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WASHINGTON HUSKY BASKETBALL SEATTLE UNIVERSITY / THINGS YOU DO A LOT WASHINGTON HUSKY BASKETBALL While John Wooden’s record for NCAA Championships may never be broken, I believe the greatest coaching feat of my lifetime has been Pete Carril winning 500 games, earning 11 NCAA tourney berths WITHOUT a scholarship player!!! I can still remember watching the back-door cut his Princeton Tigers ran to beat the defending National Champions, UCLA, in 1996. And while I am not nearly smart enough to teach the Princeton offense, I have studied almost every other aspect of this great coach and his career. Of all his great teaching points, the one that I have used the most is this: “Be good at the things you do a lot” Maybe it’s the simplistic side of me, but to me that is just about the most brilliant, simple thought ever. So… what things do you have to do a lot to be a good basketball coach, a good basketball player, and a good basketball team. Today, I will share with you the FIVE things that I have done myself, with our teams, and with our players over the last 35 years. THINGS WE DO A LOT AS COACHES WITH OUR TEAM 1) LEAD: All eyes are on you...always. You are actively and inactively doing this at all times with your team. Your words and your actions are heard, observed, and emulated. There are literally 1000s of books to help you with ideas but ultimately you must develop your own style and your own tactics. Email me for my favorites at [email protected] 2) LISTEN: Hearing and listening are two completely separate things. You must listen to your staff, your players, your managers, your athletic trainers, your administration… You surround yourself with good people. So, listen to their ideas, their critiques, their problems. This builds TRUST and TRUSY builds championship cultures and identities. 3) COMMUNICATE: Your ability to do this as a coach has direct reflection on quality of your program and the quality of the people associated with it. In the iY Generation there is still no better way to make someone feel special than a handwritten note. A face to face encounter shows importance. Don’t totally discount the value of the technology we all have access to. Text message, face book, Twitter, and Instagram should all be resources in your arsenal. Follow me @coachneighbors on twitter or “nabes22” on instagram for examples on how I connected with people. 4) MAKE DECISIONS: “The Village Idiot can do 95% of your job, boy. It’s the 5% of the things you have to do that separate you from them.”- Papa Neighbors. I grew up with that advice in my ear from a young age no matter what I was doing. As a coach it couldn’t be more true. You must make the decisions that will mold your team and your program. You get paid to be right more often than you are wrong. It takes experience. If you don't have experience...READ!! Email me for faves on this. 5) PRACTICE: Over the course of a full calendar year, you practice at least 5 times more often as you play a game. You must be good at planning and executing a practice. Every effective practice I have ever planned took at least twice as long to plan than it does to execute. THINGS WE DO A LOT WITH OUR TEAM/PLAYERS 1) REBOUND: Over the course of a game, we have 550-600 rebound chances… a) Get 1, Get 2, Get 3 Rebounding b) High/Low Rebounding c) Triangle Rebounding 2) CLOSE OUT: No matter what defense you play, you will do this A LOT!! a) Sideline Closeout b) Storm Closeouts c) Brooklyn Closeouts 3) TRANSITION DEFENSE: % wise you are in transition D more than 1/2 court a) Tip Drill b) Get Back c) Progressive Fastbreak 4) DEFEND PENETRATION: Every offense relies on ability to break you down a) 30 Second Shot Clock b) N the Paint c) Stop Score Stop 5) DEFEND BALL SCREENS: Few games pass without having to defend these a) see attached PACKLINE PACKET or email me for it THINGS YOU NEED TO DO A LOT TO IMPROVE YOURSELF 1) READ: “The man who chooses not to read is no different from the man who can NOT read”. You MUST make time to read. It’s the only way to gain experience. It’s the only way you will catch up to coaches who have more experience than you!! 2) WRITE: When you put your thoughts on paper and in ink, they be come yours. Your words become your philosophy. If you have every “in your head” it’s not stated. And until you STATE them, it’s simply not yours. Choose a simple topic… Rebounding… Write out your thoughts. You will be surprised how much thinking you will do on it before you are willing to share with someone else!! 3) OBSERVE: Go to clinics. Attend practices. Watch DVD’s. Go on-line and use YOUTUBE or VIMEO. You can spend hours on hours. I have been watching NBA TV Training Camp and getting new ideas every hour. Again you are making the choice to or NOT to learn f rom others. If you already KNOW IT ALL, let me know so I can come observe YOU!! 4) REACH OUT: There are so many resources out there. If you aren’t reaching out to others, you are losing ground to those who do. There are coaches all over the country willing to share. There are blogs. There are Newsletters. There are YOUTUBE channels. All with coaches willing to give back what others have shared with them. As Don Meyer shares “collect all the good ideas whether you use them OR not”. 5) RISK: It takes a lot of courage to be a coach. Don’t settle for the status quo. You must be willing to put yourself “out there” to grow. It’s not easy. You will have some haters. But that’s exactly what you are teaching your players. Model it for them. Be a SUPER MODEL!! WASHINGTON BASKETBALL HIGH/LOW REBOUNDING C C Divide teams into two colors. Each team Acon is repeated with Blue team receiving will have a player at the elbow, the block, the pass from the coach. and the wing behind the 3‐point arc. We will play to a certain score or a certain Coach will pass ball to the player beyond amount of me, then move the shooters to the arc to iniate the acon. the corners. This forces the defensive player from the block to sprint to contest. White team elbow player sets a legal screen on the blue team player sprinng from elbow to contest the shot. White Keys to this drill: team block player fights for space against blue team player crashing from opposite block. 1) as coach you can control the amount of physical contact you allow 2) you can also vary the amount you allow White team player who receives pass from the screens to be moved. coach aempts a shot against the contest of player fighng through the screen. Blue 3) The crispness of your pass will determine team player from elbow sprints to fight for how much me your shooters have to posion against the white team player get their shot off who just set the screen. COMPETITVE TEAM DRILLS WASHINGTON BASKETBALL GET ONE, GET TWO, GET THREE... C C We use our men’s pracce team as the Aer we complete GET ONE, we add a 2nd offensive rebounder in this drill. If you offensive rebounder. Now your team must don’t have a full team of men’s players, GET TWO in a row before we rotate. Again, borrow a JV player from them for a drill. we go through the enre team. Worst case scenario pick your own best Then we add a 3rd… Now we must GET 3 in offensive rebounder (or two) and a row to complete the drill. incenvize the drill for them somehow. If we can do that in 8:00 we have done a Line up the rest of your team. prey good job The offensive rebounder has a football blocking pad in one hand. The defender Keys to this drill: will HIT the pad. The defensive rebounder must keep the offensive player from re‐ 1) Create realisc misses bounding the miss. If the offensive player 2) Demand HIT/GIT techniques can get the ball with a pad in one hand the 3) Create atmosphere of toughness defensive player must go again. We have ten players, so we put 8:00 on the clock. The enre team must get a rebound Once you consistently GET THREE, try to GET versus the offense to complete the GET 4… We have yet to accomplish it in 8:00 but ONE. creates a ceiling to shoot for aer the GET 3 becomes roune. COMPETITVE TEAM DRILLS WASHINGTON BASKETBALL TRIANGLE REBOUNDING C White team players have blocking pads. Coach has ball. Coach starts dribbling the ball and blue team players begin rotating clockwise HITTING the pads of each player as the do. HIT should be quick and forceful. When coach picks up dribble to shoot, players call shot and HIT the pad they are closest to then GIT the rebound. We do this until each of the players have gotten a rebound, then we flip it over. We also do until the group gets a set number as a team before flipping.