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You’re not getting recruited when the coaches aren’t even allowed to call or text yet. Stop chasing hype. Get in the gym/weight room and work on yourself. Stop playing a million games in your “offseason” and wondering why you aren’t getting much better.

Practices should look sloppy, chaotic, and ugly at times. That’s the reality of competition. You don’t want to look good in practice. You want to be uncomfortable in practice. Must find ways to add pressure in practice. Must gamify everything that you do.

Best post game interview of time LETS GO (Via Metamora Boys Basketball 🎥)

Metamora fell short of our biggest goal this year, but the season was full of accomplishments and memories that will last a lifetime. Thanks to these 6 seniors for going to battle every day for 4 years. Four straight conference titles, regional titles, and Sweet 16 appearances.

Mick Cronin talking about the lack of accountability young people have in Youth Basketball “Letting them do whatever they want is not helping them”

For all you kids out there, the most important thing in basketball is not what Charles Barkley says. It is shooting, putting the ball in the basket. Chuck is generally hilarious and I love him, but he's wrong when he says it's anything else but shooting.

Metamora grad Cooper Koch announces on Instagram that he's withdrawing from the transfer portal and staying at Iowa. Best of luck, Cooper!

“My technique is a result of your technique. My movement is a result of your movement” -Bruce Lee

So many players work on individual dribble moves in training who have no ability to use them against real defense...just painful to watch. Figure out who you are and then work on the things you can do in real games..right schwan humes ?

A generation was raised to believe individual skill development equals undefended dribble moves around cones or chairs into shots & layups, preferably in a new gym with an expensive trainer yelling "Good!" & "Faster!"

Matthew Zobrist named 3A POY in Illinois! Metamora Boys Basketball

AAU problem. In reality, 98% of players DO NOT belong in AAU tournaments. because mom shelled out tons of $$ expectation is to play tournaments every weekend or they’re not getting $$ worth. Bad things occur at AAU games for 98%. Great things occur at free open gym= Development

Why do we associate yelling with toughness or hard coaching, and thus desirable? Remaining calm under pressure & providing clear guidance demonstrates toughness far more than screaming at players. Screaming is easy. Anyone can stomp their feet & yell. Toddlers do it daily.

Kevin Durant talking about how important playing pickup games are for development. He played somewhere 4x per week against “live bodies” and “different sizes, different shapes.”

Coaches cannot transfer their knowledge to players and expect it to come out in gameplay. Practicing with too much direction: • creates an artificial environment • lacks pressure and context The learning needs to be lived by the players.

🔥Coaching Research 🧠⚽ Research shows that opposed practice is key to skill development as players interact, adapt, & make decisions under pressure through problem-solving ✅ Opposed practice offers critical information-rich scenarios, representative of the demands of the game

Elite understanding of how to get better

Pump fakes are still the best move at all levels of basketball. Even if the defender doesn’t jump, it can still be very effective.

Sam Koch has been a gym rat this Spring and it’s showing. 📈 28 points and 6-8 on 3s in two games last weekend.

The first and most important point of the ecological dynamics shift: Coaches are well-intentioned but don’t understand how we learn. Outdated methodologies go against the science of movement, and we have not been teaching skills in the most efficient way for decades.