by Goetgeluck | Dec 9, 2020 | Communication, Culture, Mindset, Public, Sports Parents
Why do kids play sports? Along the years of growing Elite Athletes we have met many professional players in whom we noticed an unfortunate trait. The majority of them have stopped being players: they do not experience basketball as play anymore – it became a...
by tannerbrightman1@gmail.com | Dec 9, 2020 | Academy Coaches, Culture, Player Development, Public
Welcome back I lied. If you read Blog 001, it said 5on5 was going to be up next. Change of plans. 75 Minute practices/Practice Structure made more sense in terms of an “order”. Blog 002 is equally as much about our practice preparation as it is about what we actually...
by tannerbrightman1@gmail.com | Dec 3, 2020 | Academy Coaches, Culture, Player Development, Public
If you are beginning to read this series of blogs, you are in for a treat. Either the wild name hooked you, or you are genuinely curious about a coach going all in on trying things completely different. That’s what I did. I took an entire Canadian High School Season...
by Joerik | Oct 14, 2020 | Academy Coaches, Communication, Culture, Mindset, Player Development, Public
I remember when a couple of years ago one of my friends came to watch a game of our U18 team. We had a very decent team performance winning the game with 40+ points. Our head coach (Janka Debacker) was very quiet during the game: a lot of the times she just sat down...
by Goetgeluck | Aug 5, 2020 | Academy Players, Books, Mindset, Player Insights, Public
A running joke in our Academy that only a handful of the players are part of the Academy Book Club. One of our players, Deacon, asked me last year if there’s any book I’d recommend on “mindset”. I asked him what his exact challenges were and by...
by Joerik | Jun 22, 2020 | Off-Season, Player Development, Public
One of the main challenges we had when starting Elite Athletes 10 years ago was changing the basketball culture. The culture back then was not very inspirational. The more motivated players did not really have access to a supportive environment to work hard towards...
