What % of the time do we set aside in practice to work on the mental side of the game? Like many coaches (myself included), it's probably not been enough.
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We working on Bolts, (getting wide early but staying available to the ball). The drill lasts for 30 seconds and the offensive team wants to score 7 points.
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A training piece in this drill is to get more 7's. We want to get easy 9's but if we cant get an easy 9, then we absolutely have an easy 7 in this drill. That should be a point of emphasis in the drill.
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We add a second defender who gives a guided read on the first stop. We can sandbox or war game this and level in pressure depending on the skillset of players. Key, attacking player making two stops.
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Show up on time and do their work with focus and intention even when they are in a bad mood and may not feel like it.
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Practice late-game situations daily in practice for the biggest moments. Also, practice late shot clock possession moment. Probably even more important.
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From a coaching perspective, look at a concept, an idea, or system of play with intent.
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Peek and Fake: We want players to peek at the basket on every catch. We want every peek at the rim to be met with a shot fake. We need to have the discipline on the peek and fake, to make the defense show discipline.
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Sometimes the inability to reach potential or even play hard comes down to the fact that we are comparing rather than competing.
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There is almost always a behaviour that you can easily identify that if eliminated will improve performance.
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Simple doesn't mean easy. We sometimes forget that if it's easy to do, it's also easy not to do!
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A player, a team, a coach, and/or a program are raising the bar, (not lowering it) by adding these three tenants of Mental Toughness. They are challenging for sure, but 100% controllable.
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During the season, it's easy to get away from good habits, skill development, and execution. It happens frequently. Competition is the single biggest distraction for player development and performance during the season
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The biggest challenge after losing or a losing streak is disconnecting. Players and coaches tend to disconnect from one another after a loss. Most often this is when connections are needed the most.
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Your superpower isn’t your money, automobile, house or any possessions. It’s not something you can buy.
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We often connect player effort and success on a basketball court to over trying, giving 100% effort. Giving 100% is impossible and like most sports basketball is never played best by over trying / over efforting.
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In training sessions, we often freeze action and players in their on-court positions and ask a series of questions. Lots of times we simply ask players to describe what they are seeing.
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Clean vs. Messy. More often than not, the cleaner the drill or execution and the fewer mistakes made the less likely it (what you are working on) will transfer to the game.
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Don't do anything in practice you can't actualize in a game.
Lots of players act like they are trying. They do enough to seem like they are fitting in but they are not going full out. Help players get beyond the social norms of the team.
In looking closely at what I have been doing and how I have been doing it, I have found that I often spend a disproportionate amount of time in one area of the game. For me, it has been in the Attack Phase. Even when focused on this phase, it's easy to lose sight of the main thing believing that I have to do all things in that phase well to be successful. More often then not, the opposite is true. To be successful, I have to focus and do one thing, (the main thing) well.
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