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PGC/Glazier Coaching Clinic

Winning coaches with a history of success give practical presentations on how you can implement their tactics. More than 50 sessions per clinic, arranged in three-session blocks so speakers can go deep on their topics. We cover offense, defense, strength, conditioning and more. All of your school coaches—including boys, girls and feeder programs—can attend any or all of our clinics through the year for one staff rate.

PGC/Glazier Coaching Clinic

Explore more videos from PGC at their YouTube Channel.

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Youth Basketball & AAU Tournament

There are literally thousands of youth basketball tournament throughout the USA and Canada each year. Most AAU tournaments occur in the Spring after the High School and Middle School seasons have completed. There are several websites to explore if you are looking for listings in your area.

  • Tourney.Life – of course, we like this site because we built it. But it is free and easy to post your tournament details.
  • ExposureEvents – they provide listings for several sports, but have a huge list of basketball tournaments, but tournament directors and organizers do have to pay to take advantage of all the features.
  • ACAHoops.com -they have a decent list of tournaments, but also charge to post your tournament.
  • AAUBoysBasketball.org – of course the AAU site does show many tournaments as well, but it does not represent a comprehensive list of opportunities for your team.
  • …and there are many more to explore.

So as a coach start searching to find the perfect opportunity for your team.

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7 Reasons Your Players can’t shoot the basketball

We love reading Coach Mac’s emails. Learn more about his programs and philosophy at ChampionshipCoachingCourse.com

Here is his list of the 7 reasons your players are not great shooters (yet). Continue reading “7 Reasons Your Players can’t shoot the basketball”

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I love to watch you play!

Discovered ilovetowatchyouplay.com recently and wanted to connect you with the site.

A place for parents seeking balance, sanity and an edge in the crazy world of youth sports.
I Love To Watch You Play

They say “No matter how good your child is or isn’t at playing sports, according to a survey conducted over 30 years by two coaches and athletic administrators what young athletes want to hear most from their parents after a sporting event is,“I love to watch you play.”

 

For some encouragement, read the full article “The Conversation after the Game” by Gordon MacLelland.

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Are you a transformational or transactional coach?

4 questions every coach should ask themselves:

  1. Why do I coach?
  2. Why do I coach the way I do?
  3. What does it feel like to be coached by me?
  4. How do I define success?

Continue reading “Are you a transformational or transactional coach?”

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Front row as an AAU parent

Front row as an AAU parent. Thousands of parents are enjoying AAU games this weekend. We get really used to the view from inside a gym.

We’d love to see a photo of your game. Upload it below.

 

 

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Losing the right way is better than winning the wrong way.

Had the privilege of hearing Jake Locker speak this weekend. Of the many interesting and challenging things he shared, this stood out to me:

Losing the right way is better than winning the wrong way.

How often we can get this confused in youth sports. Winning in the “wrong way” is risky message to teach our kids. The lesson they learn on the court will translate in to their work and family lives.

So what is the “wrong way” to win? Winning by a ref’s bad call, a technicality, or by intentionally hurting a player are a few that come to mind. But a few grey-area wrong ways to win include; intimidate young refs so they don’t call fouls on your team, always foul the shooter, foul overly aggressively, only play the 5 best players, only play 2-3 zone and forcing the other team to shoot, or press the entire game when it is obvious you will win.

In youth basketball some of these tactics mean kids are not being development as complete athletes and basketball players. And if half the kids on your team sit on the bench the entire game just to win you are really only helping 5 kids.

Check out this video. Yes, the dark-jersey team created a really strange play. BUT why is the white-jersey team pressing them when it is 16-0. Why bother? Even in the half-court why not just let the team shoot.

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Is the AAU system going to change?

WESTFIELD, Ind. — A longtime high-major assistant coach stops cold, cocks an eyebrow and chortles.

“Different?” he says. “Nothing is different. Not yet, not for awhile. This is like turning around a big ship.”

The coach shrugs and moved on. More games to see; more games to be seen at. Out here on the AAU trail, there’s little else to do at this point. Last fall, when the FBI diverted its resources from its regular hodgepodge of terrorism, cyber crime, drug trafficking and Wall Street fraud to unmask the national threat of cheating in college basketball, sweeping change seemed imminent. And yet, eight months later, precisely nothing has changed in college basketball’s summer circuit. It’s the same characters reading from the same script. Depending on who you ask, maybe that’s not the worst thing. Others say, yes, it most definitely is. Everyone has an opinion on AAU basketball. Problem is, few come without an agenda.

Read full article at: https://theathletic.com/336048/2018/04/30/a-weekend-on-the-aau-trail-same-as-it-ever-was/