Despite everybody's playbook being thin and rotations yet to be determined these pre-season games offer significant early evaluation opportunities for coaching staffs. More or less, coaches are gauging the (S)trengths - (W)eaknesses - (O)pportunities - (T)hreats of their team based on initial performances against outside competition.
College Basketball Learning Curve
Discussing three concepts that tend to show the steepest learning curves for high school players transitioning to competing at the college level.
Shooting Philosophy
Let's get #52WeekCoaching back for the upcoming season. What is your coaching philosophy when it comes to shooting the basketball?
The Coach’s Guide To Teaching: Culture & Development
It is the grand finale of The Coach's Guide To Teaching; the book finished up with chapters on building a positive culture and player/professional development. Both of these topics would likely land on a bingo card for discussion topics during a coach's press conference; culture likely being the free square.
The Coach’s Guide To Teaching: Feedback
Any casual fan or former player can put together a lineup and call out a couple of designed plays. But, what happens when a team fails to execute, or a particular player has a sequence of possessions with incorrect reads? Coaching can empower player development or fracture their confidence when confusing feedback for criticism.
The Coach’s Guide To Teaching: Planning & Design
We're talking about practice . . . planning; a coach's favorite pastime. While there won't be many drills to steal from this chapter, readers could dive into how different types of practice can reduce the amount of slippage between preparation to gametime.
The Coach’s Guide To Teaching: Ability To Decide
This book has been talked about within the coaching community since it first hit the shelves, and despite owning The Coach's Guide to Teaching for over a year, I am just now getting around to reading it. This 1st segment breaks down The Ability To Decide, and our ability as coaches to teach it.
Permanent Rotations or Situational Substitutions?
The coaching question to consider, are your rotations permanent regardless of opponent or do you look to make situational substitutions game-to-game offsetting any perceived advantages of the other team?
Is Part-Time Coaching Possible?
When time is based on basketball seasons, life moves fast! For those who dream of coaching, yet are occupationally tied to another profession the question arises: Is part-time coaching even possible? Here are the challenges & rewards of the situation.
Does Switching Man-To-Man Defense Work?
In some instances, switching within a possession is necessary regardless of halfcourt philosophy. Yet, it is increasingly popular amongst the coaching community to switch everything due to the growing trend of positionless basketball on offense. There are pros and cons to any strategy, but when deciding if switching man-to-man will be effective my recommendation would be to start by observing the team's profile and disposition.
Coach's Climb 