If you have an undersized and nonathletic team, is shooting priority #1? With a team that isn't big enough in the post, and not fast enough to push the pace, do you rely on screens and the three ball?

 

 

Setting good screens, teach the 3 and invert your offense. like Pitino did with McCarty, Padgett, and those guys. Run the Princeton offense.

 

 

 

The 3 ball can be taught, but it is not an indication of a good shooter.....my brother is perfect example, great 3 point shooter, great FT shooter, not very good mid-range game.

Whatever the philosophy is it starts with building fundamentals at a young age. In order to achieve success year after year you have to build your feeder programs. Just like Major League baseball uses the Minor Leagues to develop their talent.

It is very difficult to undo bad habits when a player has been doing things the wrong way for years.

I would not be a good basketball coach. I don't understand the game well enough to coach it.

I have said the same about myself with football. I love the game but do not know enough of the details and/or the best ways to teach what all has to be taught to give proper fundamentals to kids. I feel that I would hurt kids more than I could help in football.

 

Whatever the philosophy is it starts with building fundamentals at a young age. In order to achieve success year after year you have to build your feeder programs.

 

You have nailed it with these two statements redsfan. Very good post

No, I would not coach any sport at the high school level. In fact, I wouldn't coach any sport at a middle school level.

 

The parents would be too much for me to put up with.

 

I'd love to coach my kids teams (when I have kids) when they are young though.

If you have an undersized and nonathletic team, is shooting priority #1? With a team that isn't big enough in the post, and not fast enough to push the pace, do you rely on screens and the three ball?

 

I would always make shooting & ball handling my two biggest priorities.

 

If you can't score, you won't win. A team full of lethal (or at least capable) shooters is always a threat.

 

Defense is heart & grit. I'd convey that to my team and we'd work on defense & boxing out, but not nearly as much as the offensive aspects of the game. I'd get the point across regarding my defensive philosophy through intense drills in practice, where there is an above average amount of physical contact.

No thanks... I already coach a high school sport and one is enough for me. :thumb:

If the school is looking to tank it's season so it can move it Miami then I'm your man. And I am ugly enough that there is no way a cardboard cut out off me would inspire a team to win by "pulling off a piece" of my clothing after every victory so there is not that to worry about. :thumb:

If the school is looking to tank it's season so it can move it Miami then I'm your man. And I am ugly enough that there is no way a cardboard cut out off me would inspire a team to win by "pulling off a piece" of my clothing after every victory so there is not that to worry about. :thumb:

 

Nice 'Major League' reference!! :thumb:

I would teach fundamentals daily and do a ton of dribbling,agility and passing drills. Nowdays all kids want to do is shoot the ball. I would stress hitying the open man making the extra pass and team ball.

If I knew the game and thought I could teach it I would do all I could to be a coach and it would be on the girls sode of things.