About a week ago, I was speaking with a coach over the phone and he made a comment that the more I thought about it, the more interesting it became to me. He was saying how he only had a short period of time to practice, and that he, “really needs to work on his plays.” I did not think much of it during the course of our conversation but then I thought more about it afterward I was a little concerned. The reason?
I need to work on my plays…
An Old Dog Really Can Learn New Tricks
It is not often that I get emails from people looking for basketball skill development that are in their 50′s let alone from someone who also just had hip replacement surgery. So, needless to say I had to read this over a few times just to make sure I was getting it right. So I called him back that day, but not before figuring out what the Maccabi games are.
How Much do You Know About College Planning?
I recently drove out to western New Jersey to meet with a potential college baseball player and his mother while they were at a baseball showcase. I was there to discuss the college planning process. As I sat down across the table from them, the first question I asked was, “What do you know about the college planning process and college recruiting?” Their answer, “Nothing.”
Is Ballhandling Important?
A really interesting topic came up this week on one of the coaches’ forums that I subscribe to and I felt the need to address it on this site. We had been spending a few days discussing ball handling drills and giving each other ideas on how to make their basketball players better ball handlers. Then, today one of the coaches posed this question, ” have read a few things lately that say we as coaches are putting way too much emphasis on ballhandling drills and not concentrating on shooting, etc. Wonder what many of you think?”
Are you Competing?
Last weekend at one of my skills sessions, we had one of the best workouts of the early fall season. The workout flowed seemlessly from one drill to the next as my players pushed themselves to the limit with their ballhandling and attacking drills. However, it was the shooting drills that took the workout to a whole new level.
