Created by Brian McCormick @ http://learntocoachbasketball.com/sign-up/coaching-course Posted only to share with my fellow coaches in a more suitable format than google docs.

1. The Youth Player

24. Learning and Mistakes At a clinic, a coach asked the presenter how to handle a player who makes the same mistake over and over even though the coach “tells him and tells him” what to do. The clinician focused on the player’s motivation, which may or may not be an issue. However, what if the player is not an auditory learner? The coach said that he told the player repeatedly, but he never mentioned demonstrating the error or the correct execution. He never mentioned asking a question to judge the player’s comprehension. He assumed that because he offered the explanation, the player understood it, and because the player did not execute correctly, he simply did not want to play or he was a bad player.

30. Mistake Ritual When I coached volleyball, our team had a terrible time allowing one mistake to multiply. Finally, I told the team that they had to devise their own strategy to use whenever a player made a mistake to remind the player (and the rest of the team) to forget the mistake and focus on the next play . This was shortly after Talladega Nights left the theatres, so the captain suggested saying, “Shake and bake,” every time someone made a mistake. That became their routine. When a player missed a pass, rather than putting her head down, the players yelled “Shake and bake” and prepared for the next serve.