His team won big, but 73points and he didn`t play the whole game is still a lot of points he managed to put up there. The played team ball also so it wasn`t that they just looked for him.
Go Jonas!
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Danish player born 95 scored 73points
Well in a game some days ago Jonas Swame from Hørsholm Basketball boys 95 scored 73 points in a game. Something like 10-20 dunks and 3-4 missed dunks, he could have score at least 90 points with the missed dunks and freethrows.
His team won big, but 73points and he didn`t play the whole game is still a lot of points he managed to put up there. The played team ball also so it wasn`t that they just looked for him.
Go Jonas!
His team won big, but 73points and he didn`t play the whole game is still a lot of points he managed to put up there. The played team ball also so it wasn`t that they just looked for him.
Go Jonas!
Coach the players not the refs
Well, I think most of us been there in a game where the ref is totally wrong or just bad in general and you get upset trying to get him to change something he will never change. I have been there, but usually I dont say much to the referees in games, since it usually just leads to that you start on minus already next game with the same referees or friends to them.
Some coaches go at the refs as a tactic in games and YES, with some refs you can change their behaiver by being on their ass. But you need to be somebody for it too work usually, nationalteams coach, famous old player, then usually you can ride their ass all night long without getting the big T and in the same game to other coach says one thing and he gets T:ed badabing directly.
I once saw the great Coach Ivkovic ride two refs ass so hard in a friendly game in Novi Sad Serbia that it looked like the refs where little defenseless children. He made fun of them loudly so the whole gym could hear what he said and everybody was laughing. The refs well lets say the knew that is was majstore Ivkovic so of course nothing happened there, not even a warning. They just took the abuse......
I still remember my first "T" as yesterday it was 17 years ago and it was in my first tournament Lundaspelen with my first team. We played a deciding game for A-playoffs against a german team and had two german refs, whom one of tried all tournament to score not a basket but the german teams coach. I knew that so I said absolutely nothing for more than half the game. With 3 minutes left we just scored and now was behind with one point we where hot and their guard dribbled the ball, but before she took 3 steps and not small steps.
I said loudly "Hey, ref travelling" and showed with my hands the referee sign for travelling, badabing the big "T" and he turned to their coach and smiled.
Why do I remember my "T"`s its easy I have gotten a total of 5 in 17 years as a coach. I have tried to get maybe four more without success, why just to make a statement for being raped by the refs.
The last two was in the same game and they where ridicolous and just bad refeering.
When a ref is trigger happy and chases the big "T"`s, well then that can happen.
I have it on tape and I have laughed at it so many times, Nothing I said should have been a "T", the second I got for saying "thanks". It was cold as hell outside the gym I tell you.
Well, got hung up here a little about "T"`s, but back to my topic.
Watched a youth game some days ago and one of the teams are very good and the other teams lets just say not very good. From the first minute to the end their coach was on the referees asses about every call he thought was wrong. In the second period with a lead of 35 points the coach of the better team couldn`t keep his mouth shut anymore and told the other coach something like "Why on the refs the whole time, cant you give my guys some credit, we are up by 35 points, and some more, you need help or what?"
The bad team played zonepress, or different zones the whole game and all coaching that was done was, you are down, you are on top, you are 4,5 and so on. Mostly focused on the refs and onetime he put 6 players on the court just to make some kind of statement to the refs and when they saw it and gave him a "T" he even complained about that, "you cant give my a T now bla bla bla." Incredible.....
The better team won by 80 or 90 points and if it would have been great refs they would have won even more, because that coach couldn`t see the forrest because of the trees.
I sat there getting mad, because his kids tried, they really did, but the zonpress was just terrible and there zones was so full of holes you could fit a elephant in there. Why dont focus on their movement, placement and so on instead of riding the refs asses the whole game, it was to me sad since the kids tried, but the coach, coached the refs instead............
Maybe it was a one time deal that he focused totally on the refs I dont know I have only seen one game with him. But thats enought......
We can all get angry or caught up in the moment and lose it a little bit, where a humans......but coach remember when you are coaching the refs, your players are without what you are there for, so get come back to focus again, shake it off (hard ass hell sometimes I know, believe me), but remember who needs you the most and its never the refs.
Some coaches go at the refs as a tactic in games and YES, with some refs you can change their behaiver by being on their ass. But you need to be somebody for it too work usually, nationalteams coach, famous old player, then usually you can ride their ass all night long without getting the big T and in the same game to other coach says one thing and he gets T:ed badabing directly.
I once saw the great Coach Ivkovic ride two refs ass so hard in a friendly game in Novi Sad Serbia that it looked like the refs where little defenseless children. He made fun of them loudly so the whole gym could hear what he said and everybody was laughing. The refs well lets say the knew that is was majstore Ivkovic so of course nothing happened there, not even a warning. They just took the abuse......
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| Coach K can change refs minds in a game and he knows it |
I still remember my first "T" as yesterday it was 17 years ago and it was in my first tournament Lundaspelen with my first team. We played a deciding game for A-playoffs against a german team and had two german refs, whom one of tried all tournament to score not a basket but the german teams coach. I knew that so I said absolutely nothing for more than half the game. With 3 minutes left we just scored and now was behind with one point we where hot and their guard dribbled the ball, but before she took 3 steps and not small steps.
I said loudly "Hey, ref travelling" and showed with my hands the referee sign for travelling, badabing the big "T" and he turned to their coach and smiled.
Why do I remember my "T"`s its easy I have gotten a total of 5 in 17 years as a coach. I have tried to get maybe four more without success, why just to make a statement for being raped by the refs.
The last two was in the same game and they where ridicolous and just bad refeering.
When a ref is trigger happy and chases the big "T"`s, well then that can happen.
I have it on tape and I have laughed at it so many times, Nothing I said should have been a "T", the second I got for saying "thanks". It was cold as hell outside the gym I tell you.
Well, got hung up here a little about "T"`s, but back to my topic.
Watched a youth game some days ago and one of the teams are very good and the other teams lets just say not very good. From the first minute to the end their coach was on the referees asses about every call he thought was wrong. In the second period with a lead of 35 points the coach of the better team couldn`t keep his mouth shut anymore and told the other coach something like "Why on the refs the whole time, cant you give my guys some credit, we are up by 35 points, and some more, you need help or what?"
The bad team played zonepress, or different zones the whole game and all coaching that was done was, you are down, you are on top, you are 4,5 and so on. Mostly focused on the refs and onetime he put 6 players on the court just to make some kind of statement to the refs and when they saw it and gave him a "T" he even complained about that, "you cant give my a T now bla bla bla." Incredible.....
The better team won by 80 or 90 points and if it would have been great refs they would have won even more, because that coach couldn`t see the forrest because of the trees.
I sat there getting mad, because his kids tried, they really did, but the zonpress was just terrible and there zones was so full of holes you could fit a elephant in there. Why dont focus on their movement, placement and so on instead of riding the refs asses the whole game, it was to me sad since the kids tried, but the coach, coached the refs instead............
Maybe it was a one time deal that he focused totally on the refs I dont know I have only seen one game with him. But thats enought......
We can all get angry or caught up in the moment and lose it a little bit, where a humans......but coach remember when you are coaching the refs, your players are without what you are there for, so get come back to focus again, shake it off (hard ass hell sometimes I know, believe me), but remember who needs you the most and its never the refs.
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.
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.
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?
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?
Saturday, January 22, 2011
I dissed 2 leaguegames today
Thats not something that happens or has happened a lot in my life, but had my sister and boyfriend and daughter here visiting me in denmark.
I was a fun visit but of course I got to check the results on the net:-)
Tonight I`m looking forward to watching my favourite collegeteam Duke play against Wake Forresty at 22:00 european time. Was some weeks ago I saw my last Duke game, but fun that Coach K has gone back to the old kind of Duke gamestyle.
Tommorrow first normal game witht he kids and that will be fun allthought the country is right now hammered with sickness and my team is no exception. Hade 9 of 16 players on last practise, one injured and 6 home sick.
Yesterday I was late to practise since I couldn`t get of work in time. I entered the gym and this gym has the entrance on the second floor and have glasswondows facing the gym, so I stood and watched forst for some time before I went down to the court.
I was proud...my 12 year old kids the weren`t jerking around, they had by themself started practise and when I came into the gym they were playing 3-3-3.
Have had many teams during the years, that it would have looked something like this:
- Lowered basket and dunking on 2,60 basket
- Throwing balls from halfcourt
- Sitting/standing and talking
- Using some other stuff in the gym like ropes, trampoline
And so on.....
These team/kids is the real thing and thats makes me so so happy since I have the chance to work with this group.
I was a fun visit but of course I got to check the results on the net:-)
Tonight I`m looking forward to watching my favourite collegeteam Duke play against Wake Forresty at 22:00 european time. Was some weeks ago I saw my last Duke game, but fun that Coach K has gone back to the old kind of Duke gamestyle.
Tommorrow first normal game witht he kids and that will be fun allthought the country is right now hammered with sickness and my team is no exception. Hade 9 of 16 players on last practise, one injured and 6 home sick.
Yesterday I was late to practise since I couldn`t get of work in time. I entered the gym and this gym has the entrance on the second floor and have glasswondows facing the gym, so I stood and watched forst for some time before I went down to the court.
I was proud...my 12 year old kids the weren`t jerking around, they had by themself started practise and when I came into the gym they were playing 3-3-3.
Have had many teams during the years, that it would have looked something like this:
- Lowered basket and dunking on 2,60 basket
- Throwing balls from halfcourt
- Sitting/standing and talking
- Using some other stuff in the gym like ropes, trampoline
And so on.....
These team/kids is the real thing and thats makes me so so happy since I have the chance to work with this group.
Swedish federation is looking for
a fulltime physicalcoach to work with the nationalteams. The add is in swedish but you can find a email in the add, so maybe its something for you.
Phsyical coach for swedish basketball
Phsyical coach for swedish basketball
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