Princeton Offense – Complete Coaching Guide

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The best point guards have developed a consistent floater in the lane.

Parents:

Focus more on your child's attitude and coachability than their athletic accomplishments.

You don't need to be a scorer to be a great player

1. Take charges

2. Box out

3. Dive for loose balls

4. Sprint back on D

5. Make extra pass

''My fault,' I'm sorry' and 'my bad' are useless phrases.

I know you screwed up.

Fix it'

- Bob Knight

More than likely the most important things you teach your players will have nothing to do with the X's and O's of basketball.

75 Basketball Coaching Clinics You Can Watch Online Right Now

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How to build shooting confidence:

1. Shoot a lot.

2. See the basketball go in the hoop a lot.

3. Repeat.

“When everyone has good players, teaching will be a telling difference”

- John Wooden

You earn your trophies at practice.

You just pick them up at tournaments.

'Confidence is everything in this game, if you don't think you can, you won't'

- Jerry West

'It all starts with energy.

Playing hard, rebounding, running the floor, setting screens, doing all those energy things'

- Larry Drew

Why Players Miss So Many Layups (And How to Fix It)

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'If I can’t expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll?

Or get a rebound?'

- Billy Donovan

'The greatest fear I've ever had is that in some way I might not have prepared my team as well as I could have'

– Bobby Knight

“Players think - “Play me and I’ll show you”.

Coaches think - “Show me and I’ll play you”

- Shaka Smart

'If I'm asking my players to improve, I have to be improving'

- Mike Neighbors

'Everybody says they want to be about winning, but the true test of that is in how hard you defend and how willingly you share the ball'

- Jeff Van Gundy

When training youth players you want the drills to force them to think and make decisions.

'It takes three things to be a ‘special’ player: talent, character, and competitive fire'

- Kevin Eastman