Kids Should Play 3 on 3

3 on 3

Kids should play 3 on 3 basketball simply because there are fewer players on the court. Your next statement might accuse me of being Captain Obvious in the Hotels.com commercial. Of course, there are fewer players, but that doesn’t tell me WHY kids should play 3 on 3 instead of 5 on 5. After all, […]

What is Important to You?

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What is important to you? Whether I was recruiting athletes, coaching them, or now training them, this is the one question that so often goes unanswered. It’s so scary for me when this happens. Let’s be clear. While basketball seems to be at the center of everything for us, it really isn’t at all. It’s […]

Evaluate Your “AAU” Program

Parents and Players,Please evaluate your “AAU” program. You are spending considerable money paying for practices, tournaments, uniforms, shoes, book bags, hotel rooms, food, warm-ups, and other frivolous items. You’re spending considerable time running to practices, tournaments, fundraisers and who knows what else. All because everyone has told you that you have to play AAU. Let […]

We Love Winners

I'm a Winner

We love winners because winners make us better. We’ve said many times, we don’t care who we work with. We don’t care if you’re young or old. We don’t care if you’re good or not. All of that is still true. But the more we learn, and the more people we’re around, there is one […]

Crazy is Better Than Lazy

From what I can tell there are 3 types of people in this world.  Crazy, normal, and lazy. Crazy is better than lazy. Normal is ok I guess, but it’s just boring. For the last 6 months, we knew a lot of our clients looked at us like we were crazy. For weeks, we were […]

What is “Small Ball”?

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What is “small ball”?   The game of basketball looks a lot different now than it did 10 years ago. It used to be that if you were 6’9” you played in the post. Then Magic came along and changed that. Then 7 footers were post players and then Dirk changed that. Then KD took […]

Look In the Mirror

How often do you look in the mirror? When you do, what do you see? Do you see the real you? Do you put yourself down? Or do you think too much of yourself? The great thing about the mirror is that it shows who we are right now or at least it shows us […]

Playing NCAA Division 1

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When I hear players say that they want to play NCAA Division 1, I have one question. “Why?” Here are some of the answers I get. 1. I want to play at the highest level.2. I want to play against the best players.3. I want to go to school for free.4. I want to be […]

The Games Within the Game

Game Within The Game

There are a lot of games within the game of basketball.  Can we please stop acting like it’s all the same?  Yes the objectives of the game are the same. For the most part, the rules of the game are similar. However, there are differences in every team, even the ones at the same level. […]

Feel Sorry for Winners

When the scoreboard says 91-9 or something similar, I feel sorry for the winners, not the losers.