Being Honest With Players
Communicating with a player can sometimes be a delicate balancing act. I need to be honest with them, but I also need to be compassionate
Communicating with a player can sometimes be a delicate balancing act. I need to be honest with them, but I also need to be compassionate
A few years ago I had a young coach I was mentoring. He was a former player of mine and was working with one high
Our bodies lie to us. What we FEEL isn’t always accurate. I’m sure you’ve had an experience like this.This was my experience. I used to
Let me describe a story to illustrate what is possible. Its one of my favourite stories and it is 100% true. I had a college
My job is to be relentlessly positive. The people I get to work with have to get better at something, but we need to view
This is one of my favourite newsletters to write. It’s something that I’ve never seen anyone else write about or talk about, and I think
Like most questions, there isn’t a definitive answer to “how many shots should I be shooting if I want to be great?”My stock answer to
It is really hard to reverse engineer a jump shot. I believe that the logic of “just copy what the best shooters do” is flawed
When I worked for one NBA team, Chad Forcier was the lead assistant coach. Chad was one of the best I’d been around for doing
Remember one of the first emails that I sent to you, where we talked about positive and negative power?We discovered that energy at the target
“I’m already a good shooter for my age, I know I have some bad habits, but I make shots. Do I still need to change
This is a question I get all the time on social media.“Coach, can you give me a good shooting workout?”The real answer is, NO. Not
I had a checklist of habits that I made up years ago so that I quickly evaluate a player’s shot in a ‘try-out’ or ‘NBA
Our biggest goals in creating our shooting habits are to form simple, repeatable habits, and to give ourselves the highest likelihood of of success in
I’ve referred to this a couple of times in the newsletter, but I’ll say it again.Shooting is mostly just simple physics mixed with a little