Kevin Eastman Basketball Training Notes
1. Championship behavior.
2. 2 types of players and coaches – know it all’s and learn it all’s.
3. You’re either a spectator or a sponge.
4. Players must always be concerned about skill development. Coaches must always be concerned about knowledge development.
5. The best players are self-absorbed when it comes to individual development. However, they become team absorbed when it comes to playing the game. The best coaches are knowledge absorbed.
6. Defense term: games are won on the strong side of the floor defensively. Championships are won on the weak side of the floor.
7. Defense is multiple efforts.
8. Offense is multiple options. (keep them on one side of the floor)
9. Adjustments: first – do it harder, then do it better, then we bub, then we think of changing.
10. Use “one more” to get another pass going. If a player says that – he must be open and the ball must move to him.
11. Defensive “one more” – finish your defensive slide. One more effort. 50/50 balls – we wanna win 70% of 50/50 situations.
12. 4 most important words in coaching: shit, it ain’t working. This is a game of adjustments.
13. Simplicity – keep it simple and demand that they do it harder, better and so on.
14. Success lies in the simplicity – confusion lies in the sophistication.
15. A hesitant athlete is a non-athlete.
16. If you want to go fast – go alone. If you want to go far – go together.
17. Teamwork divides the effort – teamwork adds to the efficiency – teamwork subtracts the selfishness –
18. New knowledge + sustained thought + personal experiences = personal wisdom
19. The best don’t make excuses. The best recognize mistakes. The best commit to trying to never repeat those mistakes.
20. If all the last 3 does properly – everyone gets rewards. | Kevin Eastman Basketball Training Notes
21. A message is only a message if it’s 1. Received and 2. Acted upon.
22. When the best meet the best – execution decides the winner.
23. Details determine destination.
24. Success is not a game of perfect. Coaching is not a profession of perfect.
25. When you combine passion with new knowledge, you continue to grow, and I never wanna stop growing. – Coach K.
26. Success leaves footprints. Find them, follow them, and then fit them.
27. The best leaders put their arm around you and take you with them. Walk together. Set an example. Before they require their team to do it – they do it.
28. Be there before you get there – you must have a vision of what you want to do in order to succeed in it.
29. Success doesn’t stop once you get there. –MJ.
30. 3 things for success: Big eyes, big ears, and small mouth. Sit down, shut up, and learn.
31. Networking – invest in myself, but not by myself.
32. MJ: I can’t score 32 PPG. If I go in thinking of that I know I’m gonna force shots. I just try and get 8 points a quarter. (Other examples: Get 2 rebounds in between time outs, shoot 1 perfect form shot 500 times)
33. Kobe Bryant – I don’t work out. If everybody is working out and I work out – we’re the same. I don’t work out. I go so hard I black out. The best go a little longer, they do a little more.
34. Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don’t wanna do.
Create an environment | Kevin Eastman Basketball Training Notes
A champion’s DNA:
1. The culture that you create.
2. The standards that you set.
3. Success checks that creates your mindset for players and coaches.
4. The core.
5. The people or talent that you have.
6. The leadership.
Culture | Kevin Eastman Basketball Training Notes
1. Success – winning. If we make a decision is about the team to win – not them. Go over roles with players in front of them. You might not like your role, but that’s the role we need from you to win a championship. He can’t refuse it in front of everyone.
2. Accountability – to the team and to themselves.
3. Personal sacrifice – championships are WE driven, NOT ME driven. “There’s a lot more “me” than “me” nt. We need more “we”…
4. If you violate our culture – we call you out on it in front of everyone.
Standards: who we want to be and how we want to operate (Let the players create them) | Kevin Eastman Basketball Training Notes
1. Execution – be the best executing team in the league.
2. Be the best team on the league in the little things
3. No excuses –
4. One way – one way to do things. Can’t do your own thing if you wanna win a championship. (Define it well).
5. No personal agendas – also no clique agendas.
Success checks | Kevin Eastman Basketball Training Notes
1. Passion – it’s contagious. People see passion, people feel passion, most importantly – people follow passion.
2. Study success – seek wisdom from those who came before you. Success leaves footprints. Find them, follow them, and then fit them.
3. Get past hard – if you have a team that uses the word “It’s” to much you’re gonna lose. It’s too hard, it’s not my role; it’s not my job. It’s stands for: Impossible To Succeed. Once you begin to blame – you’re gonna lose that game.
4. Self-evaluate – if you wanna be the best, the one person you can never con is yourself.
5. Are you entitled or are you investing – team of entitlement NEVER win titles.
6. Embrace the c’s: Culture, Competition (In order to be the best, you have to beat the best at their best), and Change (1. If we fight it – you fight our future. 2. If you fight our future – you fight our success. 3. You gotta make it work to see if it works).
The Core | Kevin Eastman Basketball Training Notes
1. Commitment – there’s no expiration date on commitment. You’re committed or you’re not. You’re in or you’re out.
2. Work ethic – we know you have a strong work ethic if you work on the days you don’t feel like working.
3. Sacrifice – there’s a price to pay for every seat you’d like to occupy. The price is everything that must be done to sit in that seat and stay in that seat.
The people or talent you have | Kevin Eastman Basketball Training Notes
1. There are players with talent and talented players. We want 3D players. An extra dimension is teamwork. You can have the same uniform but you might not be a team. Until you are willing to give up yourself for the betterment of the team you are not a team.
2. Players with “Abilities”:
1. Accountability – what you must do with the role you were given.
2. Responsibility – do your job completely. Don’t do someone else’s job or your half way. that doesn’t mean you can’t do some extra work (Great players do the unrequired work)
3. Reliability – are you reliable in every game.
4. Availability – are you available to us every night?
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