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"Coach, I think your program is excellent and I would like to continue to be in contact with you about teaching the game." Kevin

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Coach: A Coach’s Family Influenced By John Wooden

By coachronn - Posted on June 29th, 2010
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By Ronn Wyckoff

It was one of those momentous events that transformed my life – a defining moment, for sure, that set the stage for the remainder of my basketball coaching years – and for the rest of my life.

It was the summer of 1974, the summer before Coach Wooden retired from U.C.L.A.  I was one of several high school basketball coaches working at the John Wooden Basketball Camp in Southern California.  

I had brought my older son, Sean, to participate in the 9-10 year-old group (he was 8 1/2 but allowed in because he was a coach’s son).  While I worked with high school players throughout the days and evenings, Sean was busy learning skills and playing games well enough to be named Most Improved Player. Sean had his lifetime memory from this summer’s events, culminating in his receiving his award from Coach Wooden himself.

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Personal Quotes From Coach Ronn

By coachronn - Posted on May 29th, 2010
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There are lots of great quotes around from great coaches and others who have influenced my coaching and my life in general.  I have published these before (See: http://www.top-basketball-coaching.com/taxonomy/term/2 ).

Now, I’d like to share some of my own original quotes published through my writing or public speaking in my more than 56 years of basketball playing, coaching, consulting and writing.

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Sports are a great metaphor for life. The dynamic of how we deal with our participation in sports mirrors how we live our lives.

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NBSA In Oregon

By coachronn - Posted on April 30th, 2010
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A couple of months ago, I was looking for a place to shoot in free throw competition in my state.  Living now in Oregon, I thought I would find some age group competition like I shot in when I lived in Florida.  Nope – none!  No senior games.  No basketball competition at all in the State Games of Oregon.  Short of creating my own tournament, so I could have a place to compete, I had to look farther afield.

I found that Washington state has a Senior Games and allows Oregon residents to enter, due to there not being a Senior Games in Oregon.  That solved one problem, but I still thought something should be available in my state.

I contacted the Oregon Amateur Sports Foundation, after doing a Google search for competition in Oregon.  I learned there is a State Games of Oregon but that there is no basketball competition of any kind. While the Games are like a mini-Olympics and have a wide variety of sports competitions taking place every year, basketball has been on the wane.

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NBSA Beginners Free Throw Guide

By coachronn - Posted on March 28th, 2010
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Even if I wasn’t a founding member of the National Basketball Shooters Association, I’d still be amazed at the poor free throw shooting percentages being posted by teams at all levels.

I am, however, a founder of NBSA, and at NBSA (www.nbsafreethrows.org ), we’re all about free throw shooting proficiency.  In fact, most of our members are free throw masters and most Guinness Record holders for free throws are part of our association.  So, we are disturbed by the “insanity” that takes place at the free throw line.

According to Napoleon Hill, author of “Think And Grow Rich”, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

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Coach Ronn's Coaching Philosophy

By coachronn - Posted on February 28th, 2010
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Whenever I teach coaches or am speaking with a group of players, the first topic I will cover is philosophy.  I want everyone thinking that attitude, focus, communication and discipline determine so much of a team's success.  Without these things, how can there be a coaching philosophy that will hold up to the test of having players who play at their best level, the team playing at its best together, or enjoying the best season you can have?

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At The Youth Level - Teacher Or Coach?

By coachronn - Posted on January 30th, 2010
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I have written about this before, and I believe that every player needs and deserves a teaching-coach in the early years. Each skill needs to be broken down into building blocks, where the level of difficulty can be raised as the individual grasps and possesses the skill before moving on. A coach can make a big mistake thinking that all players are capable of grasping the same lesson at the same pace as every other player. It doesn’t happen in the classroom so why would we assume the playing floor is somehow different?

One of the big problems in youth programs is that qualified teachers are rare. Often, youth team coaches try very hard to do the best they can with limited knowledge. They may have little or no playing or teaching experience. Our most skilled coaches, who could possibly be the most effective teachers, come into the picture later on in a player’s career. By then, many incorrect habits have been set and coaches don’t have the time, personnel or perhaps the desire to back up and re-teach skills.

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National Basketball Shooters Association: Become A Free Throw Master

By coachronn - Posted on December 31st, 2009
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A few months ago, I was asked to be part of a founding group of coaches and masters in the art of shooting free throws.  We were all in agreement that there is a strong need for better free throw shooting at all levels of play, both in the USA and internationally.   The organization we founded is called, the National Basketball Shooters Association (NBSA ).  

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The New Theory Of Free Throw Targeting: The "Sweet Spot"/Bulls-Eye Target

By Anonymous - Posted on November 30th, 2009
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by, Jim “Makevery” Schatz

If you perform a Google search for “free throw” and click on some of the links, you will quickly find there is no agreement, even among expert coaches, in regards to targeting while shooting free throws. Some coaches say aim at the back of the rim, some say aim at the front of the rim, some say aim above the rim and I say, aim at the "sweet-spot"/bulls-eye target.

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How To Motivate In Youth Basketball

By coachronn - Posted on October 31st, 2009
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I was recently asked to share some ideas about how to motivate players.  I think most coaches try to motivate their team more than the individual players.  I think that is normal, but many individuals don't respond to group motivation and will need to be dealt with separately.  On the part of the coach, the latter is definitely more difficult than the former.  Motivating the individual will require more information about a player.

If we're talking about youth recreation teams, at that age, where fun should be the key motivator, ice cream or pizza (or both) could probably suffice.  However as the players age, and the corresponding pressures to do their best and to win begin to dominate the individual psyches, the answers to motivation are more difficult, more varied and can border on the esoteric.

While I have retired from team coaching, I still work with coaches and players privately and in workshops. Motivational issues are almost always part of the teaching plan.

I don't believe there is any one method for motivating. Players relate to different styles: i.e. Bobby Knight vs. John Wooden vs. Jerry Tarkanian vs. Dean Smith.

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