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I was recently able to take advantage of a gap in the summer basketball camp season to attend a coaching clinic called “Coaching U“. This annual basketball clinic is put on by long-time NBA coach, Brendan Suhr, and Boston Celtics assistant coach, Kevin Eastman. There were a lot of ‘golden nuggets’ to leave with for both basketball coaches and basketball players.
Here’s one of those nuggets from Kevin Eastman that I think holds true:
COACHES: Your pay check is your responsibility, not your employers.
Here are Eastman’s “Four Whats to Create Value”:
- What’s needed?
- What am I good at that I can become great at?
- What’s the little things that nobody wants to do?
- What shall I stay away from?
ATHLETES: Your contribution to your team is your responsibility, not your coaches.
To me, the principles hold true for athletes too. How much a basketball player contributes to his or her team’s success is determined by each athlete, individually. And so, the same questions apply…
- What does my team need most (offensively, defensively, in the locker room, etc)?
- What things am I good at that I can become great at AND meet my team’s greatest needs?
- What are the little, nameless, oft unnoticed acts that I can do, that no ones wants to do – between the lines and outside the lines?
- What things should I avoid – both on and off the court? (What things should I add to my stop-doing list as a basketball player, teammate or person?)
How do you rate yourself against Kevin Eastman’s four point checklist? What things are you going to start doing today; and, stop-doing?
Tags: Athletes, Boston Celtics, Brendan Suhr, Coaches, Coaching Clinic, Coaching U, Kevin Eastman, NBA
Sefu Bernard is the Director of Excellence for PGC. An impassioned student and teacher of the game, you can follow him online at @PGCbasketball, @SefuBernard or on Facebook at theLLaBB.
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