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5 January 2014 hoopnotes.wordpress.com Julian Fields 2014

DVD REVIEW: MIKE DUNLAP, 10 POINTS FOR BETTER COACHING

Category : Clinic Notes DVD Reviews

Mike Dunlap

St. Johns University

Assistant Coach

INTRODUCTION What are you doing to improve yourself as a coach, teacher and a person? Are you enjoying what you are doing? Am I doing things as a coach to improve daily or each year? Jot down notes that are important to you.

1. ONE MORE THEORY What am I doing to reach out to a person who can help with a topic? i.e. recruiting, psychology, etc. Enhancing your network to draw upon for information. What are you going to do with this information? i.e. methodology of teaching. Work the phones. Reach out and make contact with colleagues. Networking means: How many people can we steal from?

READ: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

2. YOU CANNOT SEE WHAT YOU DON'T THINK We are on a quest to gain knowledge. How you do this comes down to reading. Write down your knowledge, add to the volumes as you go along. What are you doing to enhance your knowledge becoming a better coach, teacher and person? Players will

see you as the walking example of whatever you are trying to get across to them.

Establish a DVD file on basketball. Do you reach out to the NBA / professional teams regarding post entry, pick and roll, stance, etc? They are

leading the way.

QUOTE: First sign of intelligence is admitting you don't know something and then going to get the answer.

3. PRAISE, PROMPT & LEAVE When you are trying to correct something in your session:

1) Praise he/she about something you like;

2) Prompt by proving further correction;

3) Then get an acknowledgement, i.e. do you see what I mean or do you hear what I'm saying?

Once you get this response, leave them alone. Give them time to make that improvement. Trust that theywill make it happen.

READ: Positive Classroom Instruction OR Tools For Teaching by Frederick Jones

READ: Madeline Hunter, Master Teacher from UCLA


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4. F IVE LAWS OF LEARNING John Wooden. How players learn.

1) Tell them what you want them to know;

2) Show them what you want them to do;

3) Slowly demonstrate what you are telling and showing them;

4) Demonstration and correction at a slow pace;

5) Repetition.

This laws of leaning CANNOT be breached. Repetition with a game speed drill with time a score to consolidate the learning. This law is fundamental to every tremendous teacher out there. Mistakes are made when one of the steps are aborted. Players and/or coaching staff become frustrated.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Repetition (fun part is competition, time and score)

5. NAP, SNACK & PLAY You will end up with burnout unless you learn to take a cup of coffee, spend time with someone in your

building, etc.

Coaching is a stressful profession. Coaching is an energy based endeavour. Take time everyday with acouple of things that you like. As time goes on, you must regenerate yourself with things that are important.QUOTE: Inch by inch, life is a synch Yard by yard, things gets hard.

6. FACES CHANGE BUT PROBLEMS REMAIN THE SAME Direct reference to those drills that you like that are important to you. Make sure your process and direction is going in the same way of what your branding is, i.e. turnovers,

defensive pressure, fullcourt press, etc. Weave this into your practice plan.

Make sure you get your building blocks in. A practice plan has a good pace to it, like a good drum role. Youmay need to rewrite it many times to get it exactly right.

WHAT MAKES A GOOD DRILL:

Time 5 to 10 mins.

Score Record of individual or team.

Rotation The teaching point is when they get to the sideline, not in the drill, i.e. do

not constantly stop the drill (talk when the player goes off the floor, or get

the assistant coach to do so).

Element of Confusion Some sort of surprise that directly links itself to the unpredictability of the

game.

Name Your Drill If you want a self fulfilling prophesy or a branding of a drill, call a player

"champ" or "runner", i.e. to the name what you want him to do. Labelling isvery important. This will help with echo teaching.

THOUGHT: Be a person who is interested in concepts, details and process.

7. GOOD HABITS ARE HARD TO BREAK Alluding to your practice plan. How much time do you put into the plan? John Wooden - 2hrs each day, no phones, just him and his assistants. His assistants knew what to say, where

to stand and when and how to provide feedback.

Like a good term paper, the rewrite is really important. Coaches do not spend enough time on this. Good habits are going to show up on your practice plan. Review it. Reusing old practice plans will lead to staleness. Players will read through this. Ask yourself for each drill: What do I want from this drill? Ask yourself: Did we get better today? Forget about yesterday, don't know tomorrow.


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