Hi Everyone:
Welcome to The Coach's Box, brought to you by X's & O's Basketball. I am an avid reader of blogs on coaching basketball. There are so many of them to read...if you haven't tried it yet, google it. In this day of technology and immediate sharing of information, there is not a better way to keep up-to-date on news, topics, or concepts relevant to coaching basketball than a blog. If I want the latest notes from a coaches clinic, I can find it on a blog. If I'm craving the most recent news or rumors on a coaching vacancy, I can find it in a blog or chat forum. When I want to see how one region of the country, or for that matter, the globe, approaches coaching or playing basketball, I can find it at the tips of my fingers. This should be an ideal way for me to improve my coaching skills and refine my coaching philosophy.
So, what has prompted me to start this blog? There is one primary reason. I'm not that arrogant to think that I have some new-found wisdom or forethought into coaching or the game of basketball that I need to share with my colleagues, but I have found that over the years, I have learned quite a bit about the game and working with people and teams. When I write these thoughts down, it helps to crystallize and sharpen what I think is important about building teams or how to approach situations on and off the court. So this is as much for me as it is for you the reader. In a sense, this is my simple way of opening up my process to you, sharing with you what I have learned and have come to believe is important and to quote a friend, put my "science" of the game on display to see if it stands up to the informed coach. So anything relevant to the game or teams is up for discussion.
Why the name, "The Coach's Box?" Well...in that 6-foot area in front of your bench on a basketball court, you can see so much of the game. Your vantage point is within arms-reach of all the action, giving you a chance to have a virtual experience of the game. Transversely, sometimes the most important activity is happening behind you on the bench, with the rest of your team and coaching staff. For a coach, aside from being center court in practice, that is where you want to be in order to affect the game instantly. So, together, we all step into the coach's box to learn.
I welcome comments or questions. It will get me thinking. I hope that these posts will get you thinking. What a coach does in the lives of young people is too important not too analyze and reflect on how we do our job to build up teams and communities. So let's get to it...
