Four Winning Strategies For the New Season

Each new basketball seasons brings with it a different set of challenges. To stay sharp, I encourage coaches to look for new ways to maximize their opportunities to win games. This article highlights three strategies that can be employed to improve as a coach and optimize your results.

As your coaching career rolls along it is natural to get set in your ways. I challenge you to look at your philosophies and teaching methods each season and entertain new ways of coaching basketball. Personal improvement and productivity can lead to amazing results you could never imagine. This out of the box type of thinking and call to action can make a huge difference in your upcoming season.

My top bit of advice is to develop your own coaching TOP 3. Establish exactly what they are and how to integrate them into your overall coaching philosophy and plan. Commit to them 100%. Beyond that, think about what areas of your coaching you want to improve in and how to do that. You can build this into your goals for the year.

Here are three creative ways to gain positive results from your season;

1. Get a mentor that can help you on a weekly basis, if not daily. Find someone to help you stay accountable to what you really want to do in your coaching.

2. Buy video editing software. I believe players are very visual and love to watch themselves. This can be a huge tool for you in terms of self-scouting (practice clips) or game preparation. Sideline Sports in particular has a great line of software tools that are very affordable to the youth or high school coach.

3. Begin to keep a "black book" for your coaching. The contents of this notebook are the essential beliefs/philosophies of your coaching. Example-don't have every OB play you have seen and written down at clinics in your black book. Include only those you have run and will run in the future. This is a very condensed version of you as a coach. It is your coaching Bible. Many coaches do not adopt a Top 3 or a black book and I believe that leads to being unorganized and inefficient coaching and poor results!

Use at least one of these four recommendations and prepare to see amazing changes and great results from your improved coaching ability.

I hope this helps........this comes from not only coaching for 25 years, but also in mentoring hundreds of coaches, currently and in the past.



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