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"Get After It!" with Coach "B"
  "Get After It!” has been a battle cry for my teams for many years, so it seemed fitting to title this column “Gett’in After It.”  “It” is something personal for everyone, simply, it’s doing one’s best during on the court but actually it’s more than one’s best, “It” is finding what it takes to succeed – giving more than you thought you ever could give.  This concept can be applied to anything . . . so I’ll try to apply it here each month.  Feel free to send any questions or topics to the website for discussion.   In most cases I’ll try to keep this targeted towards coaching any age group.  Regardless of the age group or setting (recreation, AAU, or school), coaching be rewarding and very challenging.  What exactly a coach is and the role they play differs in many opinions, so I thought sharing my idea of what a coach is would be an appropriate start, and I’ll start with one word – Leader.          
Leadership is sometimes difficult to define, but I’ll draw on my military background and define it as an art of influencing and directing people to accomplish a goal.  I like this definition because it leaves room to be flexible.  As a coach we must be flexible because we deal with different personalities of players and parents, who together must achieve our goal of  . . .?  Well, that differs too doesn’t it?  As a coach, my overall goal is to be a positive influence on players.  My objective is to help them see and reach their potential as a player and more importantly as a person.  To achieve this, a coach must recognize different needs of different players (and actually different parents too, but that can be a topic in itself).  Coaches must be teachers, dictators, and mentors, all depending on the situation.  
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Guest
2010-01-18

1st time basketball coach

I have coached girls youth volleyball in the past and this is my first year coaching girls youth basketball. Your site has been very helpful for drills to use and just what to do with girls just starting out playing basketball. THanks!!!

Guest
2009-12-22

Awesome site!
Very useful site, will recommend to other coaches!  Thanks!!!

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2007-03-12

Recommend to all Youth Basketball Coaches.
This is a wonderful website that has many helpful videos and information to become a better basketball player, coach, and team. I recommend every person in a basketball program.  Jibby from California!

Guest
2007-03-07

Very Helpful! Thanks.
This is such an informative website, I like the video's and and information on different drills and plays. Well I just like it all. I will be ordering some booklets and Cd's! I am excited about using it to help my basketball players improve their skills. Thank you for creating this and providing people with such valuable information on basketball.

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2007-03-07

Valuable Resource
This web site looks great! There is so much information available that it's hard to believe it's free! I have spent a great deal of time looking up information that I now have at my fingertips on one site! This is really a valuable resource! Thanks!

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2007-03-03

The Best!
This site is the best!  I liked it a lot.  Tons of useful information for everyone.  Any team that uses this stuff will surely increase their winning percentage. 

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2007-02-17

Great Site!
Very nicely done web site.  I'll be coming back time and time again!


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