Category Archive for: ‘Instruction’
The Biggest Choke in Lakers Playoff History?
The Lakers wasted 46 minutes of impressive, gut-busting work by quitting 2 minutes before the game ended, thus letting the down-and-out but still hungry Oklahoma City Thunder off the ropes and into playoff lore.
How to Fail in Basketball and in Life (part 1 of 3)
Part 1 of 3: Those who understand failure’s relationship to success see failure as feedback and adjust their efforts accordingly. Those that don’t, fear failure and avoid it altogether — thus deceiving themselves into inadvertently becoming their own biggest obstacle to success.
Teamwork is reciprocal
Usually when we preach about the importance of teamwork, what we are saying is that players have to subjugate their personal agendas for the good of the team — and that truly is an important part of teamwork. However, teamwork is reciprocal; the team should give back to each team member, as this cute video (and 3 war stories) show.
Teaching the Read and React Offense: The Basketballogy Method (part 5 of 5)
Note: this is the 5th article in a 5-part series: Part 1: The RGB of the Read and React Offense …
The Basketballogy Half Court Scrimmage
Basketball is a game of habits. I’m reminded of this all the time as I watch players do bone headed …
5 motives for playing basketball
There are 5 basic motives for playing the game of basketball: For Money. Anyone who has been a fan of …
Passing and the Read and React Offense (RGB part 4 of 5)
No matter how strong each of your 5 fingers are, they will never be able to make as powerful an impact individually as a slap, as they will together as one fist.
Dribbling and the Read and React Offense (RGB part 3 of 5)
Ninety percent of the time you play the game of basketball, you don’t even have the ball! And you want to know a secret? Championship basketball is in the 90%.
Spacing in the Read and React Offense (part 2 of 5)
Whenever I notice our opponent has poor spacing, and their coach isn’t doing anything about it, I smile. My job as a coach, and the job of my players, just got a lot easier on the defensive side of the floor. In fact, I’m truly reluctant to reveal the importance of spacing here for that very reason.
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