And some people call me crazy!

Well, hasn`t been once I have been called crazy doing this that I love called basketball. But hey people if Im crazy what your verdict on the people throwing granades in Malmoe, killing people with knifes in a IKEA store in Västerås or all armys killing innocent humans around the world.

So Im crazy......hmmm. But I guess there is something good with beeing crazy also, when used the right way.
Now Im sitting here in my castle writting a blogg once again and another season starts for real in 6 days. Strange cirumstances brought m back to Malmoe and Malbas Basketball once again and this time it feels like Im in totally new club. So much more positive and adding to that is that the mens team made it back to the LEAGUE for this season which is great for everybody.

But its not that only......the atmosphere is just different among, players, coaches and people behind the scenes. Malbas with Malmoe as its city (3rd largest in sweden) has potential to be a real powerhouse, but has never been near that in modern times. Are we as a club, as a city on that path now?

I truly believe so!

With smart decisions and slowly building the whole club I think we can be that powerhouse that the south of sweden so desperatly needs. We need to get bigger as a club and that is not done in a couple of months. A coach from denmark wrote something that I will aways remember in a discussion about why basketball in denmark wasnt bigger, recruitment of kids and so on.

It was something like this "Give me a coach and there will be a bunch of kids playing" the solution is pretty easy, but at the same time it one of the hardest things for all clubs. Finding coaches that are willing to put in a tremendous amount of hours often in the end paying for their own existence as coach. Taking vacation days from work to go to tournaments, skipping family events because of games ( yeah I know some want to skip these) going directly from work to the gym and on their way to the gym picking up their kids to be a few minutes late. Getting there as fast as possible only to get critizes for beeing late.

Most coaches reality in Sweden or the nordics is not a fulltime employment, 50%/25% emplyoment, but some little amount that barely covers their costs to be a coach.

I guess more people than me are crazy! :-)

But regardless the coach`s situation all is expected to be profesional in their coaching, behaivor and planning and more. Thats crazy!

Clubs needs to to make it easier to be a coach and the solution is not only money, but its def a part of it in todays society.

Im starting work this week at malbas and this will be big part of my responsability to create a "happier place" for the coaches in the club. Will be an exciting season to say the least for once I`m truly put in a situation the make a change.

And this is a change I truly hope I can get done if giving the time o do so. Because this is not something that is changed in a heartbeat either.

Malbas is changing - We are on a mission and Im glad Im on point!

And like I wrote earlier, you can be crazy and still be good human, but the world is looking crazier and crazier for each year. I grew up being a big fan of two Michaels. One was Michael Jordan and another was Michael Jackson. I can honestly say I hated Jordan and I never shed a tear, but a few of michaels songs has made me cry rivers.

Here is a great song and WE should all start taking some responsability in making the world a better place. Not to care is NOT the solution that much I know for sure!

It took a lot of years....

......but finally its in the making. Will start up with one of my babies that has been just a plan until now and that is a CAMP concept that will be held 5 times per year and up on request.

Many many years ago I started summer practice in my childhood club LOBAS that I called
DRILLS FOR SKILLS, tough planned practices that covered most of what there is to cover for a baller in development.

Totally I offered 25 hours practice/week + 3 hours of open gym, crazy I know :-)

My first DRILLS FOR SKILLS CAMP will be a four day camp in cooperation with my childhood club, so this dream I have had for so many years starts at the same place where I dreamt of having basketball as my craft. So it couldnt be more suiting. going back to where it once began, to start something new, but still old.

Drills for skills Camps, will be held at dates/places that later will announced.
Its also possible to ask for other dates and if its possible to fit the calender it can be done.

First camp will be held now in june 2015 and its already full, so depending how its goes I will kick it into full GEAR or rethink it.

It will not be the kind of camp you are used too that I can promise. It will only be suitable for players with good work ethic.

Why?
Because otherwise you willl waste your parents money and dont show up after day 1.

More on this later...webbpage and so on will be launched this summer.

Börjar skymta en OAS i öknen

Längesen man hittade tangentbordet och var aktiv här på sidan, men har varken funnits intresse eller ork från min sida att skriva nåt.
Man kan ju hoppas att detta blir bra då :-)


Efter 22år som coach i denna underbara sport varav 4 år i Danmark (Hörsholm) via en kort sejour i Norge, så hamnade jag i Skåneklubben Malbas. Malbas har under flera år byggt upp en stark herr/killsida och det kändes mest rätt att erbjuda mina tjänster i en klubb med ambitioner.

Blev erbjuden intressanta lag och kom igång om än sent, så efter en kort paus så var man igång igen på golvet. Tränar bla ett killag med spelare födda 2001 och för deras basketframtid och alla andra spelare i SKÅNE med ambitioner så kom till slut nyheten att MALBAS valde att söka till Basketligan. UNDERBART!
 
Hur skall man motivera spelare om de inte kan se "de bästa" i landet lira LIVE. NBA och Euroleague i all ära, men de allra allra flest kommer aldrig vara i närheten av dessa ligor. Inte fel med drömmar, men måste också finnas rimliga trappsteg att ta som spelare.

LIGAN till säsongen 2015/2016 vill ju vara fantastiskt, men än är man inte där med båda fötterna. Sportsligt sett så är klubben i LIGAN, men nu fattas bara riktigt god korv på matcherna!?

Nope korven "är najs", men nu skall det ekonomiska på plats och hur är intresset egentligen i SKÅNE?

Finns en hel del basketfolk ute i näringslivet på chefspositioner, som har egna företag men är man villig att stoppa in lite "deg" för att Malbas skall kunna baka bröd?

Kan basketSKÅNE sluta upp under ett basketligalag på herrsidan, som det delvis har blivit på damsidan med Eos damligalag?

Förstår ALLA i skåne vikten av att ha ett ligalag på herr & damsidan eller vill man bara leka i sin egen klubb och jaga pokaler för sitt klubbemblem eller vill VI mer än så?

Vill vi skapa ligaspelare, collegespelare, proffs spelare en framtid för skånska spelare att leva på sin idrott på hemmaplan?

Kan klubbar känna stolthet i att skicka vidare spelare till ligalagen i SKÅNE?

Konceptet HETA SKÅNE var inte illa tänkt förutom namnet och genomförandet, men i alla fall för denna basketidioten så måste ALLA med på nåt hörn i Malbas ligasatsning för att vi skall kunna göra OASEN större i basketöknen.

Jag kan tillsammans med många andra duktiga coacher lära kidsen spela basket, men kanske du har "degen" eller lite tid över, så att vi kan sluta stirra på recept och börja baka!?

Eller kanske du kan bidra med nåt annat?

Vi borde ALLA bidra med allt vi kan "deg" eller inte så kan vi alla bidra med något inte minst att komma på matcherna.

RIP Dean Smith

RIP Coach Dean Smith.

A man that dedicated his life to basketball and helped to shape the G.O.A.T of basketball in Michael Jordan​ . We have lots to be grateful to a basketball/leadeership/teaching brain like Dean Smith was. For me he gave me one thing i particular. Many years ago I bought one of his books where he explained coming to North Carolina and at that time the university was all about fotball and basketball was not highly thought of. The had been banned from TV games for a couple of years, so recruiting wasn`t the easiest the first years.

What Dean did was no cry about, he tried to find solutions. Basketball program needed money, so for example he had them put in special comfortable chairs for sponsors.

He had the locker room re-designed so it would look more like a PRO locker room to make recruitment easier and his reasoning was. The LR is the first thing a player sees everyday and the last thing the see. He tried simply solutions to promote his baskeball program and it eventually became one of the powerhouses in college basketball.

With this I learned it is all right to complain, but make sure you do all you can o find a solution so that your team, club and especially your players can be succesfull.  Your job as a coach is not just to coach the players on the court.
You need to create a learning/suiting enviroment so they can develop and become winners in basketball and life.

Thank you!

One door closes and another opens

Im not gonna into details but when last season was ending I was set to continue in Denmark, but not everybody wanted that. I choose to move back to Lund and was about  to take a year of from basketball and study. With "off from basketball" I mean just coach one team in a local club.

 Then a phone call changed everything and all of sudden I was in Bergen (Norway) visiting one of Norways powerhouses in basketball a club called Gimle. I was amazed by the city and its location which must be one of earth most beautiful places, but i was also amazed about the possibilities that the club have that is undeveloped.
 I met some great people during my 2 days stay in Bergen and for me it was a NO BRAINER really.

Some days later we agreed on me coaching their mens and womens teams that both play in the highest league in Norway and finished 1st and 2nd last season. I will also have kind of club coordinator role to help the whole club develop and progress to what it has potential to be.

Im right now waiting for a apartment, so I can move to Bergen and begin my job in Gimle basketball Club.

Im ready, lets work hard and smart! 

Take a look at some pictures from Bergen and then tell me thats a place you dont want to visit :-)

Pictures here!

The way its suppose to be

This weekend I had many of my players on nationalteam tryouts so we cancelled practise and I myself took a trip to Huskvarna and a basketball weekend.
The coperatiing clubs in that area of sweden arranged a splendid final four arrangement of high class for Women & Men U17 &U19.

Its was a pure joy to see this beeing arranged for the future of swedish basketball and I do believe all players felt very special this weekend in may.

The people behind this FINAL FOUR in Huskvarna has just made a couple of players fall in love more with the game. Pro arrangement around the games, you could even watch games LIVE from the other gym in the other gym.

All games was broadcasted on stream and LIVE stats and social media activities all weekend.

The had made a program for the weekend that you had to pay for which I think is about time that somethings cost money around youth championships.

They even arranged a banquet on saturday evening for all players and coaches. Its pretty unusal in the nordics but very common in other basketball countries. LOVE IT!

Coaches got a special made mug, so they could get free coffee all weekend.
(yeah coaches need coffee since they sleep very little)

Many things to celebrate this weekend for. It had some nice games and on the final day they even had two elder gentleman in their fine clothes and even with a black tie sweeping the floors.
Not some kid 12 years old sitting like usual a great idea and very loved by all.

Many peoople behind it and team Aulander & Enbom directing the plays behind the scenes and Aulander even was speaker for some games dropping classics like "pengar" money when shoots was made, to "kust till kust" coast to coast and more.

NT coaches was there to hand out awards to players, just super.

But only one thing was in my eyes negative and on the finals a couple of minutes into the first final they stopped the crowd from using loud horns.....Who likes them, well not me, BUT it creates such a atmosphere for the players and as long as they dont sit and blow the horns directly into peoples ears, well guess what its basketball.

People are there for the players to support them in the way they can...most scandinavians need something to make noise, they had horns to make noise. A few didnt like how loud the sounded and simsalabim it gets stopped.

Have you ever been to a game outside the nordics?
Well its not like watching pool or bowling.........

I asked about it and one voulenteer said the federation said it was OK to stop them

I`m sorry but this made me mad.....

But the whole weekend was super and gets the highest grades from me at least.
Hope they get this 17 & U19 for a couple of years in a row now, why change when its this good.

Still in love - thank you Dr J.Naismith

1891 Naismith invinted what we know as basketball of course it was played earlier like I think it was maya indians that played something similar with the head of the beaten tribe member cut of after winning the battle.

But I like Naismith version better.......

Directly when I found basketball as a youth I knew that this was me. First as a player and for the last 22 years as a coach. I fell in love with basketball and now as this season comes to a end I can look back and smile once again.

Looking towards the future is also positive and one is exctited of what  the future will bring for a basketball addictive Swede living in Denmark.
I know what I want, but its not up to me so we will see what time will bring me.

Looking back at this season I will always remember basketball as my savior. My father passed away in February and thank God I have basketball or I cant even guess where I would find strength to carry on. But knowing that I have like 28 players waiting for me to coach them every week and all the headache and joy they bring helps you escape reality and when you are ready to face reality they ares till there willing to work their asses of and listen to your wise (hopefully) words practise after practise and week after week.

The LOVE you get back as a coach is what keeps you going year after year. Its not the medals, the trophies its the humans you coach, to see them develop, to see them grow and find out who they are is coaching. All the systems in the world cant help you if you dont have foundamentally sound ground to stand on. I believe that I make a difference and to see former players succeed in whatever they are doing even if its not basketball is to me the real trophies. I cant put them in the cluboffice or in the closet, but in my mind I collect them all.

This season one of my former players (Alexander AKA Gorski) signed for NCAA D1 Wyoming Cowboys after spending a year at prep school Sunrise Christian Academy in Kansas. I have never ever been so nervous in life as for him getting his signature in place and it was a lot of years ago I coached him. But i know I made a difference and i know his goals with basketball, so even if my girls won the nordic championships for U16 teams this season its still second to him signing for a D1 school.

Many propably think I`m crazy in thinking so, but to me coaching is so much more than the game its about life.

But the way my girls won the U16 Nordic club championships has its own chapter
Take a look at this, we are down 2points after a 3 min overtime and my PG Caroline Hyldahl decides to knock down a 3 from downtown with 0 time left.
(Even benchplayers from the other team are on court celebrating)
Click on the picture to see the last seconds of the final