3 Areas That Coaches Build

Three Areas That Coaches Develop and Build
1.  Build Vision
2.  Build People
3.  Build Accountability and Responsibility

Coaches Should Create Environments Where Learning Is Valued

Coaches Should Create Environments Where Learning Is Valued Coaching isn’t just technique or strategy. Coaches should acquaint themselves with the kinds of thinking patterns that help athletes perform more effectively; understand obstacles that inhibit performance; determine which practice patterns work best—for the individual and the team. In other words, he should learn about the mental and physical aspects of the sport and the athlete—and create an atmosphere in which the athlete is encouraged to learn as well. --H.A. Dorfman, “Coaching The Mental Game”

Overcoached & Undertaught--Pete Carril Distinguishes Between Coaching & Teaching

Difference Between Coaching & Teaching

“There is a difference between teaching and coaching. When you are instructing your team about the actual game, you are teaching them, transmitting knowledge and information to them. There are guys who don’t teach their players anything or much of anything, but who go around and recruit the best players and win—they’re coaches but not teachers.”
--Pete Carril

Joe Paterno's Thoughts on Coaching/ Teaching

From Joe Paterno:

Basic Beliefs
1. The Coach is a Teacher, not a Strategist.
a. Coaching is one thing. It is creating in practice the situation the player will face in the game, and then repeating it until he can react by rote memory.

2. Have a directed work effort toward constructive things.

3. Performance is what counts.
a. Potential makes no difference.
b. Don't ever get sold on what defeats the teams you can beat anyway. Devote yourself only to those plays which will win the championship game for you.
c. Practice to beat great teams.

4. Consistency
a. Team that wins is the team that makes the fewest number of bad plays.
b. The best player is the player who makes the fewest bad individual plays.

Thoughts On Being A Great Coach

1. Team is an extension of the coaching staff
2. Each year improve every aspect of your program
3. Evaluate every year as your first year on the job
4. Teach team roles and coach them
5. Teach kids courtesy
6. Know players and what it takes to motivate
7. Don’t sit behind a desk and be judge, jury and executioner.
8. Touch 1/3 of the team daily
9. Make % plays vs Non % plays
10. Get past failure. Teach yourself and kids
11. Get past success
12. Be careful how you treat people
13. Ways to keep a team on edge
14. Be responsible for team
15. How can we lose? Then look for ways to win.
16. Think win all the time.
17. Can’t wait forever for potential.

Bird Watching

I just wanted to pass along a few of the notes I have from Larry Bird's book, "Bird Watching".

1. Less screaming in games.
2. Mix up how you deal with the team, can't yell all the time, it loses is effectiveness.
3. In the NBA, the 3rd quarter is the key to the game and you can't afford for the team to spend 5 minutes recovering from half-time.
4. Score after every timeout.
5. Bird expected the team to be very aggressive on the offensive glass.
6. Find three players each night who are playing well.