What do you do to get your guys mentally ready to play? A team can't play well if it is not in the right frame of mind.
Bill Parcells: "Players haven't changed (from the 80's until now), its the people around them that have."
Basketball is an unselfish game that is too often played by selfish people.
Where are our guys mentally?
Examine body language
Have a beat on everything going on in the Athletic Center (trainers, managers, etc.)
How do your guys learn?
Film.
Walk Through.
BE CREATIVE!!
After 2006 wrote down all the things that could get in the way of the team being the best they could be-players being selfish, over-confident, not handling their roles.
2006 and 2007 National Champs had an enormous level of sacrifice.
Live in the present: forget the past, play the next play to the best of your abilities.
Encountering over confidence: yesterday is over we need to compete now.
Competitors-Great competitors bring it every game and every practice.
Role Players
Never underestimate how important role players are.
Stars will get the pub, it's the role players whom you need to make sure feel appreciated.
Stars must endear themselves to those role players (think KG offering anyone on the team a free meal every road trip)
Building chemistry isn't all on the coach, your best players have the best chance to improve chemistry.
Leaders on the floor and leaders in the locker room can often be two different sets of people.
Approach/Avoidance Goals
Approach Goals: things the team wants to see accomplished.
Avoidance Goals: Things the team is hoping to avoid
Focus on approach goals. Avoidance goals are too negative, makes teams play not to lose rather than to win
How do you make sure your message is being heard?
Choose 3 to 4 players who are responsible that the message isn't diffused by negativity in the locker room.
Watching film after a loss shouldn't be punishment. Be objective. You can be harder after a win and easier after a loss.
Halftime motivational strategy: Really not much time, but if they're too high emotionally, bring them down. If they're down, bring them up
Create Epiphanies-talking can only do so much, at times a coach needs to come up with creative say of getting his message across. Sometimes players get too caught up in themselves and seeing those who are less fortunate, they realize they don't have it as bad as they think.
Ideas: Bring role models to practice, Visit children's hospital, ask for teams input
Bill Belicheck met with the team shortly befre the SEC tournament. Showed them a video of the Breeders' Cup (horse race) and paused the halfway through the race with the outcome still up in the air. He asked the team "Who will win? The horse with the best odds prior to the race? The team was puzzled, "No, its the horse that runs the best race from here on out." You can't focus on prior accomplishments/failures, you must only focus on the present and doing the best on the next play.
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