Saturday, January 29, 2011

Smile coach, smile!

I had practise this hursday, friday like every week with my young ones and I tell you they are really into it now and the practises are really great.

Progress is so evident that you can nearly smell it in the gym and I caught myself just standing there at halfcourt smiling like a had won a million bucks.

They are in that age now around 12 where so much happens if you;

- Practise the foundamentals the right way (Especially body, cordination)

- Correct the little things that make the big things happen

- Keep them happy so they work harder, give the carrots

- Start demanding high focus in drills, technic

And what has happened after the last tournament that we played 2-5 januari is that more than half of the team (16 players) has started to practise by themselfs before, after and other practise free days to improve themself. That skyrockets their development of course and combined with the normal practises they improve so much they can recognize it themself and normal reaction to that is that you practise even more.

Some have more than doubled their hours because of that extra practise they do and thats one more for a old coach to smile about.

As a coach is sometimes hard to understand that WHAT you say even the shortest sentence ever can have so much impact on the kids. In that tournament in lund I had individual talks with the players and the day after we had a game again and one of the players was totally transformed. He was a new player I would say....

He came to my later on with a smile and said to me; "You that you said to me about believing in yourself and so on, thats why I played better this game"

He has continued after the tournament to be another player and all it took was one 5minute talk, well we all know it doesn`t come that easy in every case.

By the way I wrote some months ago about that the team will start shooting much better after new year and my prediction is spot on, its starting to rain now with the correct techniqe. Next step is the make it rain in games, so by march we should be in "hand down, man down"
mode.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Brad Dean Swedish NT coach

Development of a Basketball Philosophy

Swedish NT coach Brad Dean
















1977-1989
"I was fortunate enough to start coaching at an elite level at a very young age. Hard to believe it now but in 1979, at the age of 26, I was the head coach of Södertälje Basketball Club (SBBK). When I started coaching my focus was on the tactical side. The chess game was my"

Read the rest of the text by swedish NT coach Brad Dean on the link.

Brad Dean Swedish NT coach, his words, his thoughts, he shares it with you.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

I was a pointguard for awhile

Well as a player its easy for me to say what I was best at and that was shooting from downtown and I had a good understanding for the game. But lets just leave the rest alone :-)

I loved the game and practised more than most, but didn`t really have any guidance at all. You could say I learned by watching and feeling my forward myself.

My hero my idol was Earvin "Magic" Johnson but I never had any wetdreams about playing pointguard like most players do. The last few year I have been coahcing it seems that nearly everybody on a team wants to be that pointing man.

I wanted to be the greatest shooter in the world that was my goal more than anything. I enjoyed putting the dagger into the defense, leave me open and I would knock it down (most of the time).

But at some time as a youthplayer I suddenly became a poinguard and the reason was simply I would use my back, ass everything just like Magic to get to ball up the court and my coach said "It doesn`t go fast, but you dont throw away the ball".


This was not for me but I did it for my team. Thank god our normal guards became better witht he ball so I could shoot the nets on fire instead.

Coach Enbom has written some interesting thoughts down about pointguards that you can read here

I think one quetsion he puts out there is how do you choose your pointguards?

Well, I dont have the energy today to write a essay about it but.

Generally the pg`s in Sweden is choosen because of

Short and fast (nothing wrong if the have skillset for it)
Good bodycontroll (will not grow so much more)

But who was really most suited for playing the PG position, was it the short and fast, the fully grown kid or was it that one that never got to play PG?