Coaching the Heart

One of the most compelling lessons I have learned from spending time with Kevin Eastman over the past five years, is to become a “Learn-It-All”; by reading as much as you can. If you’...

4 Drills to Become An Effective Pressing Team

Circle Trap The Circle Trap drill is one of the best drills to not only teach your offensive players how to handle traps under pressure, but it also teaches your defense how to trap without fouling. O...

Basketball Skill Development with Billy Donovan

Notes taken from the 2012 Brayden Carr Foundation Coaching Clinic. University of Florida Men’s Basketball Coach Billy Donovan spoke on the importance of individual skill development in his prog...

Basketball Insight and Drills from Indiana’s Tom Crean

Notes taken from the 2012 Brayden Carr Foundation Coaching Clinic. Indiana University Men’s Basketball Coach Tom Crean spoke on numerous aspects of basketball and gave a few of his favorite fin...

Court Vision: The Trained Eyes of a Head Coach (Part 2)

If you haven’t read Court Vision: The Trained Eyes of a Head Coach (Part 1), make sure you jump over and read it first! Below is my mental checklist I go through on the defensive end of the flo...

Coaching: Find the WHY in Everything You Do!

After speaking at length with my good friend Brendan Suhr yesterday and reading J.P. Clark’s phenomenal article this morning I wanted to touch base a little bit on WHY I coach and WHY I share s...