In team practices those are best ways for you to improve as a group and to become cohesive as a unit. That is what team practices are for. You will not find a lot of individual time devoted for your skill development and improvement in a team practice setting. Typically coaches, an average of two hours and within the two hours they are going to push you defensively offensively in special game situations. All these things will be involved in a team setting to help you as a team to play better against the opponent that you are going to have.
Team practices are best way for you to improve without putting in any extra practice time on your own. The question is how you go about doing that. That is what we need to find out today. First way you do it is by putting forth your best effort in everything that occurs in a practice setting. You need to work on your speed when the team is running sprints and try to be the guy that finishes first every time. They say that if you are in the back of the pack the view never changes.
How many of you guys have been in a team practice doing sprints. You are kind of tired that day or you do not only care about sprints so you do not try to beat everybody else. Have you ever been in that position? Most players have. 90% of the players at a team practice do not try to win the sprints. That means 90% because your habits portray who you are. 90% of the players in a team practice are not really working hard enough to make them selves better.
They might be there helping the team because they are an extra body on the core but they are not doing anything to make themselves better. One way is to be first in sprints another way is to try to improve at each skill drill that you do when you have time whether it is a shooting drill, a dribbling drill. Try to improve and learn something from each drill that you do.
Third, when you participate in competition one on one, five on fives, two on two’s, three on three’s you should have only one objective that is to win that scrimmage. It does not matter if you room with the guy. It does not matter if you are dating his sister. Your objective is to win the scrimmage. That not only will carry over the game situation because that will be your mental and physical habit that will also push your teammates, make them better, make your team better collectively.
The next way to improve without extra practice time in a team setting is to give you total effort your total energy and your total enthusiasm to what is going on the floor. How many of you in this room would say that you are leaders when you are in practice? Raise your hands high. See leaders raise their hands high. Raise your hands high. All right, let’s find out exactly what a leader in practice is.
Aaron, what do you think a leader in practice does? It is vocal, the first to be in practice and the last to leave. How about leaders set the pace for others they do not pace them selves does that work? Leaders set the pace for others they do not pace themselves. One thing we have not talked about is locker room leadership. Is that part of practice? How would this be applicable? How many of you played for a coach they did not care for?
You can be honest. You might practice for a coach all this week you do not care for. Everybody has had the experience. How many of have had a good coach that they would like to play for? Almost everybody has had a situation which they did not like a coach that played for and did like a coach they played for? What is your responsibility as a leader because he is the coach if players start saying things about the head coach when he is not around? What is your responsibility?
Stick up for the coach. You might not agree with the coach but he is the head coach and you know what, he is going to do it his way whether you like it or not. The fact that the guys been around for years a few years may mean they are one or two things he might know that you do not and if he does not that is not going to really be the issue is it. The issue is he is they guy driving the vehicle you are just one of the parts or the car. If you have dissention in ranks if you allow dissention in ranks your team cannot be as successful as it otherwise would be.
All you have to do is say listen. You might not agree with what the guys are doing but he is the head coach so do not say anything bad in front of me, keep it to yourself. Our job is to practice and make work what he has given us to do. Is that hard? No one is going to disrespect you for that.
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