Too often when teams at all levels start achieving success, the players (and some coaches) start to think they are invincible and let their guard down and are no longer "on edge". Along with this cockiness, comes the groupies and cancers to your team. They...
The Hardwood Hustle crew and I had the opportunity of a lifetime to fly to Dallas and spend the morning with and interview Mark Cuban – the outrageous billionaire owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and star of ABC’s popular reality show, Shark Tank. Mark was extremely hospitable as he granted us full...
As many of my longtime followers know, at the end of 2008 I set a personal goal to read 50 books in 2009. Given the fact I hadn’t read 50 books in my entire life up until that point; it was a lofty goal to...
Recently Jon Gordon shared this article on the Power of a Positive Educator. Positive educators have the power to transform lives and inspire young minds to believe they can and will change the world. In this spirit here are seven ways we can all choose...
Our goal at The Tribe is not only to provide you with the best basketball content, but also share with you any articles that can help you become a better person and a coach. Today we wanted to share a great poem we came across titled...
Stronger Team's Alan Stein has spent a ton of time, up close and personal, observing truly great players – guys like LeBron, KD, CP3 and Stephen Curry.Below is his list of the characteristics great players showcase every day… in every practice and in every game.You...
...that we're on the right track. ...that we are making a difference. ...that what we're working on matters. ...of who we really are. Billy Graham once said, "One coach will impact more young people in a year than the average person does in a lifetime." So, with that in mind,...
If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.Every great endeavor begins with a vision of something greater than yourself, but until it's shared and internalized by the team, it will get no traction. So, as a coach, you are responsible to create (or at least mold) your team's vision. You are the captain of that ship after all.
You can develop a successful vision for your basketball team by making three commitments:
Seth Godin recently wrote the following on his blog: Fledgling sushi chefs spend months (sometimes years) doing nothing but making the rice for the head chef. If the rice isn't right, it really doesn't matter what else you do, you're not going to be able to serve...
But, I recently got to thinking. Are we as compatible as I think we are? Do I love you because my previous coaches told me to? Are you just a Sacred Zombie Cow? Or, do we really fit?
I needed to know (for both our sakes) so I decided to test it out on the biggest stage I could find: the NCAA National Championship game - theoretically the two best non-professional basketball teams in the world. It would be perfect. I would chart all the amazing impact you made in that game and fall in love with you all over again. You know, just like when we were younger.
Well, that's what I thought would happen.