Until recently the only coffee options we have had were to use the seed of the coffee plant or using the roasted bean. Unfortunately coffee growers threw away the red fruit of the coffee plant because they didn’t know how to use it and it would rot quickly.

Another interesting thought posed by Kevin Eastman at the Coaching U clinic that I attended last fall was what would or should be heard by a blind man in your basketball gym. The interesting thing is that seeing someone do something is one thing, but hearing is something entirely different.

Passing is the most underrated skill that a basketball player can have. Simply stated, there are not that many players that really pass the ball well anymore, and to find an entire team that can pass well would take some serious searching. This has become evident to me, from watching my own team play but also from watching the teams that we play against and even from watching college basketball. There are just too many players out there floating their passes, or jumping to pass, or just plain old throwing the ball all over the gym.

Whether you’re a competitive athlete or committed exerciser, at some point you’ve probably experienced excessive fatigue and muscle soreness following your workout. Sometimes this tiredness can hold you back from working out as hard as you’d like for many days. In order to reduce this feeling of delayed recovery and allow your body to get back into the game sooner than later, you need to appreciate the importance of proper exercise nutrition.

Transition defense is an incredibly important aspect of defense in basketball, but it is also the most overlooked. Basketball coaches almost take for granted that their players will simply get back on defense and prevent their opposition from scoring. However, this is not always the case and there is a significant amount of strategy and technique that goes into how transition defense should be played.