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Megan Leuick and Kaitlyn Cresencia have created a website titled ‘The Coaching Assist.’ What they do is target various coaches and then do a comprehensive 30 minute interview via telephone and then put those thoughts their website. They also include book reviews.
They recently interviewed Bob Starkey, the mastermind behind the popular blog Hoop Thoughts. Coach Starkey’s career began at the high school level and includes stints of time on both the men’s and women’s sides of the collegiate game.
The following excerpt is from that interview regarding the importance of correcting your players in a quick and efficient manner so that they can get the important information and move onto the next play without focusing on the present and future as oppose to previous mistakes. You can find the full article here.
John Wooden had a rule where he tried his best to never
lecture his players or spend
too much time making a point; brevity and conciseness were valued during his
teaching.
In Coach Starkey’s experiences he’s seen coaches who will stop practice and talk for extended periods of time and others who are quick and concise. Coach Starkey shared with us the example that Rick Pitino has the “8-second” rule where coaches in his program only have eight seconds to make a coaching correction.
Coach Bob Knight is also someone he referred to in being able to correct and teach something with as few words as possible. Overall, you don’t want players to harp on the last mistake. To manage this, he used Don Meyer’s famous acronym “N.B.A.” or “Next Best Action.” Neither the score, time on the clock, or even the last play, should steal your concentration from a total focused effort for the next possession.
In Coach Starkey’s experiences he’s seen coaches who will stop practice and talk for extended periods of time and others who are quick and concise. Coach Starkey shared with us the example that Rick Pitino has the “8-second” rule where coaches in his program only have eight seconds to make a coaching correction.
Coach Bob Knight is also someone he referred to in being able to correct and teach something with as few words as possible. Overall, you don’t want players to harp on the last mistake. To manage this, he used Don Meyer’s famous acronym “N.B.A.” or “Next Best Action.” Neither the score, time on the clock, or even the last play, should steal your concentration from a total focused effort for the next possession.
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"Some coaches are like Twitter and can get it across in 140 characters or less. Others are like Facebook and need two or three paragraphs."
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