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Last One Holding The Chalk...Usually Wins!(February 2003)Assortment of plays, drills and ideas to help your program improve.
An Interview with probably the greatest coach of all time...John Wooden (Part two of a three part series) What other ways did you encourage team unity? Wooden: I never permitted a player to criticize a teammate. If I saw a player criticizing a teammate I would, you know, uh, talk to him! I wouldn't permit that. I also insisted that a player never score without acknowledging somebody else. I tried to conduct myself in such a way that I wanted my players to act. I think our youngsters, whether they be basketball players or our children at home, need models more than they need critics. I wanted talking, but I never wanted any taunting. I see entirely too much of that today, and I think coaches can stop that if they wanted to. If I caught a player doing it, I certainly would not let it go unnoticed - he'd hear from me. If you could institute rule changes in basketball, what would they be? Wooden: I'd abolish the dunk and move the 3-point line back. You've often described yourself as a teacher. What do you most enjoy about teaching? Wooden: Watching youngsters improve. If I didn't see improvement in my youngsters from the beginning of the year to the end, I thought, I'm to blame, because I'm the teacher. When I had players that didn't improve to the degree I thought they should, I felt responsible and it bothered me. Two players came as close to realizing their full potential as any two I eve had. One was Conrad Burke (1956-1958) adn the other was Doug McIntosh (1964-1966). As freshmen, I didn't think either one of them would play a minute for us on the varsity. The very next year Doug McIntosh played about 30 minutes in the national championship against Duke. He didn't have the physical ability that many had, but he became a starter the next year. Conrad Burke was a starter for two years - at one time I thought he would never play any meaningful minutes for us. Neither of them were very good jumpers, but they were good rebounders because they assumed every shot would be missed, and they got their hands up and tried to get the ball, instead of assuming somebody else was going to get it. They weren't good shooters, but they had high shooting percentages, because they didn't take bad shots. What is the key to being a good teacher? Wooden: Patience. No two cases are identical, but the teacher must always have patience. And you have to listen to those under your supervision. I think anyone in a position of supervision, if they're not listening to those under them, they're not going to get good results. The supervisor must make sure that all of those under his supervision understand they're working with him, not for him. I think if you work for someone, you punch the clock in and out and that's it. If you're working with someone, you want to do more than that. Chalk Talk - X's and O's Strategy (click plays below) OB Under Play (1); OB Under Play (2); OB Under vs. Zone (1) Set Play (1); Set Play (2); Set Play (3) Assistant Coaching Food For Thought by Bob Starkey, former Assistant Coach Louisiana State 1.
Your job will never be any bigger than your imagination makes it. 2.
Do your job precisely as if you were your own boss and sooner or later you will
be. 3.
Don't be satisfied with being good at your job. Be the best and you'll soon be
indispensible. 4.
The measure of an assistant is the size of his or her thoughts. 5.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain and most fools do. 6.
The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep. 7.
Impossible is what nobody can do until somebody does it. 8.
Laugh with each other, not a each other. 9.
Nineteen of 21 civilizations have died from within, not by conquest from without. 10.
It isn't the load that breaks us down, it's the way we carry it. 11.
If the teacher doesn't love teaching, the pupil often hates learning; it's not
how much you know, but how well you teach it. 12.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. 13.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is a process; working together
is a success. 14.
Tell me, I'll forget; show me I may understand; but involve me and I'll understand. 15.
All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of
his own thoughts. 16.
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.
Communication is not what you tell someone, but what they hear you say. 17.
Images are better than words, showing is better than telling, too much instruction
is worse than none. Simplicity with constant repetition is the key to coaching
consistency. 18.
Be creative, enthusiastic, hard-working, organized, proud, loyal, honest, open,
a take-charge person and never assume anything. 19.
Preach what you practice and it will cut down your talking by 50 percent. 20. No written word, no spoken pleas can teach our youth what they should be, nor all the books on all the shelves -- it's what the teachers are themselves.
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"Be who you are and say what you feel; because those who mind don't matter;
and those that matter don't mind." Dr. Suess 3.
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainnment. Full effort is
full victory." Mahatma Gandhi 4.
"When I was a kid, we walked 10 miles to school every day, sometimes in the
rain and snow. Man, did we feel stupid when we found out there was a bus."
Author unknown 5.
"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do
with what there is." Ernest Hemmingway 6.
"It is our duty to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist."
Pierre Cardin 7.
"The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others."
Doug Larson 8.
"A real friend is one who waks in when the rest of the world walks out."
Walter Winchell 9.
"Success is getting what you want: happiness is wanting what you get."
Author unknown 10. "You don't get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it." Lou Gehrig |
