November 27, 2023 | Tagged Coaching
Coaching with Foresight
Think of coaching like farming. You have fields for preparation, sowing, and harvesting. Preparation includes imagining your role in encouraging the youngest populations to build talent for the future. At NBC Basketball, our elementary focus is habit building. Habits are crucial for basketball success. This includes footwork, pivoting, shooting, offensive moves, passing, defensive positioning, and developing a winner’s mindset. In middle school, our focus shifted to solidifying fundaments and introducing pattern recognition, decision making, and beginning to recognize the strategy and intuition of the game.
As the players elevate into high school and college, NBC Basketball looks to build athletes coaches must have on the court. This transformational player makes the team better through high-percentage shooting, tenacious defense, wise decisions, vocal and inspirational leadership, and service to the team. This framework provides coaches with the emphasis necessary for basketball education. All too often, however, a coach in the elementary levels is robbing students of the fundamental platform, kids come through the system with noticeable fundamental deficits. As seen in so many of the teams in the men’s NCAA tournament, fundamental skills such as dribbling in traffic, converting on the block, accurate shooting, and free throws are glaringly lacking.
These college players are athletic, they are quick, powerful, and assertive but many of them can’t efficiently score which leads to a tournament game with only four points after ten minutes of game time. This is a lack of foresight and comes from a breakdown in coaching mission and philosophy. Coaches failed to develop the shooting skills of these students because as a bottom line, free throw shooting isn’t learned in a game, it’s revealed in a game.
Get committed to the foresight of building successful future players and do all you can to move the needle toward rock-solid fundamentals.
About NBC Basketball
Since 1971, NBC Basketball has become one of the largest and most respected youth sports programs in the world. Operating in six countries, NBC Camps are designed for those who love basketball enough to work hard. Intensity, tenacity, resiliency, wisdom, gratitude, leadership, faith are some of the key values at camp. For more information about NBC Basketball visit www.nbccamps.com.