In describing a decision to bench Walt Hazard, "I gave him three choices: Play the game my way, sit and not play, or go someplace else" (Note: Hazard played it Wooden's way and emerged an All-American)....AND MORE WOODEN: "I found the bench to be the greatest ally I had to make individuals comply with what was best for the team."...USA TODAY
JEFF JONES: "The following questions are the keys to developing your philosophy on inbounds plays. Do you inbound to get the ball in, or are you looking to score? If you are looking to score, is it right away or in the possession? Does your inbounds play vary with man and zone defenses?"
* CORRECTING A PLAYER: How do you criticize a player who hustles to get a ball going out of bounds and loses it--when it would have been your ball had he left it alone. You could shout at him, "Bill, it would have been our ball!" OR you could say, "Way to hustle, Bill. It would have been our ball, but don't worry about it, keep up the hustle!"
COACHING is making men (or women) do what they don't want , so they can become what they want to be" ...........Tom Landry
* KEYING OUT-OF-BOUNDS PLAYS: Two out-of-bounds plays can be called so that the opponent will not know which is coming by the inbounds passer using the inside arm held up or the outside arm held up as a play key. Your play #1 may be keyed by the inbounds passer holding up his inside arm and your #2 play may be keyed by him holding up his outside arm. The passer shouts out different #s, or words, each time he calls an out-of-bounds play. He may call "red" when holding up his inside or outside arm. The next time he might call "blue" or "white" etc. The numbers and words mean nothing...only which arm is being held up. This is an easy way to key out of bounds plays, and cause opposing scouts to grab their pencils--but they will have the wrong play key.
PETER VECSEY HUMOR: "If I owned a team, I'd fine players who made the ballboy follow them to the scorer's table to retireve their warmups; these are the same guys who left their laundry all over the house when they were kids for their mothers to pick up." (Ed. Note: Maybe it isn't humor)
www.basketballsbest.com
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