If you are like me, when the last game of the season has been played, I was ready for a break. I hated that we had lost and part of me wanted the next season to get started- but usually I was exhausted and wanted to escape.
Through the years I found before I started relaxing and decompressing, I needed to go thru a worksheet looking back at the season. If I didn’t do these things within two weeks of the end of the season, I found I began to forget important details.
The idea of this worksheet is not to start planning for next year, you should take a step back before you start doing that. The worksheet is a way of putting together a list or outline of what you did this year.
The purpose of my worksheet was not to solve things at this time. The purpose was just to give me reminders of what we had done and what we needed to do going forward. For example, I might say that we needed a better 1-3-1 offense, but I would not try to come up with that offense.
I would answer the basic questions within two weeks of the end of the season, put them in a file, and leave them alone. Depending on the year, I might not look at them for a month. These reminders were invaluable as I started to plan!
Here were some of the things I tried to address within two weeks of the end of the season:
1- Before each season, I put together a playbook to use going into the season. As the season progressed, I found I would add wrinkles to existing plays and add completely new things. What were the basic plays you used this year? If there are any plays that you do not have diagramed in your playbook, do that on your sheet.
2- What worked best vs. man to man?
3- What did not work well vs MM for you?
4- What were ways you got your best shooters opportunities vs mm? Did you get your best scorers enough opportunities vs MM?
5- What worked best vs zones?
6- What did not work well vs zones?
7- What were ways you got your best shooters opportunities vs. zones? Did you get your best shooters enough opportunities vs zones?
8- What were the best defenses you played against this year? What kinds of things do you need to be able to do to be more effective vs those defenses? (For example- We struggled vs 1-3-1’s, we need to research 1-3-1 offenses, We need to develop backdoor actions. So not particular plays but just actions or abilities.)
9- Are there offensive actions that other teams used that gave you lots of trouble? Are there some actions you want to steal from other teams, or are there films of games you will want to go back and look at later?
10- What did you run for specials vs MM?
11- What did you run for specials vs zone?
12- What different things did you run defensively?
13- What teams could you not guard? Would there be a defense to develop?
14- What was your ball screen defense? Do you want to make changes?
15- Do you have copies of your practice plans from this year- if not, write a general outline of what you did in practice?
16- What are drills or routines in practice you definitely want to use going forward?
17- What are weaknesses in your team culture that you want to find a way to address? (Tardiness, practice focus, pre-game screwing around, parents meddling, etc.) Don’t try to solve them just identify them.
18- What was your subbing plan and minutes distribution? Would you have done it differently if had a chance?
19- As the season went on, did you develop more depth or actually play fewer players? Whichever you answer, is it a problem you need to address?
20- What are reminders you want to make about your players? Are there any notes on them that you want to list to remind you about later in the Spring?
21- Who are players you hope go from being a regular to a star? From not being a regular to a regular? What do they need to do?
22- This off-season what are 1-2 areas that I want to really study?
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