counseling coaches

I am a product of The South. I was born in the Mississippi River Delta country of Eastern Arkansas. My grandfather grew up working in the cotton fields of Northeastern Arkansas and the Bootheel of Missouri before joining the Navy, fighting in World War II, then making a career repairing air conditioner compressors for the civil service while tinkering with lawn mowers as a side hustle.  Like many Southerners, my grandfather was known for his repertoire of colorful expressions. He was a character.  One of his favorite expressions was “You’ve got bigger fish to fry.” He would use this when he wanted someone to knowRead More →

Counseling Coaches Series: Basketball Coaching, like music, has genres. You don’t have to know or even pretend to care about all of them. Imagine you have a friend, and this friend is into classical music. He can tell Beethoven from Bach within the first few notes. He has recordings of everything from Vivaldi to Chopin on his favorite listening device. His home is filled with the sweet sounds of classical music every waking hour. He gets tickets to every symphony performance in his city and even travels to New York or Boston to hear special performances. By any definition this friend is a music lover,Read More →

Counseling Coaches Series: How focused you are on what you do is more important than how much you know. In this day and age, the ability to filter out information is a Coaching Superpower. In the hundreds of hours each year I spend counseling coaches this is a constant battle; especially when they are faced with adversity. Coaches who develop the skill of sorting through and even tuning out the massive amount of information we are bombarded with will separate themselves. That day may already be here… The above tweet by Greg McKeown, the author of Essentialism – The Disciplined Pursuit of Less expresses thisRead More →

Counseling Coaches Series: What do YOU think? Forming your OWN thoughts about basketball matters. In the summer of 2015 some coaching friends encouraged me to begin sharing basketball info on social media and in blogs. This information was well received and thanks to some hard work and strategic affiliations, Radius Athletics was born and I began offering my time to help coaches. At first I thought this was going to be all about sharing X’s & O’s, drills and diagrams, but soon I realized some real and bigger needs had to precede that. We needed to have “macro” level conversations before any “micro” level conversations.Read More →