Toughness Defined by Jay Bilas

If you have not yet read Toughness: Developing True Strength On and Off the Court by Jay Bilas, I highly recommend you do. It is one of the best books I have ever read. So good in fact that it gave me...

Film Breakdown Part 2: Conducting Team Video Sessions

If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, Post-Game Analysis, head over and check it out after you finish reading. One of the famous quotes in coaching is, “Film doesn’t lie”. Meeting wi...

Film Breakdown Part 1: Post-Game Analysis

Upon several requests, I have put together a three-part series of posts discussing how to watch film as after the game, with your team, and with individual players. Today I am going to discuss the p...

Individual Instruction On-Court Workout 7/24/2014

Today was an exciting day as one of my usual workout guys got back into the gym after dealing with a minor injury the past few weeks. Knowing he would not be in his top conditioning I scaled back the ...

Individual Instruction On-Court Workout 7/23/2014

I apologize the next two workouts I am posting does not include any video of the drills. I will explain them the best I can in detail and with diagrams. As usual, if you have any other questions (espe...

Individual Instruction On-Court Workout 7/22/2014

After a few weeks off because I was out-of-town at Coaching U Live, and my players have been busy with the AAU circuit, we got back in the gym for a skill tune-up today before one of my players heads ...

End of Game SLOB: Need 2 (Lob)

I recently watched some video from last year’s Brayden Carr Foundation Coaching Clinic run by coach Jim Carr. This play came from the legendary John Lucas and is a very simple sideline out-of-bo...

On-Court Agility Workout 7/4/2014

As I mentioned yesterday one of the goals for my players is to increase their agility and quickness for next season. Today’s workout was our first session of the Summer. Our plan is to perform b...

Individual Instruction On-Court Workout 7/2/2014

After evaluating my players throughout the entire month of June, I am going to be designing their July through October workouts to not only improve on their weaknesses, but also continue to make strid...

1-on-1 Post Cone Drill

This drill is excellent in teaching your players how to effectively create angles in the post on offense, and also take them away on defense. Place one cone at the top of the key and another cone on t...