The GREATEST sports parents are those who let the coaches coach, the officials officiate, are their children’s biggest support system, and spend more time and energy focusing on their child’s character, work ethic, and education, than anything else. ~from Coach Hines 🇺🇸

Composure and emotional stability

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The way it should be

Parents: If a coach is willing to volunteer their time to coach your son or daughter, please let them do the coaching. If you really want to voice your opinion from the sideline all game, wait a few months and put your hand up to coach next season.

So true - always do what is right for the team

Youth basketball in America needs more skill work/practices + 3 on 3 and less games per week. Way too many games are played. The real growth is in the skill work and 3 on 3 allows more reads/decision making. European youth basketball has mastered this formula

This is such a good read and should be great food for thought for all involved in youth sport

Kids in 3rd-8th grade play more games in a year than HS teams…We have it all backwards…9-12 year olds running around shooting on a rim too high with a ball too big, playing zone, and scoring in the 20s.

Seems like common sense what Norway does…….food for thought!

Average coaches mainly use rewards and punishments to motivate their players. Great coaches inspire their players from the inside out.

IF it were REALLY about the kids, you’d see: HS coaches working w/ travel coaches Parents and Teachers working together And all of them having the KIDS best interests ahead of their own. But we all know, it’s really rarely about the kids.

This is why it is important for coaches to consider moving away from using internal feedback, as frequently seen within the dominant approach.

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An excellent post and one that all youth coaches should think about!

#1 Talking too much. #2 Correcting too quickly. #3 Believing in a perfect technique. #4 Trying to fit the player into their method of shooting.

Ball Reversals 🤝 Paint Touches Arizona and Michigan EPITOMIZE this in their tourney runs this season. Both teams are putting so much pressure on the rim - Michigan with ball movement and Arizona with rebounding dominance. Schematically, very different, but the shot quality

If you’re a coach who wants to challenge players while building awesome relationships, you should read this. The problem is . . . challenging players in uncomfortable ways is absolutely necessary for excellence but risks turning them off, damaging trust, and undermining