Cignetti at Indiana is making a lot of coaches look foolish w/ excuses. Just took a team w/0 five-stars at a historically mediocre program & won a national championship.

February 23, 2008 #2 Tennessee 66 #1 Memphis 62

18 yrs ago Tennessee went on the road and beat a great Memphis team at FedX Forum in what was a Super Bowl type of event. At the time the most watched game in College Basketball history took place in Tenn, not Ky, NC or Ks! How bout them Vols! ESPN TennesseeBasketball

The best coaches do less on game day. If you’re constantly shouting instructions, you’re making up for bad preparation. Let the players play.

I’ve found that letting the game do the bulk of the work, providing a couple (1 or 2) major areas of focus is in my experience been best teaching. Couple broad overview points & then let the constraints around the game do the rest.

I was coached to let my mental toughness as an athlete be strong enough to not care/ not let fans effect me. ( Barring anything over the line then let admin remove/ban fan) but seems like we’re long past those days.

Colin Cowherd on the criticism Bam is receiving for scoring 83 points: “Bam Adebayo scored 83 points last night. Everybody is attacking him. This is what we do in America. The minute there’s success we have to tear everybody down. 83 is 83. He’s an excellent basketball player.

Transactional vs. Transformational Coaching… Dan Hurley shared a story about asking Geno Auriemma for advice after a rough start last season. Geno didn’t mince words: “Listen, if the only gratification and the only part of coaching that excites you is winning the national

If you coach long enough you’ll be on both sides of this. We need more respect for coaches/opponents, not less.

“We just need to communicate better” is one of the biggest cop-outs on defense. Communication should sharpen and quicken decisions, not be the system itself. Build a defense that works in silence. Clear rules. Clear rotations. Clear answers. And let voices make it great.

Reporter tells Rick Barnes he'll be the one coach in Chicago who won't get asked about the UNC opening. Barnes doesn't miss a beat: "I'm from North Carolina!"

#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.

Dan Hurley on the two personas every head coach must master: The Jockey 🏇, and the Corner Man. 🥊 In practice — you are the jockey. You push. You challenge. You demand more than they think they have. You stretch them past comfort so execution becomes inevitable. On game

Cignetti and Hurley are completely opposite in this approach Both elite coaches.. just comes down to believing in your philosophy and executing it to the highest standards

This may be the best (most important 🤷‍♂️) paragraph I have written in 25 years.

If you’re a HS coach with standards who doesn’t let talent excuse nonsense—I applaud you. Coaching hard still matters.
If you just tell kids what they want to hear, look me up down the road. We are the standard. We’ll gladly get you on the schedule.

& this is the part of NIL’s impact that doesn’t get discussed as much. CBB was incredibly fun this year. Offseason just as fun so far.

Expo Hoops Why isn’t this viewed as a positive? brianmccormick.substack.com/p/lets-portal

Lakers are the best story in the NBA right now. This eclectic group of players missing their two best players, led by a 41-year old GOAT, and a mishmash of journeymen role players coming together to go up 3-0 as the underdog. They’re like The Expendables.

But I thought Mike Malone was the problem for Denver…..