Coaching Beginners in Basketball

notebookThank goodness for my handy notebook. Players that attend my trainings or played on my teams are familiar with my handy notebooks. I have a tendency to write everything down. I have a collection of notebooks of ideas, speeches, quotes, basketball plays, basketball drills, and whatever I was thinking that day.

For basketball, it’s where I write out the quote of the day and the training or practice plan. It’s were I write down the lineup of players I want on a specific team during practice. This is something I got from my college coaches at the University of Memphis. At every practice, the coaches came in with the practice plan and the quote of the day. Before practice started all the players and coaches huddled up around the center of the court and went over the quote of the day. When practice was over, we went back to the center of the court and received the announcements. So it was a routine I decided to employ when I became a coach.

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3 Things to Learn from the Memphis-Oklahoma State Rematch

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Every one knows what happened in the first Memphis-Oklahoma State game. Memphis got humiliated. Marcus Smart had a career game. Josh Pastner was left winless against Top 25 teams. And it seemed like Memphis was set for another long season.

So the next question was– How would Memphis respond to a rematch, if they could get a rematch? Well, Memphis responded — very well. They got the win and the monkey is off of Josh Pastner’s back.

Here are 3 things to learn from it.

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