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Centro Escolar University is pulling all the stops to ensure that its already successful basketball program is continuously improving.

04/14/2021

INDECISION IS A PLAYER KILLER. TOO MANY OPTIONS CAUSES CONFUSION AND ERODES CONFIDENCE

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As coaches, we try to prepare our players for every possible situation they might face in a game. When we teach skills, we try to present things that that will help our players to excel in every area. In our desire to create a formidable basketball entity (team or player), we don’t realize how com...

04/08/2021

DO YOU THINK TOO MUCH?

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I am a huge proponent of leaving your brain at the door when you step on the court. I believe that over-thinking produces the most deadly of all game killers, Analysis Paralysis. Just by looking at the words (a good English project for players) analysis paralysis means what it says, you are unable t...

03/28/2021

http://drillzandskillzbasketball.com/the-mental-game/immediacy-the-forgotten-fundamental

The evolution of basketball marches on. The game is a living, breathing entity that, like a shark, must keep moving ahead or it will die. Those of us that have been watching for decades can readily see the changes. Those too young to remember the game in the 60s, 70s, 80s and even the 90s will see t...

03/24/2021

DOES PRACTICE REALLY MAKE YOU BETTER?

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I have been coaching, effectively, for my entire life. Even as a child, I played while preparing myself to be a coach. While it is what I have the most passion for, I do do other things. However, no matter what I am doing, I see basketball in it. I often draw analogies from other things I do to bask...

03/16/2021

TOO MANY THINGS TO THINK OF HOLDING YOU BACK?

http://drillzandskillzbasketball.com/the-mental-game/consequence-of-choice

As coaches, we try to prepare our players for every possible situation they might face in a game. When we teach skills, we try to present things that that will help our players to excel in every area. In our desire to create a formidable basketball entity (team or player), we don’t realize how com...

03/09/2021

WANT TO BE A BETTER PLAYER? DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!!

http://drillzandskillzbasketball.com/the-mental-game/do-your-homework

You might not know it to look at me now, but I was a pretty good player. I was not very big, not very quick nor did I possess any other special physical tools. Still I was good enough to play in high school, with some distinction, and go on to play major college basketball.

02/27/2021

12 THINGS ALL GREAT SHOOTERS DO

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12 Things That GREAT Shooters Do

02/18/2021

ARE YOU ACTING SECOND AND LOSING CONTROL OF YOUR OPPONENT?

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ATTACK FIRST. MAKE YOUR OPPONENT READ AND REACT I have been known as something of a contrarian when it comes to coaching and teaching basketball. We all have different experiences and we are shaped by those experiences. When I started coaching, it was one size fits all, I was taught in a particular....

02/11/2021

WANT TO BE A BETTER PLAYER? LIMIT THE THINGS THAT YOU DO

http://drillzandskillzbasketball.com/item/416-limit-your-choices-expand-your-game

FEWER CHOICES, LESS OPTIONS, EXPAND YOUR GAME My mind works in mysterious ways. If you know me, you already know that. If you don’t know me, you are about to find out. I am writing this while in the throes of the Coronavirus pandemic. I sincerely hope that everyone is safe and healthy. I also hope...

02/09/2021

I don't mourn for many people, but I will mourn for Tom. The world is truly a better place for all of us because he walked this earth. Apparently, in this world today, the good Lord needed some help identifying those that belong in Heaven. He couldn't have found a better scout. Rest easy "Glider." Thank you for being a force in my life.

New York City lost a part of its basketball soul on Monday. Tom Konchalski, one of the country’s most respected high school basketball scouts and a legendary figure in the Northeast, died at the ag…

02/02/2021

IF YOU WANT TO BE A BETTER SHOOTER...

http://drillzandskillzbasketball.com/item/417-if-you-want-to-be-a-better-shooter-shooting-has-to-be-a-higher-priority

IF YOU WANT TO BE A BETTER SHOOTER, IT HAS TO BE A HIGHER PRIORITY I have been known for my “triple threat” mentality. Triple threat for me is, “Shot, “Shot, Shot.” If you think that I am teaching players to shoot without considering other aspects of the game, you don’t understand what I...

01/27/2021

LET THE MENTAL LEAD THE PHYSICAL

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THE MENTAL LEADS THE PHYSICAL There’s a lot of talk in coaching about the mental side of the game. I hear a lot about thinking the game, building mental toughness (which I contend is really just confidence), etc.  I really believe in the mental side of the game. Bobby Knight, Hall of Fame coa...

01/21/2021

WILL MAKING FEWER CORRECTION HELP YOUR TEAM GET BETTER

http://drillzandskillzbasketball.com/item/419-make-fewer-corrections-improve-your-play

FEWER CORRECTIONS, BETTER PLAY Coaches know he purpose of practice is to get better. So, you practice your team, practice, practice, and practice. You make correction after correction. And yet, your team doesn’t get better. What’s going on here? Ever been in this position? I have. I thought I wa...

01/17/2021

http://drillzandskillzbasketball.com/item/420-is-less-more

IS LESS MORE? I have been coaching for a long time. Every day I spend in this business I learn something new. For 41 years, I believe I have been evolving as a coach. One of the things I have learned and believe is that coaches coach the way they were coached. I was no different. I played for a coup...

11/12/2020

YOUR MENTALITY LEADS YOU TO PHYSICAL ACTION

http://drillzandskillzbasketball.com/item/418-the-mental-leads-the-physical

THE MENTAL LEADS THE PHYSICAL There’s a lot of talk in coaching about the mental side of the game. I hear a lot about thinking the game, building mental toughness (which I contend is really just confidence), etc.  I really believe in the mental side of the game. Bobby Knight, Hall of Fame coa...