Wednesday, May 9, 2012

13 videos with bball drills

Starting this year i`m trying to record more drills, so I can use them and share to others.
Here you have 13 videos with drills that I have recorded.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Soon another season ends and a....

....new one begins in the greatest sport in the world. The Basketball season ends one day and next season starts the day after for me, but many take long breaks from it. Its like normal with a long summerbreak here, but players till want to be good, somehow that doesn`t add up.


Every athlete needs some time of but put your money where you mouth is talking about or dont say that you wanna play pro, college or some higher level.


You will not wake up one day and fall of your bed and smile cause you are a NBA player. It takes not only talent but hard work to reach the highest levels and also some luck.


Playing under the right coaches, having the right agent or basketball friends. having some GM taking a chance on a not so certain "will make it" player.


I`m really hoping that I have managed to get my young ones to understand this if not they will begin a new season being surpized over that other players have develepod during the summer. Summer time is where young players really have the time to be PRO players, no school, most dont work during the summer and they are playing the right sport.


You can practice basketball everywhere and alone if thats a factor. There are no excuses to why you didn`t train.
There is just an explaination that maybe "you dont really want it as bad as you say you want to".


Summers are full of summercamps allover the world some are good, some are great and some are just worthless from a development basketballwise. I have been to a few camps during the years, not always as a coach on the camp, but sometimes just to watch some practices.


I can especially recall one camp in a european country that had one goal, money to the coaches and that was about it.


I felt sick....I could live with if it was kids there who just wanna have fun, but I tell most of these kids talented or not they where there to be coached in basketball and in life.


They got neither and on the second day me and my friends waas actually thinking of leaving since it went against so many things that we believed in.


Some camps give players a new reality in basketball, maybe they havent learned anything from their homecoach and they develop like crazy in a week. Some come as good shoters and leave as poor shoters since some coach thinks he knows how to shot the ball and maybe he could shot it himself, but he cant teach it.


In camps there are often many activ players involved and thats great in so many ways, but sometimes I think activ players forget that there are actually some players on a camp that want to learn "more" than have fun. Of course everybody wants to have fun, but I mean its not a popolaritycontest, correct that pivot, correct that behaivor, correct that footwork or whatever also.


Maybe most of the time the kids will remember the fun stuff (thats also important but mix it up and after the first day you know which kids who wanna learn), but they will thank you later on with all the other stuff, when they realize how important those things you said and showed where.


I watched one camp where they spent a lot of time learning a set play to use on 5-5 play, i dont get that.


Spacing, movement, screens, basketball IQ sure, but a set play. Was that really what the paid for a set play used only for one week in the summer of 69?


A thing that have been discussed some over here is how much and how long everyday practices should be. I think the time is in most camps is good, but I really miss a theoretical part. I`m not talking about 2 hours of starring at a expert talking, but the younger they are the shorter but and older you can do more of it and longer.


I worked one camp some years ago it was a new camp and they had all the right ideas as I see it, but the made a huge misstake and that was the prize of the camp and the placement of the camp. This was a camp that had 3 different sports on the same place, but different gruops so it was basketball for one group and soccer for another and one more sport.


Everyday that was a short lesson that had with elitetraining and sports in general, like nutrition, strengthtrainig and more. They got a small book at the start of the camp where they had all of these subjects and also space where they would right about everyday.


At the last day the coaches wrote some tips and thoughts in that book for the players to read and show to their parents. That part looked pro and felt pro. In that camp I only had one player from a prominent club and she for some strange reason played on the second team. Coach most have blind if he/she couldn`t see the talent in here. Most of the players came from a small club that I even didn`t know it excisted they had very limited experience and most of them wasn`t really talented except from one talent, "the wanted to learn and they where like sponges with everything I threw at them,"


I had one of the best weeks, with a great bunch of kids. I many times wonder if they still play on some level out their. I hope I made their passion stronger and I hope that I mad them fall madly in love with basketball regardless if talent was lacking.


One coach once said: "There is only one stupid player and thats the one whom doesn`t want to learn anything"


One players once said to me: "I dont want to practice these moves" I asked how will you the learn how to score?


He answered "It just happens, I react to the situation"


He didn`t want to learn in his "world" things just happens, well do I need to say that he never reached even close to his potential or that he stopped playing very early and maybe I dont need to say that he was very limited on the court. He was waiting for it just to happen and many other also waited for it to happen for him, but it didn`t and his talent went in the garbage. My point he didn`t wanna learn.......


Hope carmelo countinues killing miami today.....

Thursday, May 3, 2012

My pointguard in life.....

Well living in a nordic country is more or less the same cold as a *********** and then suddenly it changes and weather is loevely for some days and then it could change again to depression weather.

We have had great weather for  a couple of days now and that just makes everybody and everything so much happier even if their are problems and headaches it helps. Right now I`m not working since a had shoulder surgery and are now rehabing to get my left arm/shoulder going again. I`m planning and doing some stuff for boys & girls born 98 Pre Season Invitational 14-16 september here in Horsholm.

Looks great just need some more "yes, we will come" and I can calm down a little bit. But problems like that are tiny problems to that I found out that my father is sick with the modern plague of cancer. It seems sometimes like everybody has it or have had it, or got it again. Everything that I worship in basketball and everything around it suddenly becomes less important.

I have always apricated my parents and loosing my mother way to early and now my father with this terrible cancer I just feel helpless.

Helpnesses is the worst feeling ever, I mean I can be there for my father, I can vist him and so on, but I cant help him to get well. For like 18 years  I have been helping others achieving their goals in basketball and with lots of other stuff in their lifes. If they needed to be a better shooter, well I could fix that, if they needed to be faster, I could fix that and so on.

But with my fathers cancer I can`t do anything and that plainly sucks!

We have to make the best of the time he`s got left and how long nobody knows right now.
He`s right feeling as good as he can after finding out about the cancer and that it cant be removed.

I cant do anything but hope that he never has to suffer. He`s my father, my pointguard in life and nobody wants to see a old great player struggle on the court or in life.

This post didn`t have much about basketball, but more about life, but to me life and basketball is the same.

Monday, April 30, 2012

It`s been a while

I have really been missing writing about my passion here in My World Of Basketball, but due to shoulder surgery I have had to let it rest for some time, way to long. I haven`t been able to use my left hand for 6 weeks and finally this thursday I was allowed to remove my protection.

Felt like being reborn again :-)

A lot of things have happens since I last wrote something. This season aint over yet, but it has really been a struggle in some ways and also one of the best seasons in other ways. My shoulder have really tested my mental capacity and other family issues has made it very hard to be that same old me. Thanks to skype and great friends I have been able to talk a lot about the different problem and also positive things of course.
They have really been a "shoulder" to cry on and I`m deeply greatful that I have such friends.


Basketball and coaching my two great teams has been like a oasis, where I most of the times could forget a little bit about the pain and other stuff, but also sometimes it really has made me depressed to a certain degree.


To me basketball means a lot and when I cant give my all in practices or in games it haunts me bigtime. Yes, I know.....it shouldn`t, but tell that to my brain. I want to give my all to the players I coach, if they give me their all and I cant its hard mentally. But my kids has been most of the times really discplined in practise even though I haven`t been running around in the gym like I usually do.


Both teams teams has still developed in the right direction, so of course I`m happy about that. Now I have about a month before I can go back to my work in a store again and that time will be filled with basketball and shoulder rehab and a lot of walks in the forrest. I have made a promise to myself and that starts tomorrow and hopefully I can tell you guys on a later stage that I kept my promise.

Have a great monday, I will :-)

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Basketball Camp in Denmark?

My clubs summercamp has been going for 31 years straight and it is a great camp.
You can click on the picture to read in seperate window and if you have more question send them to: horsholm.invitation@gmail.com

Thursday, February 16, 2012

I`m not surprised - Lin is still Lin it`s no insanity

This superhype about Jeremy Lin, its like a few days ago he couldn`t play basketball and now he has risen from the dead like a god and taken over the NBA.

Well, surprise he could play this way before and he like everybody else needs opertunities to show their skillz. NBA and European basketball is full of talented, foundamentaly skilled players that never ever get the opertunity.

"you only get one shot" ....rememeber those lines from Emenims song.

I`m happy for Lin that players in his team got injured, I`m not happy that they got injured, but that was the key for him. If the had stayed healthy, maybe he would have seen some minutes, but not more.

Same happened for swedish Jonas Jerebko, when he came to Detroit Pistons he was lucky that players where injured so he got the chance to prove himself and prove himself he did just like Lin. Not the same diggits, but also with much less ballcontact.

Back to Lin, he is foundamentally good and he plays PG, which must be a dream in the NBA. "Everybody" plays the pick and roll out on the floor and the creativity in NBA coaches head stops at hedge and recover. Must be a dream to be a pointguard that is quick, got ballhandling skills and likes to attack the basket and knowing that every time there is a pick and roll defense will hedge it and recover.

I`m not saying there is a perfect defense, but if the PG splits the hedge for the 5th time in a row, come on do something. Hedging defense is dreamland for PG`s like Lin, Westbrook, Roose and mor.They got speed, they got handles and they got a basketballhead.

Back to my point if you end up in the wrong team, have low saluary or Mr "Age before skills" Coach you will make money, play at the game that ypu love, but if you dont change teams get used to the bench and hope that somebody stops, gets injured or fouled out (whick almost never happens in NBA).

If you read between the lines I`m not a great fan of NBA. Dont get me wrong I love many parts of it, but there is so much business that is more business than sport. Teams dont want to win games so they get god position in the next draft, most coaches have an opionion but not the last word. Superstar players overule or owners or chief of NBA. Money talks and to be honest until the final most games are really bad. Maybe not for the fans or the spectator that dont know the game, but for a old dog like me its more fun watching a kids game age 9 playing. They give their all, sould, heart, sweat blood and tears and that is so far from most NBA players and teams. Of course its a suicide situation for the players that wanna go hard because their are so so many games and their bodies gets worn out and injuries follows.

But still my respect goes to all players on all levels of the game that give their all on the court and in the NBA there are some players that dont hold back, but most do hold back and thats a shame.

Solution is of course less games and more quality, but less games means less money so that will never happen.

Players like Westbrook, Griffin, Rudy Gay, Lin, Jerebko, and more all that go 100% you have my deepest respect and you still got respect for the game and pure love for the game, the desire shows and playing hard is more important than more millions and "safe play" through the season so you can have a long career and cash in year after year.

I sometimes wonder how its is to be a "always playing hard" player playing with thoose kind of players that dont give a 100% every single game. I would be so mad. I guess thats why some teams have dominated in the NBA for many years in a row. When teams of Chicago, Lakers, Boston had Jordan, Magic, Bird everybody on those teams went all in the games, cause  Magich, Jordan, Bird demanded that of them, a player slacking would here about right away.

One of Birds books, I read some year ago he explains a situation with one older player on his team whom joked about getting a new contract (get the last cash before no team wants you). he said something like "Maybe I should fake a injury now and just chill out my contract".

Bird heard this and went over to him and said "Which leg do you want to be broken" He was pissed off go hard or go home, he played most of his career with extreme pain and still went all in. Hearing stuff like that most have pissed him of bigtime.

Mchale his teammate played with some broken bone in his foot throught playoffs, foot never recovered but the got the ring.

Jordan demanded perfection of himself and he expected the same from his teamates, he wasn`t very loved by most teamates, but deeply respected.

When you think of Magic you think of a big big smile, but behind the smile was the same attitude to the game as bird, Jordan, he went hard and his love for the game was pure as silk.

Everybody nowdays is hating on Allen Iversen, WTF!, I cant believe what I read is it a surprise that his brains was on the court and not in economics and more. But this player went all in and sacrified his body for his fans and for his love of basketball.

Like many succesful athletes or actors, singers they have people working around them and there is usually where is goes wrong. Friends instead of pro`s, or friend of friends everybody wants a piece of the pie.

Its sad to read about how AI`s life has gone, but show some respect and those who can help the man get back on his feet.

His not alone in the NBA with problems, they have always been there, but we almost never hear about them since NBA handle many problems themselves, with their own drugrehabs, alcohol rehab and so on.

NBA is a sureal world in a world, the players have to handle so much from pain, injures, fans, demands, being away from their families and more. Many of them enter and go from no money to a shitload of money, "mo money, mo problems". They have been taken cared of by others since college, many even since high school, dont have to think themselves, they just have to play ball, rest is taken cared off. But what happens after playing or when you aint that superstar anymore I think a big empty hole builds inside them ( not all), but when you know one thing and that is basketball and you "can`t" play anymore, how do you fill that vacancy in your life.

Have you invested money in the right things, do you have the right people around you. Do you have some other dream that is not basketball that can fill that vacancy for many pro athletes its a rough life after stardom.
How to get the next adreline rush it doesn`t have to be cambling, drugs or alcohol, but that is the road many takes.

Go hard or stay out of my televison :-)

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Lets pretend I`m Coach K

LaMarcus Aldridge
Carmelo Anthony
Chauncey Billups
Chris Bosh
Kobe Bryant
Tyson Chandler
Kevin Durant
Eric Gordon
Blake Griffin
Dwight Howard
Andre Iguodala
LeBron James
Kevin Love
Lamar Odom
Chris Paul
Derrick Rose
Dwyane Wade
Russell Westbrook
Deron Williams

I have to chose 12 out of these 19 players, which players would I chose?
Marked in red I would be cut from the team.

Whom would you cut?