Don’t make the ridiculous mistake of thinking that your particular brand of excuse is somehow more valid than the last 20 million that have been uttered. Excuses are the domain of the mediocre.
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How To Remember What You Study
Study Smarter, Not Harder: How to Be Successful in School — There are seven-year-olds who can sing dozens of songs. Are they geniuses? Hardly. Usually, they have a CD or iPod. They hear the song a few times and soon it is embedded in their memories. They know it without trying. Learn about the “Snatch-and-Reinforce Method of Studying”.
3-Step Formula For Players To Overcome Losing
No one is ever quite sure about how a basketball player is supposed to act after a loss. Naturally, some losses will be more bothersome than others, and (just as naturally) every basketball player will lose some times. Therefore, it seems wise to prepare an intelligent response in advance for when the inevitable happens and you lose. In this article, we’ll show you how to adopt a champion’s approach to losing that will allow you to stand out from the crowd.
Dear Coach DeVenzio: Other Competitive Basketball Camps for Young Players?
Dear Coach: I have an extremely talented 12 year old who plays in AAU and “cruises” through the league. I think he would be a great candidate to attend your basketball camp in a couple of years or as soon as you’ll take him. Question: Do you know of another highly competitive guard or point guard basketball camp that I could send him to in the mean time?
How This Tiny Thing Separates Good Teams From Bad Ones
A few points, a couple of plays, a low percentage shot someplace instead of one more pass and a higher percentage shot. Such a tiny thread in 32 or 40 minutes of basketball separates championship teams from those that struggle to win even half of their games. If you have you ever wondered how some some people win consistently while others lose consistently (often only by a few points), look no further.
Nod To The Coach
Nodding to your coach seems like an obvious thing, and hardly a tip for a good basketball player yet very often players fail to do this. Understand how a little nod goes a long way toward establishing the kind of player-coach relationship that leads to winning basketball.
Basketball Blog: Busy, Not Troublesome, Parents
Utilizing the abilities of players, other coaches and parents during the games is one of the largely untapped areas available to most coaches… Very often you could get most everything you want if you would take time to think about how to go about getting it.
Basketball Blog: Attitude… Defined.
What is your attitude? All of us have a good attitude when things are going well; when we’re the stars of our teams and winning big games, but what’s your attitude when your team is losing? How do you react when the referees are cheating, when your teammates won’t pass you the ball, and when your coach is screaming at you for something that isn’t your fault?
Pavlovian Basketball
Basketball is a thinking game but, as a coach, one of your major responsibilities is to take as many situations as possible out of thought processes and turn them into quick reactions requiring no thought at all. For example, when a player catches a basketball, you don’t want him thinking what to do, as though there [...]
Why Excuses Are So Bad
Excuses hurt teams, not just because they waste time and kill team morale (and a coach’s morale), but because they reveal that the player making them has a very off-line focus. An excuse-maker can’t possibly be using his energy thinking about how to enhance what is going on or about to go on because, obviously, [...]
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