Geno Auriemma – Inside a Championship Program
– Theres two kind of coaches in the world: Those that coach great players and ex-coaches
– If you want to do this for a long time you have to get great players, or to turn good into great.
– When Geno took over he found out several things as to why they were 9-19.
– No expectations
– No locker room
– Nothin ‘nice’
– Didn’t travel the right way.
– They expected to lose because they expectations were for losing.
– Established certain things right from the beginning:
– You have to dress a certain way.
– If you don’t go to class, or go to study hall, you don’t practice.
Geno Auriemma – Inside a Championship Program
– Start out recruiting good kids who want to buy in, who treat each other well, who go to class, etc. That way when the big names come to visit you have a quality program to show them.
– You don’t need the best players to win. Just having one isn’t enough, though.
– Don’t be working for your next job. If you want another job, be great at the one you have.
– Offensively what is important?
– Quickness: quick minds, quick eyes, quick hands, quick feet. These are good basketball players! Think quickly, move quickly, react quickly.
– Basketball players have to be able to catch, dribble, pass, shoot, and a willingness to play D. We aren’t specialists. The game has changed. Everyone has to be able to do all five. Foreign influence has players who can do it all.
Geno Auriemma – Inside a Championship Program
– Pace of play: When you ask kids to go half court and back and full court and back, they go, but they go at their pace. They have their pace, and coaches have their pace. Every drill you do needs to be at the coach’s pace. Playing at the coach’s pace makes them as good as they’re going to be. Playing at their comfort speed and they will be limited by their expectations.
– First thing they do is teach them how to do the things they don’t really want to do. How to set a good screen: The longer you wait the better it gets! The defense decides what they’re going to do and then we respond. He either has to foul or there wont be help from big guy. GRAB THE SCREENER AND HOLD OFF THE DEFENSE. After you force your defender on your hip, go toward the ball and then the screener gets a layup.
– Do drills that mirror your offense.
– Spend 30-45 minutes a day making shots. It doesn’t matter how good your plays are if you can’t make shots. If you only practice 15 minutes tomorrow and then we have to play a game, what would you do? SHOOT! Spend a lot of time every day shooting the ball. Not shooting drills, but out of the offense. All shooting drills are out offense.
– Every passing and shooting drill is 50 years old – passing drill shooting drill and part of offense.
– Triangle offense concept: Read line concept. Point crosses half the ball and has about five feet before he must make decision. The four in the two guard trailer spot crosses half court at same time. If we don’t have wing pass we start guard to guard.
Geno Auriemma – Inside a Championship Program
– Every time you cut, cut like you’re getting a layup. Coach – coach like he’s getting a layup.
– In this passing drill that simulates triangle he puts defenders on best two players to help them learn to get open. Creates awareness of who are we trying to get shots for.
– Always trying to play 3 on 3 on one side and then leave best 2 players on weak side and let them play 2 on 2.
– The best way is if you like what somebody does is to go watch them practice. If you want to steal something, go watch them practice.
– If you don’t know it, don’t try to teach it.
– When you come up hard on people, they go by you. If you don’t close out all the way, then they shoot. Use your defense to create doubt about what the offense should do. They pack the paint and stunt at ball.
– No threes no fouls.
Geno Auriemma – Inside a Championship Program
– Did we win the game because we were great or because they weren’t any good?
– We want to be great every game. Win the game because we execute.
– The most important thing a person can know is what they don’t know.
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