via The Women’s Basketball Server by wbeeball on 12/13/09
Van Chancellor
This article on LSU and Coach Chancellor’s displeasure with his team’s turnovers made me think of a simple yet effective addition to all of your drills and practice. Coach Chancellor wants less turnovers and for players to value the ball… funny, don’t we all.
Joe Logan
Joe Logan (now Head Coach at Loyola College in Baltimore, MD) was as assistant at St. Joe’s in Philadelphia, PA. and told me about this one. I went to practice some years ago and this is what they did to help their team gain some value for taking care of the ball.
The ball rack was rolled out for the start of practice. It contained 15 balls. As practice was going on, each time the team turned the ball over – a manager would remove a ball from the rack and set it “gently” in the stands. No one yelled, no one screamed, no one said anything. Coach Chancellor may not like this part.
As they moved through practice, this continued until there were no balls left on the rack. At that point, Cindy Griffin (Head Coach at St. Joe’s) blew the whistle, calmly put everyone on the baseline and they began to run down and backs. Not all out sprints, but not jogging either. Just down and back, down and back.
Cindy Griffin
There was approximately one hour left in practice when this occurred. The team ran. They ran for the remainder of the practice time. About a twenty minutes to a half an hour into the run, Coach Griffin stopped them – put a player on the line for a 1-and-1. If she made both, the team got a (one) ball back and they could resume practice. Is she missed the front end or the back end – no ball and the resume running. About ten minutes later Coach Griffin did it again – pressure free throw shooting and an opportunity to get back into practice.
The team earned one ball back and resumed the drill or segment where they left off. Shortly after that, a turnover occurred and they were out of balls and back running up and down the court.
Once practice was over they huddled up and Coach Griffin calmly explained the value of taking care of the ball better.
After practice I sat with Joe and asked him how that all came about. He explained, the Hawks were about 3 games into the season and they were averaging over 30 turnovers! They had to figure something out. They were screaming about turnovers in every drill, every day – it was counter productive. This simple yet very effective addition to every drill or segment they did really helped them cut there turnovers down.
The next summer we used it in training camp with the New York Liberty and it was effective there as well.
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Every member of a coaching staff, no matter the sport, will tell you one of the most unsettling feelings is being presented with the Monday morning Facebook photos. Student-athletes are becoming more and more savvy, they “lock” their photo’s so we (coaches) can’t get to them. That doesn’t mean that no one can get to them. Unfortunately, it hasn’t changed the behavior just made obtaining the photos more difficult. We all have to work harder to instill the trust and values to improve the decision making of the student-athlete first and help keep our student-athletes safer.
Let’s realize this… college kids to to parties. All of them. Athletes are no different. Even the most dedicated of athletes still go. It’s fun, it’s social, it’s their friends, classmates and peers. Drinking or no drinking, your student-athletes are going to be at parties and potentially in the wrong place at the wrong time at some point during their collegiate career. Athletes at parties is nothing new. What is new is the technology. Technology has put every intoxicated or high athlete on the front page of newspapers and all over the internet. We all saw Michael Phelps.
As coaches, we are going to need to be prepared to help our student-athletes through this. Helping them through it is the key, especially with female athletes. It can not simply be about discipline. Though discipline, responsibility and accountability are necessary, discipline is after the fact. Discipline is a reaction. We need to be proactive, help educate before they are in these situations. Empower our student-athletes to make better decisions. Hopefully, avoid as many situations as possible.
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Bob Starkey of LSU Lady Tigers recently shared a great entry from Eric Musselman’s site on Bill Bellichek’s coaching philosophy by KC Joyner. I think we can all learn and apply useful strategies or philosophies no matter the sport. Coach Musselman’s BLOG is an excellent source of information for coaches, fans, players/student-athletes or parents.
Eric Musselman
One of my goals this year is to travel to as many different successful schools, professional teams, businesses and organizations to observe and learn from the wide variety of successful philosophies out there. Successful people are successful people no matter the profession. Success is bread with a variety of traits and to be able to have the time to invest in discovering these systems, philosophies and traits is a tremendous gift. We can all learn every day. Those lessons can be applied to coaching, anything. My time away from the court is going to make me a better person, father, husband and basketball coach.
Below you will find Coach Musselman’s thoughts and the original article by KC Joyner.
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It is always aggravating to have to go searching all over for college basketball schedules. Here it is, one-stop-shopping. Several NCAA Division I Men’s College basketball conference schedule links. Many of the conferences have not yet release their schedule, as noted. Links provided should get you there at a later date. Video Coordinators plan away! Fans get the snacks, cold drinks and recliners ready! Bring on October 15th!
ACC MEN’S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
ACC MEN’S – PDF VERSION
ATLANTIC TEN MEN’S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
ATLANTIC TEN MEN’S – PDF
BIG EAST MEN’S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
*LINK IS CORRECT – SCHEDULE HAS NOT YET BEEN RELEASED
BIG EAST/SEC INVITATIONAL SCHEDULE
CONFERENCE USA MEN’S BASKETBALL PROSPECTUS
*COMPOSITE SCHEDULE NOT YET RELEASED
COLONIAL CONFERENCE MEN’S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
*LINK IS CORRECT – SCHEDULE HAS NOT YET BEEN RELEASED
METRO ATLANTIC ATHLETIC CONFERENCE (MAAC) MEN’S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
*LINK IS CORRECT – SCHEDULE HAS NOT YET BEEN RELEASED
MAAC 2009 OLD SPICE CLASSIC SCHEDULE
NORTHEAST CONFERENCE MEN’S BASKETBALL SUMMER PREVIEW
*COMPOSITE SCHEDULE NOT YET RELEASED
PAC-10 MEN’S BASKETBALL PROSPECTUS
*COMPOSITE SCHEDULE NOT YET RELEASED
SEC MEN’S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
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