Brad Stevens On TEAM

There's talent all over the nation. If a Team really comes together and really executes, you can beat a team on any given night. --Brad Stevens

Brad Stevens 6 Principles That Make Up Their Defensive DNA

Brad Stevens 6 Defensive Principles That Make Up Butler’s Defensive DNA
1. Commitment
2. Positioning
3. Prioritization
4. Awareness
5. Execution/ Technique
6. Completion

Thoughts From Butler Head Coach Brad Stevens

Thoughts From Brad Stevens:

1. Understand and believe in greater good.
2. Thad Matta told him to think like a head coach every day, even when he was the director of operations.
3. Learn, Watch, Listen
4. Take lots of time planning practice
5. Doesn’t talk about goals, instead talks about the process.
6. As a head coach, just be yourself.
7. Be authentic.
8. “Soar with your strengths.”
9. Believes in short precise workouts. “Deep practice philosophy”
10. Teach them specific things that are applicable for success on the floor.
11. Come up with new challenges daily, get them to try to achieve something.
12. Every player, every practice has to get up 100 shots in practice, this doesn’t include pre or post practice.