Can Someone Help Me Understand?
Can someone help me understand? For most of my life, I have been pretty much secluded from the mainstream. Growing up in a secluded rural town before the internet, I didn’t really know much about the world. Then for the next half of my life, being in environments that very few people get to experience, […]
Choose Lonely (if you want to be great)
“You have to choose to be alone
If you’re going to change the world.”
If you want to choose greatness, you must choose to be lonely.
Let Them Fail
Why don’t we let them fail? Why do we pretend that our kids aren’t human? Why do we try to protect them from the struggle? The truth is we all fail, we all struggle, and we are all human. Pretending like we are anything else makes the fall even harder when it inevitably happens. If […]
Basketball Near Me
When I go to Google and I search Basketball Near Me, I shake my head. When I think about all of the wasted time and money spent with these “organizations”, it makes me question whether what we’re doing is beneficial. When I think about what we do and how we do things, I know that […]
What is Important to You?
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 […]
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 […]
Feel Sorry for Winners
When the scoreboard says 91-9 or something similar, I feel sorry for the winners, not the losers.
Coaching Youth Basketball
Coaching youth basketball is many times a volunteer service. Coaches don’t get paid or at least not enough to make it their full-time job. Teams might practice one or two days a week for an hour. Games are every Saturday for a couple of months. It’s not that serious, right? Let’s even say middle school […]
How Much Do We Love?
Donald Miller gives a great perspective on love. I don’t know if he knows anything about basketball or coaching, but he gives us something to think about. “But love doesn’t control, and I suppose that’s why it’s the ultimate risk. In the end, we have to hope the person we’re giving our heart to won’t […]
The Process: Conclusion Part 6
The process is so important in the development of our players and our team. We talk about the process with our players. We want them to practice hard. We want them to get better with every repetition. We want them to focus on the task at hand no matter what it is. Do we live […]
