Another basketball season is about to tip-off. We are excited for another season of Tulsa basketball. It has been fun to follow Allen on his basketball journey from Drake to Louisiana Tech to Longwood to Tulsa.
Sunday, November 2, 2025
The First 20: Setting the Tone for High Performance Basketball Practice
Sometime is not what you say, but what you do as a coach that impacts your team and impacts your practices. All coaches want their teams to have high energy practices.
I believe the first 20 minutes of every practice are important for determining what the practice will be like. Here are two little things that I felt helped me create a high performance practice.
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Proactive vs Reactive Problem Solving in Coaching
Sometimes in coaching it seems like there are a million things to do at the beginning of each season- assign uniforms and numbers, get opponents schedules, set up scouting schedule, arrange picture day, get senior banners, set up scorebooks, organize fundraiser, order shooting shirts. It goes on and on. All of this is on top of actually running practices and dealing with day to day issues.
As coaches, just when we feel that we have everything covered, something unexpected comes up. This can especially be true with our players and their buying into our team culture. There is nothing worse in coaching than feeling you have gotten blind sided by a player problem.