Building and Sustaining a Basketball Culture
Exploring the journey of a basketball enthusiast dedicated to creating and nurturing a vibrant basketball culture, showcasing experiences, intentions, keys to success, challenges faced, and the essence of leadership in both senior and underage teams.
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PERSISTENCE Creating and Sustaining a Culture
THE CULTURES/CLUBS IVE GOTTEN TO BE AROUND Team Kilkenny/Kilkenny Stars Templeogue Sligo All-Stars Dublin Lions Fr Mathews Liffey Celtics UCD Ballincollig Ballina Moycullen NUIG UL Belfast Star Thunder Killester National Teams
INTENTIONS Basketball lifer This had always been my vision I had a young daughter, and I wanted her to see how beautiful the game was What I was bringing was necessary
TRUST, COMMITMENT, CARE Why Not Me? Mentality Davidson 7 Keys Seeing Talking Flesh to flesh contact Details Always Balanced Have an Act Finish Everything Why not me? Get to vs Got to Constant sense of urgency Pit Bulls only Marathon Not a Sprint
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? Loud. A quiet gym is a losing gym Starts with me, greeting people, energy coming into the gym Players continue it, constant engagement Game of mistakes. Atmosphere of failure. Iron sharpens iron Hip hop. It makes the game fun. My gym is always bumping. But for teams I coach, you have to earn entry into that realm. Laid back but working hard is a prerequisite Competitiveness. With yourself. Charting. Small victories. No fear of anyone. 1x1, 3x3, 4x4, etc
SENIOR VS UNDERAGE CULTURE Harder to change an adult team vs underage team, but it can certainly be done. Harder to change an experienced coach vs a newer coach Harder again to convince a committee to do things a different way Find the leader or person who has the pulse of the team, and create a buy in. Learn how to challenge and engage them Kids and adults are obviously not the same, and we can t coach them the same, but our non negotiables should probably be similar Mental toughness Next Play Mentality Communication Unselfishness Practice habits. Come early, be engaged, stay after. Trickle down especially b/c we re not a fully professional league. Kids will mimic everything they see the best players in the country doing. Idea of Servant Leadership getting top players to give back to the game
PROBLEMS IVE ENCOUNTERED Gym time There was already a culture here Do you get rid of everything existing? Of course not. Trying to create habits, but we don t have them everyday. Politics. People telling you what it should look like Parents. Not in line with our US AGAINST EVERYBODY mentality that we create from within. Parents try to make it more individual. Getting caught up in the scheme of winning. For my personally, the prestige of making players Begs the question always of Why are you doing this? Doing too much on my own Not sharing my vision enough with other people History. In the grand scheme of things, we are not a big time basketball country. Low on the totem pole. 2ndchoice sport No real history of individual workouts Choosing culture, which has become my lifestyle, over friendships Am I willing to make those hard choices? INCLUSION VS COMPETITIVENESS Can you be competitive without being obsessed with winning?
HOW HAVE I PERSISTED? Understand that there is always some bullshit going on Find a comparison in your life. Find something you ve overcome before. Divorce, undersized guard, broke What cycle have you broken? BREAK THE CYCLE. Process Driven My measuring stick is yesterday. That s it. Teach them to love playing basketball. Mike Bree: get them to love practice Colin O Reilly: professionalisms is a mindset . At my academy, professional habits. Francis O Sullivan: More of them, longer, better. I was always a curious player. That made me a curious trainer, and a curious coach as far as sets or trends or practices. Seek out other curious individuals. Iron sharpens iron. All it takes is one. Help somebody, help yourself Never make it about me. Empathy for every player. Always provide a service. I am a servant of this game. Easy to be persistent in a game that has given me everything.
