HOW TO BE A SUCCESFUL BASKETBALL COACH

BASKETBALL COACHING PHILOSOPHY

Coaching philosophy is an important ingredient that all coaches utilize. Whether they know it or not.

It’s important to recognize, embrace, and refine your coaching philosophy. It will guide you, keep you on the right track, give your team an identity, and make you a better coach.

All great coaches eventually acknowledge, reflect upon, and embrace their philosophy. You could say it becomes their “formula for success”.

For most coaches, their philosophy will change as they get more experience. This is a good thing. This is how you grow and improve as a coach.

There is no right or wrong philosophy. Every coach must have philosophy that fits their personality and beliefs.

But it is important for you to reflect on your philosophy, document it, and continually try to improve it.

ESTABLISHING YOUR PHILOSOPHY AND PRIORITIES

To be an effective basketball coach, the first thing you need to do is establish your philosophy and priorities.

This might sound silly. Nevertheless, this very important step allows you to apply very effective coaching techniques.

Here’s how it works..

You see, the most effective way to get the result you want is to emphasize the “right” things.

It’s all about what you emphasize!

Players really notice this.

If you consistently emphasize and talk about rebounding, passing the ball, and playing the right way, then you are players will pick up on those things.

For example : At the very first team meeting, you might want to tell your players that you already know who two of the starters will be. The first starter will be the best defensive player on the team. And the second starter will be the best rebounder on the team. (This will get their attention!)

It’s all about what you emphasize! If you are constantly talking about rebounding, your players will pick up on that and become good rebounders.

You will notice that they start talking about it. They might say something to another teammate like, “Hey, make sure you block out and get the rebound!” Or you might hear, “Hey coach, how many rebounds did I get today?”

If you constantly emphasize rebounding and defense, then you will probably have a team that is really good at defense and rebounding.

This concept is very simple, yet extremely important and very powerful.

Most coaches make the mistake of emphasizing the wrong things or emphasizing too many things. They end up getting poor results.

I know everything seems important but you just can’t emphasize everything.

It’s  much more effective if you pick a few important things and primarily focus on those things.

In the business world, we use a similar concept. We often talk about “Focusing on the critical few, versus the trivial many.” Whether it’s business or basketball, it’s an effective concept

DECIDE WHAT WILL BE TO EMPHASIZE !

Here’s what you need to do..

Ask your self a few questions.

1.      What are your coaching goals?

2.      What are the most important things for you to teach?

3.      What do you really want your players to get out of this experience?

4.      What does your team need to be really good at to be succesful?

5.      How will you define a successful season or team?

Write down whatever comes to mind.

It’s important to get this stuff on paper because you will ultimately need to document these things and give it to your players.

To give you some ideas, here are a few things you might want to emphasize.

1.      Playing the right way;

2.      Defense;

3.      Teamwork;

4.      Rebounding;

Now let’s take things a step further.

Source : Coach Jeff Haefner

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