Developing Team Work in your players

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As a coach, your job is complicated. You need to take a number of very different skill sets and personalities and mold them together into a unit, which can work well in a very coordinated way. At the most basic level, a team which works well together has more of a chance of winning a game than a team, which has problems functioning in a cohesive fashion. That being said, you may wonder what some methods of team building are and how to use them with your own group of players in order to prepare them for the challenges ahead.

In my opinion, one of the biggest problems facing any team is change. It doesn’t matter what level you are playing at because there will always be changes to the make-up of your team, from year to year or season to season. You will find that players who have been together through several years have a better chance of working well together because they have played together before got to know eachother. Introducing new players into an existing team dynamic can be a problem since it can upset an already established order.

This week on Layups.com – #16 (2010)

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On Layups.com I’ll publish articles on a daily basis. For those of you who do not have the time to visit daily, here’s is a good place to get a quick overview of the last articles. The Weekly Roundup will be published on each Sunday of the week. Please feel free to revisit and comment.

Over the course of a week, I visit several websites and blogs to read articles on what is going on in the Basketball Coaching Network. Along with the Weekly Round of articles published here on Layups.com, I’d like to share with you some of the greatest articles I found on the web. You can find all previous links right here in the Speedlinking Archive.

Portraits of top NCAA Coaches: Mike Krzyzewski

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“Krzyzewskiville.” That’s the name give to the annually constructed waiting line that appears prior to Duke University Blue Devil home basketball games. Once per year (before the school’s game against arch rival, the University of North Carolina Tar Heels) the school allows for “tenting” meaning that up to a week before the game students will occupy up to 100 tents (the maximum capacity allowed) in order to get tickets. Each tent can hold up to twelve students. Students must have at least 1 person per tent during periodic checks and some tents, even after students have waited the entire period to get tickets, not everybody is guaranteed a seat in Cameron Indoor Stadium. After reading this paragraph, the nickname given to the university’s basketball fans “Cameron Crazies” makes sense.

All of this madness at one of America’s top universities can be attributed to one man: Mike Krzyzewski, the man who turned a mediocre program into the personification of college basketball.

8 Ways to encourage a Bench Player

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Basketball is one of the sports which requires a certain number of players. Unfortunately, you cannot let all the players into the game all at the same time as only five are allowed on-court. These first five players are usually the most talented ones in the team and when they ran out of gas, a coach can bring in his second or third unit. At times, the second, or third, unit of the team can be given ample amount of playing time if they are playing more effectively than the first unit.

However, if the first unit has been playing so well, the chance of bringing in players other than this unit is low. Those who are not given the chance to play are said to be bench players. From the word bench itself, it implies that these players have longer time of sitting on the bench rather than playing. People think that bench players are not good enough. Is this true? Well, if you are a bench player, do not succumb to this idea.

Layups.com Speedlinking #002

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Over the course of a week, I visit several websites and blogs to read articles on what is going on in the Basketball Coaching Network. Along with the Weekly Round of articles published here on Layups.com, I’d like to share with you some of the greatest articles I found on the web. You can find all previous links right here in the Speedlinking Archive.