Our fall meeting will take place Thursday September 17th, 2009 at 3:00 in room 103. This is a meeting for basketball players NOT playing a fall sport. The main topic being discussed will be weight training and conditioning.
With your transition from summer to school mode, I just wanted to remind you of priorities how I see them.
1. Faith
2. Family
3. School/Academics
4. Basketball/Sports
If you can't make a fall workout because one of the first three priorities...Never a problem.
Other than that, I expect to see you there!
"Excuses are tools of incompetence used to build monuments of nothingness. And those who specialize in them are seldom good at anything else"
Let's not make excuses for not being in the weight room or at a workout. Bigger, stronger and faster is the name of the game!!!
(Speaking of faith...Please say a prayer for Robbie Drexel who just ended his football season because he broke his ankle) Get better soon Robbie
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Summer Circuit Complete!
My apologies for a long stretch in between posts! Morris Catholic summer basketball circuit ended August 6th and my circuit ended August 28th at the Five-Star Basketball camp. That officially means that fall sports have started and the next season is Basketball season....only 3 months away! Good luck to the players in their fall sports and good luck to Coach Adriano and Coach Lusardi.
For those who worked hard this summer, continue to build on what you learned this summer. For those who know you could have worked harder, the time is always now to put some work in!
"History repeats itself, opportunity does not...the time is now!"
For those players not playing a fall sport, we will have a preseason meeting to talk about fall plans. Listen to announcements in school for the time and date of meeting.
As mentioned previously, I was at Five Star Camps for August and had an incredible opportunity to coach or work with Doron Lamb (top 10 guard in the country, who has Coach Calipari and Kentucky drooling), Sterling Gibbs (Seton Hall Prep stud), Kyrie Irving (probably top guard in the country), Jayvaughn Pinkston and many other outstanding top HS players......I had them at stations teaching them "Game conditioning dribbling drills" and noticed that there were only a certain number of players going 100 percent (as other coaches noticed this group not giving full effort as well), so I called them in to let them know I went to 5 star as a camper when Ron Artest and Elton Brand were the studs at camp. Coaches at that camp knew they were going to make it to the NBA because of their hard work ethic and determination to get better. I told them specifically that Kyrie Irving was going to make it to the league because he was working his butt off. Others thought they already made it and everything will fall into place. No matter what business you are in, there is always someone out there better than you, and if you become complacent, you will be left behind!!!
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them
Currently reading "Coaching Team Basketball" by Tom Crean (my favorite coach in NCAA) for the second time and wanted to share a paragraph about how teamwork trumps individual talent.
Teamwork separates winners and losers. No collection of players, no matter how talented, can win unless they form a team. The word "team" is an acronym for a dominant truth: Together Everyone Achieves More. No dream is out of reach for a smooth-functioning team!
See you fellas soon!!!
For those who worked hard this summer, continue to build on what you learned this summer. For those who know you could have worked harder, the time is always now to put some work in!
"History repeats itself, opportunity does not...the time is now!"
For those players not playing a fall sport, we will have a preseason meeting to talk about fall plans. Listen to announcements in school for the time and date of meeting.
As mentioned previously, I was at Five Star Camps for August and had an incredible opportunity to coach or work with Doron Lamb (top 10 guard in the country, who has Coach Calipari and Kentucky drooling), Sterling Gibbs (Seton Hall Prep stud), Kyrie Irving (probably top guard in the country), Jayvaughn Pinkston and many other outstanding top HS players......I had them at stations teaching them "Game conditioning dribbling drills" and noticed that there were only a certain number of players going 100 percent (as other coaches noticed this group not giving full effort as well), so I called them in to let them know I went to 5 star as a camper when Ron Artest and Elton Brand were the studs at camp. Coaches at that camp knew they were going to make it to the NBA because of their hard work ethic and determination to get better. I told them specifically that Kyrie Irving was going to make it to the league because he was working his butt off. Others thought they already made it and everything will fall into place. No matter what business you are in, there is always someone out there better than you, and if you become complacent, you will be left behind!!!
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them
Currently reading "Coaching Team Basketball" by Tom Crean (my favorite coach in NCAA) for the second time and wanted to share a paragraph about how teamwork trumps individual talent.
Teamwork separates winners and losers. No collection of players, no matter how talented, can win unless they form a team. The word "team" is an acronym for a dominant truth: Together Everyone Achieves More. No dream is out of reach for a smooth-functioning team!
See you fellas soon!!!
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