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Motivation is probably the single most important factor affecting the rate at which players acquire skill and perform well.
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Positive motivational techniques have greater long term payoffs than do negative motivational techniques.
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Feedback is a necessary condition for effective learning.
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Artificial feedback can be effectively used to create a better learning situation.
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Clear goals are important to effective learning.
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Practice must be active and purposeful for all participants in order to be effective.
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Players learn to perform well under the stress of game conditions when some stress is introduced into practice sessions.
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The length of the practice session, if well planned and not beyond reason, should not affect the amount of learning.
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Mental practice can improve learning and performance.
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Skills and strategies should be learned as meaningful wholes.
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Skills should be learned somewhere near the speed at which they will be performed.
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Verbalization by the coach is of limited usefulness and should seldom replace active participation.
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Modeling is a powerful learning method and should be utilized frequently.14.
Practices will be most conducive to learning when clear goals and consequences are stated and utilized.
A FEW JACKSONISMS
1. Dribble penetrate into the paint to pass not shoot. If you dribble penetrate looking to pass then you'll find the open receiver and if you are open you will be able to find the goal because you know your court geography. But if you dribble penetrate looking to score and the shot is cut off, now you have to hurry and find the open receiver.
2. Follow a layup shooter. Most missed layup come directly back in the direction they were shot. So whether on offense or defense follow the layup shooter.
3. Follow the player jumping out of bounds to save a ball. 90% of the time the player will throw the ball back in directly behind himself (along the path he traveled to save the ball).
4. On a baseline drive fill the opposite corner ready to shoot.
5. There are three things on Offense and three things on Defense that if you accomplish, regardless of your style of play, will aid in your team being successful
OFFENSE:
(a) take care of the basketball - eliminate turnovers
(b) take good shots
(c) make your free throws
DEFENSE:
(a) make them shoot over you
(b) only give them one shot
(c) don't foul unnecessarily.
6. If there is a time-out, your opponent is playing man-to-man and it is the opponent's ball coming out of the time-out. Make a substitution, and run a play for the substitute. He may be left wide open.
7. Teach your small guards to hit the floor after a layup attempt has been blocked.
8. Screen the zone.
9. If you screen in your offense (man-to-man or zone) it is more important to teach how to use a screen than it is to teach how to set a screen. A player who knows how to use a screen can use a bad screen. But a great screen is useless if the player coming off the screen doesn¡¦t know how to use it.
10. GIVE your team a free throw routine. We all know that it is important in free throw shooting to have a routine. BUT how do you really know if all 10-12 varsity players are doing their individual routine each time they shoot a free throw? If you GIVE them the routine, now everyone has the same routine, now you know when a player isn't following his routine.
11. A player NEVER calls time out on his own. NEVER! You tell the player when to call time out. In the last two minutes of the game you may say, "we have three time outs left call one if you get in trouble.!¨ But he is still not calling it on his own.
12. The same player inbounds the ball on every inbounds situation. A Designated Inbounder. If the Designated Inbounder is not in the game you have a #2 Designated Inbounder. When the ball is being inbounded is the only time in the game that the defense out numbers the offense on the court.
13. The most important part of defense is Defensive Rebounding!
14. If your players don't understand what they are doing; they are not really doing it.
15. On a missed "Pass & Catch" situation BOTH the passer and receiver are credited with a turnover.
16. Work on the Pass Fake and the Shot Fake every day in practice, otherwise they will never use them
17. Offensive rebounding has to be taught and more importantly practiced.
18. The Little things aren't Little.
19. Your program is the most important program. I never wear Houston Rocket clothing, Lamar University clothing, I wear Deweyville Pirate clothing! And that is what the players wear at games! They can wear caps as long as they are Deweyville Pirate caps.
20. Refer to yourself as "we" and "us¡".
21. If your best player isn't your hardest working player you may be in for a long season.
22. Fake a pass to Make a pass.
23. Good passers make good shooters.
24. Defense starts with footwork.
25. Conditioning will make you a better player.
Being a better player will make us a better team.
Conditioning is something the best teams have.
Therefore, Conditioning is a privilege.
The better you do, the more we will run.
26. Finish practice on a positive note.
27. You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but if you aren't careful you'll be one of them .
28. When in danger, when in doubt,
Run in circles, scream and shout!
If you try to give your team too much = confusion.
29. RULE OF PROBABILITY
Once the ball goes into the low post player, if the post can encourage the defender to make an aggressive attempt to block the shot, then the probability of a foul being committed will be high.
Basketball consists of predicting your opponent's actions sufficiently to encourage him to commit himself to a probability of failure.
30. Coach = Teacher / Good teachers ask good questions.
31. "I only use statistics that reinforce what I already think." -- Dean Smith
32. "The Team is the Star." -- John Wooden
33. "Other people go to work. I get to coach basketball. I know I'm blessed." -- Jim Valvano
34. Study the Masters of the Game: Adolph Rupp, Bruce Drake, Henry Iba, Pete Newell, Lou Carneseca, Ralph Miller, Don Haskins, John Wooden, Ray Meyer, etc.
35. Call coaches and ask them about their program. I will always remember as a junior at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, I called Ralph Miller to ask him about his 1-4 High Offense. He spoke with me for two hours. I was in heaven ---- until I got my phone bill.
36. Things that get rewarded get done.
37. If you reward OK effort, you'll get OK effort. Only reward great effort.
38. The best and most lasting form of reinforcement is positive and VERBAL!
39. Execution is the best offense.
40. Borrow, don't copy!
41. Write it down!
(1) At half-time of your games why do you take your teams into the dressing room? What can you do in the dressing room that cannot be done on the court? If they want to visit the restroom that can be done. But have you ever kept a team in the dressing too long at half time "chewing" them out and it cause you to have a slow start in the 3rd quarter?
(2) Do you have the same player always inbound the ball in all inbound situations? When the University of Houston had their great Phi Slamma Jamma Team, this team of great athletes had a player come off the bench on all dead ball throw in situations to inbound the ball (I think his name was Reid Gettys). Why not have the same player inbound the ball in ALL situations. Make him a specialist.
(3) Do you chart your defense? or just your offense?
(4) I'm sure you all have or considered using this tactic. At the start of the 3rd quarter line three of your players up under the opponents basket. Have your inbounder inbound the ball to your point guard in hopes that the defense is guarding their own basket. I'M SURE YOU'VE DONE IT OR THOUGHT ABOUT IT. Here is what we are going to do this season. And I don't care if our opponents know this or not. In fact the more that know about it the better it will work.
HERE WE GO: Start of the 3rd Quarter Our Ball. WE WILL LINE IN THIS WRONG FASHION EVERYTIME!!!!!!!!!! I know what you are going to say. If you do it everytime then no one will fall for it. That is right until the ONE (or two times) time we line up at the right basket and being the good coach the opponent has his team prepared for our lining up at the wrong basket. So they go to the opposite basket than we do. And we get an easy score.
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Best Swishes,
Larry Jackson
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The Best Day of My Life Ever
Today, when I awoke, I suddenly realized that this is the best day of my life, ever!
There were times when I wondered if I would make it to today; but I did! And because I did I'm going to celebrate!
Today, I'm going to elebrate what an unbelievable life I have had so far: the accomplishments, the many blessings, and, yes, even the hardships because they haved served to make me stronger.
I will go through this day with my head held high, and a happy heart. I will marvel at God's seemingly simple gifts: the morning dew, the sun, the clouds, the trees, the flowers, the birds. Today, none of these miraculous creations will escape my notice.
Today I will share my excitement for life with other people. I'll make someone smile. I'll go out of my way to perform an unexpected act of kindness for someone I don't even know. Today, I'll give a sincere compliment to someone who seems down. I'll tell a child how special they are, and I'll tell someone I love just how deeply I care for her and how much she means to me.
Toady is the day I quit worrying about what I don't have and start being frateful for all the wonderful things God has already given me. I'll remember that to worry is just a waste of time because my faith in God and His "Divine Plan" ensures everything will be just fine.
And tonight, before I go to bed, I'll go outside and raise my eyes to the sky. I will stand in awe at the beauty of the stars and the moon, and I will praise God for these magnificent treasures.
As the day ends and I lay down on my pillow, I will thank myHeavenly Father for the best day of my life. And I will sleep the sleep of a contented child, excited with expectation because I know tomorrow is going to be the best day of my life, ever!
