Your Coaching Experience

[dare]

Have you tried being a coach before? If so what is your style?

I actually have been coaching grade 5 and 6 elementary students in the past few weeks. At first I explained them how important the fundamentals of the game. How a simple box-out can help your team to win, stuff like that.

As for my trainings I instruct them to jog every morning as it helps to build stamina. After a few runs and body stretching I let them do footwork, dribbling and passing drills. Since the team is not really big I decided that they will be a fast pace offense team. I also teach them how to rotate in the 2-3 and 1-2-2 zone defense.

We won our first game against maybe just the same level of my team. We won 74-61 and I’m very happy with my team’s performance, everybody gets a hold of their man when getting a rebound and had a very good help defense especially inside the paint. Although not everyone gets to play I like how competitive they are, they even thinks that we can be champions even though they finished second to the last out of 8 teams that played last year.

Now I hope I get to handle the high school team as I played in the same school before, I didn’t really expect that coaching is fun although that may change if I suffer a defeat.

[shadowgrin]

You can always break a clipboard to show that you're displeased with your team during games. Get an assistant that will draw plays for you during crunch time so you won't have to do a lot of work. Since your specialty is offense, don't hire a defensive assistant coach, it'll ruin your system. Also try to coach games while drunk since it improves your offense thinking abilities. To improve players, emotionally break down your PG and tell him to play the right way or call out your center for playing with no heart. If you get fired for doing a bad job, tell others you quit because you want to spend time with your family.

[Patr1ck]

Don't forget to call out the refs on the bad calls during the playoffs.

[Mavs4Life]

I've coached my cousin's 4th grade team starting next month.I also coached tghem last summer.I'm an offensive guy, & I always say push the break & crash the offensive boards. There's one really talented kid on the team named Will, but he's on of those, I-only-trust-two-guys on-the-team people.

He litterally only passes to two guys. We also have a "big" kid on the team who is great inside, he'll go to be a center someday. The funny thing is since we're in Dallas, at the first practice I asked "Who's everyone's basketball hero?". Last summer it was "Lebron", now it's "Dirk". They're a great team,there's just a few ballhogs.

The one thing is, I get pissed at some calls. One kid we played last summer already knows how to flop.
I'm also "helping" my little bro get ready for jr. high tryouts. I'll do is wake him up & tell him to take a jog around the block, then I do some shooting drills.

[dare]

lol I'm not a Nellie type of coach. I really think I'm a defensive type of coach I just applied them a fast pace offense.

[shadowgrin]

No problem, these worked well for defensive coaches too...

To improve players, emotionally break down your PG and tell him to play the right way or call out your center for playing with no heart. If you get fired for doing a bad job, tell others you quit because you want to spend time with your family.

[JaoSming]

I coached a game of high school summer league. I knew the kids were undefeated with only a few games left so I asked them what is more important, winning, or getting even playing time. They said winning, so that's what I did. We ended up winning but a few of the less coordinated players didn't play as much.

Got yelled at by the coach, parents, and my friend I was filling in for, so I'm retired at 1-0.

[dare]

coaches stick to their own decision.

Edit: 2-0 so far, it was a pretty close match we won the game 49-41. One of my player nails 5 three pointers.

[Patr1ck]

Especially since it was summer league, you should have let the less coordinated players play more. They need that playing time.

[NovU]

Got yelled at by the coach, parents, and my friend I was filling in for, so I'm retired at 1-0.

What was the reason they were yelling at you? Did you sit Kobe in crunch time or something? Lolz.

[JaoSming]

No, I sat the Luke Waltons and the Adam Morrisons.

When I played, we took that summer league seriously, like, there were fights over it. The guys on the team I coached still took it seriously and wanted to win. Everyone played, and played reasonably good minutes, but it wasn't even minutes for everyone.

[Mavs4Life]

No, I sat the Luke Waltons and the Adam Morrisons.

When I played, we took that summer league seriously, like, there were fights over it. The guys on the team I coached still took it seriously and wanted to win. Everyone played, and played reasonably good minutes, but it wasn't even minutes for everyone.

Practice begins nect week for me. One week practice, then the leauge starts. i'm excited. I play my Adam Morrison's sometimes, but only to teach the some of the klids that hog the ball that, they're not gonna be on the court all the time.