Category: SJI Coaches Corner

Following up our earlier blog, “Evaluating the Past Season”, we want to suggest another method for evaluating the past season and then preparing a master plan for the upcoming season.

This is a method that I utilized for many seasons and one that requires someone on the team bench take notes during the game. These notes can be comments by the head coach, the assistants, or just things that the note taker notices during the game. At the end of the season, these comments can be compiled into a master list, with an indication of the number of times the topics appear in the notes. The topics appearing at the greatest frequency then become the areas that need work in order to have the team make progress. Many teams also use these notes during time outs and to review before half-time talks.

I have provided a sample of a hypothetical season for you to see how this works. In this document, “Master List“, you will find a list of the topics and the number of times that they appeared in the game notes.

You can then create a second list “Summary” which contains all of topics that appeared 20 or more times during the season and assume that these are the areas that need the most attention going into the next season. This list can also contain some analysis of the topic and what needs to be done to improve that specific topic.

I hope this idea, along with those in the earlier blogs help you in evaluating your season and in preparing for the next one.

Some of this information have you interested? Keep an eye on our blog for more thoughts throughout the summer as we continue this series of comments from our Owner and President Jim Walker. Want to hear about a topic specifically? Email us at info@sportsjourneysinternational.com and we will try to accommodate all requests.

Are you thinking of taking an international team tour in 2019? How about 2020, or the future? We would love to help you get started planning today. Whether it’s Ireland, any of our alternative sample tours, or even somewhere else you had in mind. Contact us, or call us at 610-390-9298 for more details.

If you are interested in videos from the past 30+ years of Greyhound Coaches Clinic’s please complete this form to order them by mail.

We are following up the introduction of our new blog series, featuring our Owner and President Jim Walker and his thoughts on off-season planning and evaluation, with a list of websites that you might find helpful while doing your summer planning. Just like players, coaches need to constantly strive to improve their coaching and knowledge of the game. So here are ten websites with free, or mostly free, helpful tools for coaches. Also if you missed our first edition of #SJIcoachescorner click here to read about Michigan Coach John Beilein’s planning notes, along with a “playing to your strengths” evaluation.

https://www.hoopcoach.org/

https://coachingtoolbox.net

http://team.fastmodelsports.com/

https://basketballhq.com/

http://basketball.coachesdirectory.com/

https://www.basketballforcoaches.com

https://nothingbutsets.weebly.com/

http://www.championshipproductions.com/news/

https://winninghoops.com/

https://pickandpop.net/

Some of this information have you interested? Keep an eye on our blog for more thoughts throughout the summer as we continue this series of comments from our Owner and President Jim Walker. Want to hear about a topic specifically? Email us at info@sportsjourneysinternational.com and we will try to accommodate all requests.

Are you thinking of taking an international team tour in 2019? How about 2020, or the future? We would love to help you get started planning today. Whether it’s Ireland, any of our alternative sample tours, or even somewhere else you had in mind. Contact us, or call us at 610-390-9298 for more details.

If you are interested in videos from the past 30+ years of Greyhound Coaches Clinic’s please complete this form to order them by mail.

No matter how successful your past season was, it is important to evaluate what your team has done (and maybe what they didn’t do) to move on to the next season. Here are some personal thoughts that I have used in the past, along with 2 documents that you might find helpful during your evaluation.

John Beilein spoke at the 2013 Greyhound Coaches Clinic and his topic was planning your upcoming season based on your assessment of the past season. His previous season was the 2012-2013 season and planning for the 2013-2014 season was an ongoing process. He kept his notes in his pocket and they were organized into the following topics:

• 2012-2013 Keys: (consisting of 7 items) Keep Emphasizing!
• Some Things Never Change: (consisting of 10 items) Keep Teaching!
• Things That Are Changing: (consisting of 18 items) Embrace the things that are changing!

All of these points were an interesting way to look back on a 31-8, and national runner-up, season. Here you can find a summary of these notes.

Another way to evaluate your past season is to look at the following:

• Strengths (How can we use them to win more games)
• Oks (How do we improve into strengths)
• Weaknesses (How do we move them to Ok?).

Here you can find an additional document for “playing to your strengths” evaluations.

If you are interested in videos from the past 30+ years of Greyhound Coaches Clinic’s please complete this form to order them by mail.

Some of this information have you interested? Keep an eye on our blog for more thoughts throughout the summer as we introduce this new series of comments from our Owner and President Jim Walker. Want to hear about a topic specifically? Email us at info@sportsjourneysinternational.com and we will try to accommodate all requests.

Are you thinking of taking an international team tour in 2019? How about 2020, or the future? We would love to help you get started planning today. Whether it’s Ireland, any of our alternative sample tours, or even somewhere else you had in mind. Contact us, or call us at 610-390-9298 for more details.