Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Coaching U Live - 2014 Las Vegas
VIP Speaker Session - Brendan Suhr - 10 Ideas that Transfer from NBA to college & high school.
- Last year: Why do I coach? Would I want to play for myself? When you lose your "why" you lose your way. This clinic is about understanding why we're coaching. We coach for the kids. - The goal - why do I do what I do? 1. Player/coach relationship - Coach K, Doc Rivers, Geno, Popovich - They can coach in a demanding style because of the relationship they have with their players. - The great players demand that you coach them hard. 2. Evaluate your practices - How much time do I practice? - Pat Riley - 3 hour practices. "Kill them every day" - Chuck Daly tapered toward end of season because of all the games and the wear on the players. Stopped practicing and then saved their legs. - PRACTICE SMART AND BE EFFICIENT. Decide what you want to do! - Teach defense while you teach offense. Do both at the same time! Be twice as efficient. This is not football. - Watching film: In the NBA the players' attention span is very short. As short as the kids we're coaching. No more than 13 clips! 4 or 5 best offensive players. 2 BLOBs, 2 SLOBs, 2 transition. Make sure learning takes place while you're watching video!!! It's not meant to punish. Things that you say because you're mad and angry sometimes leave scars on players. Shout praise and whisper criticism. Isiah Thomas would coach his teammates very hard, but when it came time to coach Isiah, Suhr couldn't coach him hard at all or he'd go in the tank. Know what turns the button on each one of your players. - How many meetings do you have with your players during the course of the year? - 2800 in the NBA. Every timeout. Every halftime. Every quarter. After every game. - During meeting: Change personnel, change strategy, motivate, inspire, give hope - when we come out of the timeout 28,000 know whether we had a good meeting or not. - Business meetings are 1-2 hours and nothing gets accomplished. We must get results right away! You have to determine strategy and you have to get results. - Tom Flick - 70 huddles a game. 15-20 seconds to determine strategy, play, motivation, 10 teammates with different education, backgrounds, religions, etc. For that play to work, that group of people has to come together to be one. And in 6 seconds we will know whether it worked or not! Bring them together and make them one! 3. EXECUTION - Offense and defense. You must execute. Therefore you have to teach well. You have to be prepared. We must demand execution. 4. Belief system. - You have to know what you stand for. Offensively and defensively we have to believe something. Don't change your system after bad games! You get buy in from believe in. If you keep changing they're not going to believe in it. The other key to get buy in is to get your best player to buy in. "Heres what I want to do. But it won't work unless you buy in." 5. Offensive style of play. - Danger of clinics and watching champions. We try to emulate their system without having the personnel. Make your style fit your talent. Take back what fits
1 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 you!! Take bits and pieces from the best coaches in the world and then make it your own. When you put it in, it becomes yours. - Can you beat the best teams that you play? Does your system allow you to beat the BEST. That's the style of play that you want to have. Get your team ready for the playoffs. Don't change your style of play just because you're playing weak teams. - Things to consider: Do we want to fast break? Does your team have the personnel for it? Are we going to have a secondary break? Triangle? Princeton? Passing game? Motion? Dribble drive. Set play? Continuity offense? Pick & roll attack? - Do you play anyone that plays the P&R, if yes you better learn it. - Quick hitters help you get the right player get a shot. Do I have 3-5 sets to get my best player a shot? 6. Do I have a crunch time offense? In the course of the game we figure each other out. Do we have special plays for last 4 minutes of games that LOOK just like other sets, but are a counter. Suhr has a whole series of plays that they will do that they only use for last 4 min. 7. How many zone offenses do we need to have? Do you have enough attacks in zone that when teams take away your man plays that you are still on the attack. - How many press offenses do you have? Is my team prepared for special situations? Timeout with under 20 seconds to go. Am I making stuff up? Less than 5% of stuff made up for the first time in timeouts works. Have them prepared!! Coaches at every level are making up plays in the last second - it doesn't work! Run what you have practiced. 8. Defensively - how do we defend pick and rolls? How do we play post defense? What do you do when we play against a phenomenal player? Do we have a defense to stop the very best player. Can we get the ball out of the best player's hands? Do we have junk to disrupt a team? 9. This should be number 9 - Are you a discipline coach or a standards coach? Do your rules prevent you from winning. Coach's job is to help win the game. There are basic discipline rules for missing practices, etc. Coach K's book called the Gold Standard. Standards allow you to be a leader as a coach. "Be on time." "No excuses." "The way you treat your teammates." You have to have a vision of how you want your program to be. You also have to have a vision of how you are going to react when you get a call at 2 AM that one of your players has been in an incident. You must have a plan for when things go wrong. Talk it over with someone that you trust. 10. Every one of your players have to be an A student in basketball. All of them have to know it! In our class it matters that every player learns. Otherwise things don't work. Academics and basketball IQ are not the asme.
Geno Auriemma - Inside a Championship Program
- Theres two kind of coaches in the world: Those that coach great players and ex-coaches - If you want to do this for a long time you have to get great players, or to turn good into great. - When Geno took over he found out several things as to why they were 9-19. - No expectations - No locker room - Nothin 'nice'
2 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - Didn't travel the right way. - They expected to lose because they expectations were for losing. - Established certain things right from the beginning: - You have to dress a certain way. - If you don't go to class, or go to study hall, you don't practice.
- Start out recruiting good kids who want to buy in, who treat each other well, who go to class, etc. That way when the big names come to visit you have a quality program to show them. - You don't need the best players to win. Just having one isn't enough, though. - Don't be working for your next job. If you want another job, be great at the one you have.
- Offensively what is important? - Quickness: quick minds, quick eyes, quick hands, quick feet. These are good basketball players! Think quickly, move quickly, react quickly. - Basketball players have to be able to catch, dribble, pass, shoot, and a willingness to play D. We aren't specialists. The game has changed. Everyone has to be able to do all five. Foreign influence has players who can do it all. - Pace of play: When you ask kids to go half court and back and full court and back, they go, but they go at their pace. They have their pace, and coaches have their pace. Every drill you do needs to be at the coach's pace. Playing at the coach's pace makes them as good as they're going to be. Playing at their comfort speed and they will be limited by their expectations. - First thing they do is teach them how to do the things they don't really want to do. How to set a good screen: The longer you wait the better it gets! The defense decides what they're going to do and then we respond. He either has to foul or there wont be help from big guy. GRAB THE SCREENER AND HOLD OFF THE DEFENSE. After you force your defender on your hip, go toward the ball and then the screener gets a layup. - Do drills that mirror your offense. - Spend 30-45 minutes a day making shots. It doesn't matter how good your plays are if you can't make shots. If you only practice 15 minutes tomorrow and then we have to play a game, what would you do? SHOOT! Spend a lot of time every day shooting the ball. Not shooting drills, but out of the offense. All shooting drills are out offense. - Every passing and shooting drill is 50 years old - passing drill shooting drill and part of offense. - Triangle offense concept: Read line concept. Point crosses half the ball and has about five feet before he must make decision. The four in the two guard trailer spot crosses half court at same time. If we don't have wing pass we start guard to guard. - Every time you cut, cut like you're getting a layup. Coach - coach like he's getting a layup. - In this passing drill that simulates triangle he puts defenders on best two players to help them learn to get open. Creates awareness of who are we trying to get shots for. - Always trying to play 3 on 3 on one side and then leave best 2 players on weak side and let them play 2 on 2. - The best way is if you like what somebody does is to go watch them practice. If you want to steal something, go watch them practice.
3 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - If you don't know it, don't try to teach it. - When you come up hard on people, they go by you. If you don't close out all the way, then they shoot. Use your defense to create doubt about what the offense should do. They pack the paint and stunt at ball. - No threes no fouls.
- Did we win the game because we were great or because they weren't any good? - We want to be great every game. Win the game because we execute. - The most important thing a person can know is what they don't know.
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Dwayne Casey - 2-3 Matchup Zone Defense - The Spurs changed the game by winning with ball movement and player movement. If you have the ball for more than 2 seconds you're wrong. - You don't get chemistry unless you have trust. Don't take it for granted. Same players can come back and the trust can be gone. - Rules: Be on time. Makes players tuck shirts in. Shoes tied during film, ready to play. A little bit of discipline goes a long way. - Set franchise record for wins because of buy-in. - The number one thing is defense. You must be able to get stops.
- Protect the paint!! - Everybody's starting place in the zone is called their "room." - No straight line drives to the basket. Must make them go east-west. Heels on the three point line. - Must have trust in the zone. Don't doubt the zone if they make a couple shots. If you are having trouble getting stops, change the rhythm. Use it ATO and in situations. - In transition make sure you can point to your match. When the ball is on the wing in the zone, it cannot go baseline. - Sprint to the nail. Sprint to the gap for the top guard when it goes to the wing. - On the baseline runner they "bump down." Weakside player "escorts to the rim" and then top guard bumps the wing down. Wing looks to short corner first before filling out to corner. Guy must guard the ball until he gets pushed off. - On any skip pass you go back to your room. - As soon as the offensive player puts a second hand on the ball, both hands go up. - When the corner is filled, they ice the wing ball screen. - When in doubt, talk it out. Always try to work your way back to your room. - "Mine" on closeouts. - Keep the catches outside the paint. - Always want to match up your 5 with their 5. - Goal of the zone is a contested shot outside the paint. - Compete in every drill. Keep score. Put time up. - They do 4 on 3 closeout drill. "Mine" closeouts and then 2 guarding 3.
4 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - Use a red jersey to signify either a hot shooter or a non-shooter. - Dallas zone was most effective when they used it when they were behind. Players had to believe in it and ask for it. - Center has to be smart. Has to be the radar. Toronto hasn't used it as much because their center isn't smart. - Goal for the game is 7 3-stops in a row. Multiple stops is key. - This year they will chart deflections. - Kyle Lowry plays off because he's not as quick as other guys. Would rather protect the paint. - 7 Fundamentals of Basketball: - Get your team in a stance - balance and power can move. - Get them to see and anticipate the next play. On offense or defense. - Flesh to flesh contact. Find a bunch of players that like contact. Hit first. - Talking - point to your match and call it out, especially in transition. - Attention to detail. Get to where you're supposed to be. Right angles on screens. Space the floor correctly. "Spacing is offense. Offense is spacing." - Have an act. Pump fake, pass fakes, slipping screens. Must use deception! - FINISH. Finish the the play. Finish the basket. Finish the cut. Finish the drill.
If you listen to your players, you will learn a lot.
Doc Rivers - Coaching: the Most Important Things I Do"
- When you steal a play, make it work for you. - Lesson from the Sterling Thing: Whatever we did, we had to do it as a group. - I'm going to do whatever you tell me to do. I'm here to serve you. We just need to do it together. - Protect protect protect (the players). - One voice as a team. - Make sure that none of the players became part of the story. - We're always coaching on the fly. Trust your instincts. You're right more than you're not. Don't let fear turn into inaction.
Most important things I do: - Set the table. Build your organization. Know what you are about. You cannot do it alone. You have to get everyone to buy in (before we even get to the players). Get them to understand that everyone must work together. Have a vision what winning looks like for your organization. Have a vision as to what a championship looks like for an organization. Winning can get in the way of winning a championship. There's a difference between being a winner and winning. - Know your culture.
5 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - Clippers example: Didn't want to look at Lakers fans. Made the arena his arena. Took down Lakers memorabilia. - Coach's job is to get the players to play the best at the same time they are buying into what we are doing. - "Our players learn that they can be stars by buying into their role." Be a star in their role. Talk to them about their importance. The other guys saw that DJ bought into their role, and it helped them buy in. Chris Paul cut his dribbles in half. Trust me on that. Jamal Crawford took two charges. Jamal Crawford made a defensive play and then he was pointing over to the bench like he made a three. Bought in. - Blake Griffin's bad body language. Doc got on him. I don't want your teammates to see you with bad body language. Blake Griffin doesn't like anybody interfering with his job. He works out first and then does the other stuff.
Recap: 1) Organization 2) Culture 3) Players
JJ had huge value in game 2 of the season when James Harden had to chase him around the gym.
Don't make a lot of changes. Add to your core, add to your system.
Wants separation between players. He wants stars to separate themselves from the pack so that the other guys buy in. Chris Paul vs. Jordan Farmar. Normally Jordan is sitting on the bench thinking he is better. Get your best players to be great quick. Austin Rivers at Duke. "I need him to get good quick."
Everyone is a winner when they get to do whatever they want to do. Is that player willing to do something else to be a winner. "If I took the best thing that you do away, how would you help the team?" "Kevin would you sacrifice for this team to win?" - Kevin Garnett was willing to not play anymore if it meant that the team would win. Showed them 12 players on the All Star team that said they wanted to win, but he told the big 3 that "they only wanted to win as long as it was comfortable for them." He made them agree to be uncomfortable if they REALLY wanted to win a championship. Players will buy in even more if you can get them to sacrifice. They'll give you more if they have sacrificed for the team. Ray Allen gave up half of his shots from the year before. His time touching the ball was cut by 62%. Paul Pierce gave up 25% of his shots. Kevin Garnett gave up 25% of shots. All players played a career low in minutes and not one time did they complain. Then everybody else falls in line. Ray Allen committed to defending. When the stars play their role, then everybody else buys in.
Every year in the NBA finals, in the middle of the finals you can see the team that "got it." The team that comes together is the team that wins.
"We blew the game... the refs blew the call, but we blew the game." Our discipline totally changed. Didn't get back on defense. Didn't execute.
If you see it as a coach, you have to stay on it. You can't let it go.
6 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 Have players understand what their shot is. Any time you have your shot, take it. Play within the system, but allow the players to be free. He never told players "bad shot" this year because he didn't want them to start thinking too much.
Execution is the key to winning.
How many times do you have a chance to be a football team? He's a stickler about ATOs. Every timeout you get a chance to re-organize. Everybody on offense moves at the same time. Football culture is extreme attention to detail and coordination. Every day they would draw up plays. He has players draw up plays in practice. They get pissed when a guy messes up and then they know how we feel.
3 things when evaluating players: - Are they willing to play their role? - Competitiveness - Character
Assistant Coaches: Not yes men Loyal Have opinions
If you can take away easy baskets, you'll have a chance to win the game.
After Day 1, they stopped talking about the championship. We all know what we're here for. Now let's focus.
Plan your practices around the players to get around 8 hours of sleep.
Doesn't give rah rah speeches about the game, gives rah rah speeches about the team goal.
Kevin Eastman - 84 Bullet Points
1. Refocus their lens 2. Put gas in their tank when it's appropriate 3. Talent - we don't really want players with talent. We want talented players. The difference is the ED - the extra dimension. Talent plus something: disciplined player, tremendous drive, dedicated to his craft, player who is incredibly focused. 4. 6 things that are important to a doc rivers team 1. Excellence 2. Execution 3. No excuses 4. Do. Your. Job. COMPLETELY. 5. Get over yourself 6. Be a good teammate. More importantly, help a teammate. If you have to push someone down to build yourself up, you can't be in our organization. 5. Success lies in the simplicity. Confusion lives in the sophistication. With confusion doubts, fear, and questions. Keep it simple, please! We don't want stupid in our program.
7 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 6. 4 Relationships that exist in all championship programs 1. The players have to like, respect, and trust the other players 2. The players have to like, respect, and trust the coaches. 3. The coaches have to like, respect, and trust the players. 4. The coaches have to like, respect, and trust each other. 7. How did you get to where you've gotten? 1. I go through my life with big eyes, big ears, and a small mouth. I already know what I know. If all I know is what I know, then I don't know enough. I need to know what you know. The most inquisitive guy was Kevin Garnett. 8. As you go through your coaching career, you have a choice. You can a spectator in life in coaching lessons, or you can be a student of life in coaching lessons. 9. 3 sets that you must be concerned with 1. Skillsets. Are you and your players doing what you need to do to improve your skillsets 2. Mindset. How do you approach each day? How do your players approach each day? Mindset is talked about a lot each day with the Clippers. 3. Reset. Lose a game - reset. Play poorly - reset. Reset is all about honesty in the process. The one person we can't con is ourselves. The day after Miami beat the 10. The best players don't talk a good game, they work a good game. Chris Paul in the post. Tim Duncan the day after a loss. 11. The best of the best you must have these three things: 1. Improvement stamina. How can I get better? Be willing to keep going. 2. Development discipline. They know what they don't know. They know what they're not good at. And what they need to improve. 3. Greatness grind. Coming in every single day. The best of the best understand the concept of every. Every second of every game and on and on. Is your knowledge acquisition an EVERY thing. 12. Whether you're a player or a coach, there are two things you have to make a decision between: entitlement and investment. Teams of entitlement never win titles. Investment in reading. Kevin Eastman reads 2 hours every single of the year. EVERY day of the year. 4 AM is now the time you wake up, not the time you call it a day. Brad Stevens Indianapolis paper - 13 lessons in article. 1. Connected group wins championships. 2. Even keel through a season 3. Wants to be better each day. - Kevin will ask him how he did that. He's the best question asker in the world. 13. 3 types of hours that the best have to understand 1. Long hours 2. Odd hours 3. Surprise hours 14. Be on a mission every day to seek and find. Information! Think and apply. Once we get that stuff, we have to do something with it. Story about how they give away 32 grammy's each year. NBA gives one trophy a year. He took a little article about the grammy's and made it work for his team 15. If you want to be a great coach you must master 4 tions (shuns) 1. Evaluation of talent and character 2. Information - about our players. Intel. 3. Organization - your system, your process. Process driven. It's a grind. You can't get bored with the process. Pound the rock. 4. Communication - 16. The three ins
8 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 1. Buy in - Once you get the buy in you need them to lock in. There is no expiration date on buy in. No expiration date on honesty. No expiration date on being a good teammate. 2. Believe in. Before you get buy in you have to get believe in. How do you get believe in? Trust. Trust needs three things: 1. Time 2. Consistency 3. Proof 3. Give in. Don't confuse it with believe in. Can't win a championship with give ins. Need BUY IN. 17. 3 things we all must do 1. Learn from the past. Occasionally visit. Occasionally learn. Don't live there. 2. Live in the present. 3. Prepare for the future. Scouting report. Career. "We will get you there before you even think you're there." Be there before you get there! Ray Allen hit that shot because he had practice laying on the floor, jumping up, back pedaling to shot and draining it. 18. If you want to be good, you have to spend time at it. 19. There are three starts. Where are your players and where are you? 1. Jump start. 2. Head start. - You may have a head start, but it's a marathon. Who's there at the finish line? 3. Restart. - Get fired? 20. All of us want to be successful. Our players want to be successful. Success is really smart and it's really hard. The one true test it gives us is the toughest test of all - failure. 21. The best teams have to overcome mad, sad, and hard. Mad is selfish. Must get that player over themselves. Sad - team won but he didn't play well. Get over it. Success's greatest test is failure and embarrassment. 22. Myths of success: 1. Hard work is the key. The key is not the right word. Hard work is a given. Hard work is the price of admission. The more successful you get, the price goes up. The separator is the un-required work. The early wake ups. The extra reading. 2. Everyone talks about acquire knowledge. That's the given. It's applying the knowledge. Put it into your life. Success leaves footprints. Find them, follow them, and then fit them. 3. We have been told to network to keep moving up. Networking is a number. You must grow a relationship. That is how you network. When Kevin meets someone, he gives for a full year before he ever asks for anything. "If ever I can help you, just call me. I'll do my best to get it done." 4. Never pass up a basketball opportunity. (not a myth. This is a truth.) 5. In order to be successful, you need to find time. No. You need to MAKE time. 6. Passion. If you have passion you can do whatever you want to do. NO. But at some point, your knowledge and your skills have to catch up to your passion. 7. Coaches moving up: Must choose between how much and who. It's who you're with when you're younger that makes the difference. Choose WHO, not how much. "Does he invest the time necessary to be a great assistant coach." "Is he willing to do the work?" 8. Be ready. NO. Be prepared! Have your system book. What if you get a call tomorrow? Have your game-plan ready. 23. The easiest place to be a leader is on the floor. Who leads in all the other places? 24. At some point in your life you must do this - Write a loved one a letter. Write every possible thing that they need to do to be successful. And then make two copies. One for them when it's their time to receive it. And then keep the other one for yourself. And then go back and study it.
9 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 25. The best aren't scared of competition. To be the best you have to beat the best at their best. 26. Relationship venues with your players - there's more to it than the floor. 27. Every night you have the chance to spend time with the best via YouTube, Ted, Readings, etc. 28. Why is Popovich so good at relationships? If you care, they will give. Pop has his arm around 3-4 players per day. 29. What timezones do you work in? 1. Spare time - I'll do it when I get to it 2. Part time - Every now and then 3. Full time - Now we're getting close 4. All the time - That's the one that separates. 30. Never burn bridges. Build them or maintain them. Even if you get fired. Kill them with class. 31. If you're good enough the money will find you. 32. Know your No's 1. No procrastination - First thing Kevin does in the morning is the thing that day that he will hate to do. Has reframed his vocabulary - no more problems. Challenges and competitions. 33. DOCisms - "He who angers you owns you." "Budget your bitches (complaints)." Limit it to the ones that you need to win in order to win. 34. Assistant Coaches: 90% Evaluation, 10% emotion. Don't jump up and down. Focus. Coach. 35. Coaches have body language too. 36. Role players think you think they suck. Give them little stats to work for. One putback. One sprint ahead. Get fouled and make em. 37. Create buy-in: statistics, film, charting, shots. 38. The easiest thing to have is an open door. They only come in when you have an open heart, open ears, and an open mind. That's where Doc excels. He lets them talk. In order to get into their heads, you must go through their hearts. Go right to the heart to get to the head. Don't go right to the head. 39. When times are tough leadership is about responsibility, not invisibility. 40. If you change your habits you can change your limits. If you change your limits, you can change your life. 41. Fear is a choice.
Overtime Panelists - Eastman, Brendan Suhr, Ed Tapscott, Eastman
What do you look for in a point guard?
1. Basketball IQ - Organize what we are doing on the floor. You coach during the week. On game night you manage the game. You want a good point guard out there who runs the game well. 2. Maximize their talent and then fit their talent into their style. 3. If you are going to be a good defensive team, you have to have a point guard that can control the ball.
You have to learn to be decisive. Make a decision and stick to it. And execute it. It indicates to the people you're leading that you are confident. Be careful of the ready, aim, aim, aim, aim syndrome.
10 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 The more you're around, the more you're going to ask for your opinion. Keep lists of ideas.
What to look for in a big? Clean catches Fight for position and deny position Lateral quickness Communication
What to look for in a wing? All based on the offense and the style of play that the coach wants to run.
What do the best coaches do? - Clear and consistent communication - Adaptability - Creative people. We must entertain them while we educate them. - Organization. Being succinct. Being direct. - Be yourself! Don't try to be someone else. - Be succinct. Coach in bullet points, not in paragraphs. "Back to the area of attack" on screens.
Coaching a team is like flying a plane. There's going to be turbulence, sometimes a lot, but your job is to land the plane.
You can't fool dogs, kids, or nba players.
Basketball is a simple game, but the people, they're complicated, so you need to deal with them.
Day 2 - Kevin Eastman
Coaching Turnovers - Use the ball rack. Every time there's a turnover take that ball out of play. After every turnover their mindset is that they MUST get a stop.
We all have a platform. We must be responsible with that platform.
In order to win, your mind must be clutter free. When the players walk over the line, we must read their body language. "Your body language is my only window into your mind." - Coach Eastman to players.
Doc Rivers wanted the team to talk about the Clippers lack of history. Know our history. Champions are about: - pulling together, not pulling apart - sacrificing for each other, not selfish results - team results, not who gets the results - finding solutions, not placing blame
11 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - building each other up, not tearing each other down - the end result, not their results - competition, not performance. "this is competition, not a performance." The more they talked about lob city in the press, the more the outside world determined what the team's identity was, the worse the team played. - raising their teams emotion, not hijacking their emotions - one agenda, not their agenda - fighting for their team, not with their team
Lessons from the Assistant Coach's seat: - Treat people with respect. Please, thank you, yes no. - Be a learn it all, not a know it all. - Be a great question asker - Do the un-required work - Big eyes, big ears, small mouth - No job too big, no job too small - Know what you don't know. Find those answers! - Never pass up a basketball opportunity - Seek wisdom from those who came before you - Read every day!
When you get that new job, sometimes you have to fake it until you learn it.
Every day he does a 'practice plan for the day'
I should be able to look at two things to know whether you're going to be a success: Your day timer, and your phone. What does your day look like? Who is in your contacts? Are you developing relationships? Body language and appearance are your first chance to make an impression.
What are 1-2 things that you do that nobody else does? - question for Shaka Smart.
Dry erase board with all players names and all coaches names. Go down the list, if this player had a problem in their life, which coach would they come to? Check off for each coach. If there are empty boxes, then you have to develop that relationships.
Two things players always want to know: Why are we doing it and what's in it for me? Meet with them and make sure they know what's in it for them.
Everyone wants to be loved, respected, appreciated, valued, and needed. Are your players getting those?
Are your players coming to grips with the role you're giving them? They don't really use the words "role player." They talk about the value that the guy brings to the team.
12 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 Be an All Star at your role! You may not like your role, but it's what we need from you in order to win a championship. If the guy doesn't buy into his role, then he is saying championships don't mean anything to me.
What is it that you don't know that you should know to get to where you want to go?
Google Jim Rohm: Success is a few simple disciplines done every day. Failure is a few errors in judgement repeated every day. All the "i'll do it tomorrows" add up to nothing.
As you talk to the team, you must observe. Look at the body language. What is their BL telling you? What do they need from you. Read the room!
7 Powerful sentences that doc said to team about Sterling issue:
4 core beliefs that got Doc through the Sterling issue - Every decision he made was based on right and wrong. You can have some emotion, but don't get emotional. When you get emotional, you get irrational. - Always have a care and concern for others. - Total honesty. - The truth stands the test of time and the test of inquiry. - Do your job. Completely.
Why would you let someone else come into your mind and ruin your dreams?
Four C's for the Clippers to change culture: - Character - Class: It is how you operate, not what you cut. It's not about cutting class - Committed: Buy in vs. giving in. Buy in needs to move to lock in. - Communication: never make someone else look dumb because you didn't communicate with them. Talk TO others, not AT others. Talk WITH people, not down to people.
If you fear the consequence of failure, also fear the consequence of never trying.
Culture needs three things: - Direction. What is it? Where are we taking this team? Is this going to get us there? - Commitment. Every day. - People. They have to carry it every day. Every single day.
Any breach of culture has to be confronted immediately.
We walk on and play on one turf. We all share it. We need to combine old school and new school. Combine it all to ONE school. Appreciate both.
Made 7 index cards and put them into two groups. One word on index cards - Staff - Players - Employees - Fans
13 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 Put them in the order from most important to least important: Players, staff, employees, fans. Then let's prioritize our decisions in that order.
Other three cards: - Revenue - First class reputation - Championships
Correct Order: Championships, first class organization, revenue. All of our decisions are based on what's most important. It's not what's best for the player, it's what's best for the team.
Coach to player: We don't become you, you become us. You've got to mold yourself into the team.
Handling winning is a lot harder than handling losing. How do we handle winning? False sense of confidence. State of complacency. Allowed us to say "We'll get to that." Losing focuses, and makes us more driven. Tell me the one thing that keeps us from repeating championships: role players. They're the ones that want an even greater role next year. Best players will stay your best players, but you have to watch out for your 6-10 who want a bigger piece of the pie.
Pop coaches hard, how does he do that? "If you want to coach hard, relationships come first." Every practice Pop has his arm around multiple players.
Don't put boundaries on talent.
Make sure their people (the players) get to see them. The championship trophy is being taken to the home town of every player.
You must answer the question "What works for you." The best teams discipline themselves to what works for them.
The best players: - see the game like a head coach. PG has to see the game the same way. - Invest. Kobe Bryant "I don't workout, I blackout." Everybody else is working out, I have to do something extra. What is the un-reqiured work. - Have the best habits. Work they do. Food they eat. Sleep. Rehab. It's not just habits on the floor. - Practice habits match up with the goals they set. - Expectations and their demands of their coaches and themselves. - Never short-change themselves by letting outside interests short-change their inside responsibilities. - Will listen to anyone who can help them get better. - Are built for the grind. Don't have to like it. - To be free on the floor, you have to go through the monotony of repetition. "You get your rep through your reps." You want a reputation? Start doing the things you need to do on your own. - "Coach, I may not always get my numbers, but I promise you I will have an impact on the game. I'll find a way to impact it." - Kevin Garnett
14 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - Inner drive greater than the outside expectations put on them. - "The best part of being #1 is that I have to earn it every day." - Tiger Woods - "I know what he did, but were his intentions right?" Then we can deal with that mistake for that player. - KG, CP had a way of including players that didn't get in the spotlight. In post game interview or otherwise, they look to build up others. I'm here to complement you.
When facing big games: preparation trumps pressure.
Go out there with a kid's enthusiasm, but an adult's seriousness and focus. It's OKAY tonight and in your life to go out there and give 100% and come up short. Can't lie to them and say we are better when it's not true. Have to tell them to give it everything and it's okay if it's not enough.
Players have to play with emotion, but they can't get emotional.
Have to be ready to work, but prepared to win.
The best teams, you can hear their practices. Voices talk and the sneakers squeak. Communication.
5 on 0 skeleton offense - for setting screens, must hear the sneakers squeak.
Don't just do the drill, invest in the drill.
The best players live in the world of ownership, not in excuses.
Great thing to do going to each new year is to make sure you start before you start. Coach K flew and spoke to players prior to the first practice. Talk with players before each year, especially potential issues.
Bilities: If you do these things you will be successful - Credibility: can we believe you? - Responsibility: Do the job you've been given. Do the job you've chosen. - Accountability: Take ownership of your choices and actions. - Adaptability: Are you changing with the game? As you change, you have to make it work while you see if it works. - Dependability: - Greatest one of all: Availability: Are you there every day?
Dave Severens - Player Development
Must develop mental toughness!
You cannot grow and work with a player until you have a relationship with them. Five factors that grow that relationship:
15 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - Care about the players. They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. - Knowledgeable. Understand their game. Understand how their game fits within the system of their team. - Sweat equity. Have to be willing to sweat with the players as you work with them. - Availability. 24/7 if you want to develop the top guys. - Trust. If you have the first four, you will build trust.
Really important that younger coaches have mentors. Have a committee of people you can go to with questions.
Read Tates Locke book.. couldn't hear title.
Defensive calls must be early, loud, and continuous.
The shot is in the pass. Good pass, good shot.
Catch and shoot drill with cones is good. Defense chases from block and must go around cone in corner. Offense starts in corner.
Start from the place where you assume they know nothing.
In pivoting Shooting foot free as much as possible - same foot as your shooting foot. Essentially permanent pivot foot.
You make layups with your eyes.
Finish off two feet. Don't have to land on feet evenly before takeoff.
Triple threat on the weak hip, rather than the strong hip.
On pivot on wing and in post you have to create space with your pivot foot. Either reverse pivot or open pivot plus a jab between the legs.
In drills - have the winner validate with a free throw.
Any conditioning should be done with a skill.
When players walk into the locker room they should see the quote of the day and the plan for the day.
Brendan Suhr
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Three most important things on offense in pick and roll 1. Who has the ball? - What can the player do? The way you design your offense is by who has the ball. 2. Who is setting the screen? 3. What's the angle? If you're only using two angles, you're limiting yourself. Side, middle, elbow, flat. If you hedge or blitz elbow ball screens you will give up a layup every time.
Adjust your offense to attack the defense
Defense: Hedge & show Blitz Switch Jam Zone - person guarding the screener hangs back Ice
The key to teaching pick and roll offense is to provide solutions for your players. If a player is getting blitzed, it's your job to find options for him. You have to build your offense on the coverage of your defense.
If we can set a surprise ball screen in transition, it throws off the defensive coverages. Drag screen in transition is example. Double drag is another example.
Passes must be on time, on target.
When coming off a ball screen, come off to score. Use two dribbles to create space. Billy Donovan wants two players to guard the ball.
George Karl - Offensive Concepts and Dealing with the Media
George spent most of the time referencing a Gaps offense that he didn't show much. System is Vance Walberg's. Wings sprint to corners, post goes to the rim in transition and gets out of the way. PG attack the paint. Last man up fills the other guard behind.
If you want to play fast, you have to change how you coach. Execution is not the first priority. Spacing is the first priority. Must team your team HOW to play, not what to run. Teach your team how to find a defensive mistake and how to make them pay.
When training camp starts you need to teach pace, spacing, and how to attack the defense.
Spacing begins on the defensive rebound.
The best way to teach it is to make the 24 second clock a 16 second clock and then make it 13.
17 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 Most important thing is a big guy who runs rim to run and if he doesn't get it, then he gets out of the way.
To play fast and aggressive, takes a coaching commitment on a daily basis. You have to have structure in your practice that demands spacing and playing fast.
Attack and Make SIMPLE, EASY, basketball plays. When you attack the paint, a missed shot becomes a pretty good offensive play. Even though the Spurs didn't run, this is what they did.
If you want to play fast, you have to have an aggressive defensive style.
Philosophically, there needs to be balance between offense and defense. Can't be 85/15.
In the Gap Offense, George Karl asked Ty Lawson to dribble the ball in the paint 40 times a game.
Get out of the way of the ball and let it attack.
In order to run, your first 20 practices, you can't put a lot of plays in.
"Always play against a team that's in recovery" - Chuck Daly. The defense is in recovery in transition defense. Play before the defense is set. Create turnovers, create pace, create action. On missed shots, you demand that your team runs.
Sometimes having your second trailer as your best penetrator can be a great thing.
Get your big guy underneath the defense.
Best shots in basketball: layups, free throws, and threes. 25 layups, 25 assists, 25 free throws, make 10 threes you can't lose.
If you can shoot the three, rebound the three, and defend the three, you have a good chance.
Shot selection is KEY. Must teach shot selection. San Antonio beats you because they get the shots they want and they get better shots than you.
Don't need specific personnel, just need a coach who owns it. Focus on the system early in practice and THEN put your plays in. You can't teach plays and teach running at the same time. If you want to run, then you have to teach running.
Vance Walberg has tapes on this gap offense.
A bad defender closing out on a good offensive player is a good play.
San Antonio has a one second rule. You can't have the ball for more than one second.
It wears teams out. They can cover you early in the game, but then late in the game they can't stay with you.
60-70% of possessions should result in paint touches.
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Go - catch. Get your body moving toward the basket before you receive the ball. Don't catch and then go.
NBA is moving toward multiple point guards. Two guys that can make a read when the defense makes a mistake.
Must work on transition defense because you have shooters in corners and ball going to the rim.
Look for double gaps. Attack double gaps off the dribble every time.
We LOVE the layup, we like the three.
On the drive if the player in the corner sees the back of his defender's head, he back cuts. If that player over helps, he lifts. Corner catch is either a shot or attack.
Know what you are going to do before you catch it.
It's how you play, not how well you play.
On penetration, if your man has helped to the ball you have to go crash the boards. Not floating bigs out for 15 footers. They are going to the rim. When you are shooting a contested drive, don't let the shot get blocked. Get it up to the rim and let the bigs go get the offensive rebound.
"Just because you talk with a player doesn't mean you connect with a player."
Good coaches are good teachers. Basketball and life.
If you can't handle this statement, don't go into coaching: Players win games, coaches lose games.
Don't say 'I' in the media. The players want the spotlight. They don't want you to have the spotlight.
Delegating to good assistant coaches is important. It's a different voice, different vocabulary. Karl will only coach 5 on 5 situations in the future. Will delegate the rest to assistants.
When Karl gets his next job the first guy he is going to hire is the guy who is going to create the right culture in the gym. The gym needs to be safe, and have energy.
Basketball is a team game. Today's player is going away from that. Need to have guys that build each other up.
Brendan Suhr
19 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 All of offense is predicated on reading the defense.
If defense goes under on screen, move the screen down, or come set a second screen that is low.
If the defense is blitzing or hedging, the ball handler is not getting a shot.
If the defense is switching, then we play the slip game. Shooters slip to the corner. Bigs slip to the rim. Slip early and don't set the pick.
Set a pick and sprint to the rim. Got rid of rolling technique. Sprint to the rim.
Bruce Pearl is 1-3-1 trapping BLOBs.
If you are playing against a really special kid, you owe it to your team to make some changes to help them get a stop. You can't have a philosophy that you are so in love with that you let your team get their ass kicked.
The Carpenter - Jon Gordon - Love, Serve, and Care.
Don't just do your job. Be a craftsman in your job. Create masterpieces. Be the very best at what you do. Whether you stay one month or ten years, the best work you've ever done should happen in the job you're in right now.
Make your atmosphere very positive.
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