Managing Your Basketball Team Health Throughout a Season by John Mietus While we as coaches have only limited control over the health of our players, we are capable of minimizing the risk players endure over the course of a season. Here are a few ways to promote good basketball team health within a program: 1. …
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Rethinking AAU Basketball by John Mietus Instead of demonizing AAU basketball as corrupt and abusive while lauding high school basketball as pure and righteous, let’s examine them both individually and compare the benefits of each. AAU Basketball: Positives: 1. Visibility to scouts and recruiting services 2. Travel and access to better competition Negatives: 1. Greed …
Examining Stephen Curry Golden State Warriors playing by Chris Filios The Stephen Curry Golden State Warriors went 2-1 this past week with wins over the Denver Nuggets & Portland Trail Blazers but had a tough loss to the Memphis Grizzlies in which they blew a 24 point lead in the second half only to lose …
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Clemson Tigers Football | Dabo Swinney – Believe and Love What a game that the Clemson Tigers Football team gave the nation last night. Alabama was good too, but you had to give Dabo Swinney the nod last night. X’s and O’s had a factor in the game, but it had to do with “Love” …
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What We All Can Learn From Grayson Allen and Mike Krzyzewski by John Mietus Many of us in the basketball coaching community heard about the tripping incident this past month featuring Duke guard Grayson Allen and its fallout for head coach Mike Krzyzewski and the Duke program. The incident sparked furor about Allen’s behavior on …
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What is one of the best basketball training aids out there? Ask For More, Get It by John Mietus What is one of the best basketball training aids out there? When a sportswriter asked the great boxer Muhammad Ali how many push-ups he did for training, Ali responded, “I don’t know. I only start to …
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The Answer is Figure It Out by John Mietus One of the hardest lessons to take in as a coach is that we are only guides on the journey of our players. When the Sherpas take climbers to the top of Mount Everest they do not hold the climbers’ hands or physically push the climbers …
Will Wade: “You’re in the total wrong frame of mind when you get on the bus” by Chris Filios Sound bite of the week comes from Virginia Commonwealth Head Basketball Coach Will Wade: “We had two guys that didn’t wear VCU issued gear on the flight” by Will Wade. They wore their own, stylish whatever-it-may-be. …
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