Michael Carter Williams Syracuse PG

Would you rather have 20 points or 10 assists?

10 Assists, that means my teammates are involved and that's harder to defend.


All point guards needs to understand this dynamic.

Taking a Charge? Ju Jitsu breakfall

Ole Miss, same formation with different option out of the package

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW7hp7SiRsQ&feature=youtu.be&t=38m12s

The Tecmo Bowl Principal, very simple concept with a ton of options that leads to depth.

For basketball coaches, think about your inbounds plays, start with a base play that will work all the time, with multiple options.  Now why wouldn't it work?

They switch
They hedge and help
They run stick coverage
They run a match-up zone against it

Make sure you're players read the initial options then have counters to stuff they can't read themselves.

Growth Mindset

The brain is a muscle, it can be worked out, strengthened so that you can get smarter.

Nobody laughs at a baby cuz its dumb.

Fixed mindset= "I have a bad teacher"

Growth mindset= Working hard isn't something that makes you vulnerable, its something that makes you better.

The growth mindset can be taught!

Act like a coach, not a scorekeeper.  The goal is not just to win, its to get better.

Real change is often 3 steps up and 2 back. Failure will be part of the deal.

How to get better

Fixed vs Growth mindset

Do you actually think you can get better?
If you want to get better you must have a growth mindset.

Tortoise vs Hair= the longterm view will allow you to get better, to reach your goal down the road

I can tell you listened!
You worked hard on this assignment!
You got better today!
all growth mindset


You are so good at basketball!
fixed mindset

Enthusiasm

I love this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson about enthusiasm: "Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Rodney Stuckey

Rodney Stuckey had a tough time getting through high school academically, but then when he got to Eastern, he made all big sky academic.  He finally got one on one attention when he got there.

From an away game this past season, in the home locker room

Bo Ryan

Coach Ryan why does your team have so many turnovers right now?

"Well we're trying to make too many great plays instead of just making the good ones."

Tom Brady and Russell Wilson

Tom Brady and Russell Wilson were good because they understood their first job wasn't to throw touchdowns, it was to not throw interceptions.

Jim Larranaga

We're gonna have more fun than any other team in the country,

What is fun?  It ain't screwing around.  It's playing well! it's showing out! That's what's FUN!

At younger levels of basketball

Usually the coaches who play zone defense at younger levels are assuming that the teams they will play are bad, the ones that play man to man are assuming that the teams they will play are good.


Key to being good at higher levels= assume everyone is better than you.

Dean Oliver the four factors from sportingcharts.com

Sporting Charts explains The Four Factors

The first of the four factors is shooting. Effective Field Goal Percentage is used to determine team shooting efficiency. Turnovers are the next factor, and Turnover Percentage is the metric of choice for turnover efficiency.

Rebounding is the third factor, and Offensive Rebound Percentage is the analogous metric. Last of the four factors are free throws. Free Throw Rate tells us how effective a team is at getting to the foul line and converting those opportunities into points.

Dean Oliver, who is credited with creating this concept, has assigned weights to each of the four factors. He has determined that shooting is most important (40 percent), followed by turnovers (25 percent), rebounding (20 percent) and free throws (15 percent).

Each of the four factors can also be calculated for the defensive end of the floor

 essentially expanding the number of factors to eight. Interestingly, even though it is possible to create an overall team rating with The Four Factors, one rarely sees the data put together that way. The Four Factors are most often used to compare a team's strengths/weaknesses to another team's strengths/weaknesses in the four individual statistical categories.

Brad Stevens

When asked about Bucknell's defense he was conscious of their effective fg percentage defense

Effective fg %=

eFG% = (.5 x 3PM + FG) / FGA

Now after doing some research if you want to factor in ft shooting=

TS% = PTS / ((.44 x FTA + FGA) x 2)

the second formula should definitely tell you who is the more efficient scorer.

Bob Knight Quote from Sportcenter

"I never understood why after hitting a home run guys would cross home plate and then point to the sky to thank God, by that logic God gave the pitcher a raw deal. You hit a home run because of your preparation.........God doesn't work that way in my mind."

Awesome music video

Some interesting thoughts

The jump rope analogy
Pace of you skipping
Ability to go faster
How to limit mistakes
Difference between playing and trainin
How all this equates to good amd bad teams, pace and practice and training.

The difference between basketball and football    sample size

Football 24 possesions between two teams, basketball 80 possesions between two teams

The 4 L's of Leadership

LUCKY                                                                          LEADING
 win                                                                                     win
but with little understanding of why you won                  with a clear understanding of why you won


LOSING                                                                         LEARNING
lose                                                                                     lose
but with little understanding of why you lost                   with a clear understanding of why you lost

Review of The Power of Negative Thinking

"Having the will to win is not enough. Everyone has that. What matters is having the will to prepare to win."

Another point Knight makes is to not push people to do what they can't do, but push them to do what they can. It seems so logical, and yet we ignore this every day:

"My list of hollow platitudes includes the idea that You Can Do Anything You Really Want to Do. The truth is you can't. Chalk it up to the Divine Being's grand plan for making the whole world work because of interdependence, but the fact is each of us has more things that we cannot do well than we can. That's why society has doctors and plumbers and electricians and mechanics and every other Craiglist specialist."

The point is that whether you are pushing yourself, or running a team, you need to have a clear understanding not only of your strengths, but also an honest assessment of your weaknesses. The inability to do something is not a character flaw (as is not-so-subtly implied when you are told "If you really want to do it, you can"). The Negative Thinker recognizes the strengths and weaknesses in his team and, instead of pushing people to do what they can't do, pushes them to do what they can to best take advantage of their talents.

Kevin spacey is a beast

Watch "Quotes of Congressman Francis Underwood , House of Cards" on YouTube

Bob knight

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was "It will be O.K." I would wonder, How the hell is it going to be O.K.? The worst word in the English language is "hope."

Taken in context 

Like mike lombardi
"Don't confuse hope for a plan."