My Basketball Booklist

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Happy New Year to you and all the best for 2012! It’s going to be a great year and I hope you have spent the last week with your loved ones and had a good time!

To start this year off right, I’d like to share with you my list of coaching books I’ve gathered over the time and which are well worth the read. A lot of you have been asking me on which books I’d recommend for getting a good start into coaching or for drills.

These are all books I have written in English. I still got a bunch of German books, which I didn’t list here. So, here it is … the list of basketball books in my shelf, which will be updated frequently.

Review: BallSide.com – Easy Team Management for Coaches

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Today I want to tell you about a website, BallSide.com, I’ve discovered some time ago. BallSide.com was developed at the German Sports University in Cologne and has been online since early 2010.

Disclosure: I’ve been provided with a scout account to have a close up look at their offered service! Nonetheless this will not affect my opinions I will be sharing with you in the following articles.

In short, coaches can use this free Basketball Coaching Software to easily organize their teams, analyze detailed player and team statistics, and save a lot of time by doing this. For example, it is no longer necessary to create elaborate mailing lists, only to find out that the e-mail address of a player is wrong and you are not able to get important information out to the right place.

Thoughts on your Coaching Philosophy

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It is quite difficult to tackle things about philosophy. It requires a deeper sense of understanding in order to conceptualize what philosophy is all about. Before you even begin to formulate your coaching philosophy, try to consider and answer the following questions: Why are you coaching? What type of coach do you want to become? And who are you going to coach? These are relevant questions that will guide you and help you develop your own coaching philosophy. Coaching embraces a very huge responsibility to yourself, to the staff, and to your players.

How to get started in Basketball Coaching

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Have you ever been to a basketball game? It is the dream of a lot of young boys to grow up and join a professional basketball league. But there are also athletes who prefer to become trainers in this sport, rather than actors in the game. Perhaps, they would have also asked about how they could become as coaches instead of professional players. Coaching basketball is a rewarding task that you can make a career out of, or you just want to volunteer for the sake of leisure.

Becoming a coach is a realistic goal for many people of all ages and genders. It does not matter if you are a high school, fresh out of college, or even if you have played college basketball decades ago and now want to give back, you will probably find something. All it takes is determination, hard work and willingness to learn.

Review: Coachdeck Basketball Drills

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This is my first review out of a series of Basketball products for coaches and players alike. During my years of coaching I have gathered a lot of useful coaching equipment I’d like to tell you about. If you’d like me to review a product or if you have a suggestions, I’d be happy if you get in touch with me!

In this review I will be looking at a Coachdeck Basketball Drills for coaches. Here’s the product description:

What is it?
Basically, it is a collection of basketball drills to use in your practices or at home with your parents or friends. The interesting part is, that all of these drills can be performed by novices and without any special equipment besides … well, a hoop and a basketball.