Notes from a behind the scenes look at a UConn women's basketball practice.
1 - Culture
2 - Good players
3 - Holding them accountable every second of every practice
0:10 - What
we are trying to do is put you guys in situations where you get to see for
yourself without being told. There will
be times we won’t have the opportunity to just stop the game and go okay,
timeout and let’s talk this over.
There
are going to be times where you guys are going to have to figure it out on your
own. Certain individuals are going to
have to step up and make big time plays.
Not when we are up 25, not in the first 5 minutes; I’m talking about
when you’re in deep shit and everybody is so tired that you can’t see
straight. That’s when somebody has to
make big plays.
1:05
– Nothing in a game can match the challenges that the players face during a
typical Huskies practice.
- Sue Bird
- Sue Bird
1:43
– I think our goal every year is to help our players develop and get better and
to have each player add something to their game to get them to play at the
highest level that they are capable of and to play harder than everybody else,
every day of practice, and that translates to doing it in the game.
2:32
– I think you are trying to work on their mental toughness and pushing
through. Learning while you’re tired and
learning that you can pay attention, you can execute and make the right pass
because if you can’t make the right pass now then you’re definitely not going
to make the play in April (March).
2:52
– You don’t ever see a player come in here and leave the same player; they are
always better. NO matter if they were
the best player or the walk-on, they always leave a better player. That is preparation basketball-wise and that
is preparation for life.
3:22
– The things that we do in our practice aren’t different than what everybody
else does. We do the same drills as
everybody else; it’s how we do them and who we are doing them with.
3:55
– ‘How much of your success is based off what you do in practice?’
– The
majority of their success is based on the culture that they have that has been
created and instilled over the course of 29 years; that is part 1. Part 2 is we happened to have a lot of really
good players year in and year out. Part
3 is how personally accountable we hold each and every player on our team,
every minute of every day during those 2 hours that we are out there – in every
single thing that we do.
You
take the culture that they have to live up to, the fact that we have LOTS of
really good players, and the fact that every minute of every day they can’t be
anything less that great, then that accounts for winning all of the games that
we’ve won.
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