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April 5, 2021 Mark Schruender No Comments
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One Coach to One Player Individual Basketball Workouts

Last month I spoke with Coach Jon DeMarco about one to one individual basketball workouts. Coach DeMarco is a skills trainer and works with a diverse group of players from the collegiate level down to the…

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March 21, 2021 Mark Schruender No Comments
  • Team Culture

Six Creative Team Building Ideas

Team building sometimes gets stuck in the clichés of the game. Very often they sound great in principle, but constraints get in the way. You run out of time, you do not want to sacrifice precious…

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March 18, 2021 Mark Schruender No Comments
  • Team Culture

Ten Ways to Coach with More Positivity

This is a follow-up to a conversation with Burlington High girls basketball coach Pam MacKay. Coach MacKay offered several concrete examples of coaching with positivity. Here are five that can change the way that you coach…

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March 11, 2021 Mark Schruender No Comments
  • Team Culture

Why Coach through Positive Reinforcement?

I recently spoke with Burlington High girls basketball coach Pam MacKay. Coach MacKay’s team is coming off an undefeated league championship season, which propelled them to the #6 team in The Boston Globe’s end of year…

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February 28, 2021 Mark Schruender No Comments
  • Off-Season

Exit Interviews with Outgoing Seniors

At the conclusion of each season, I ask the outgoing seniors five question. Here was an interview from two seasons ago (both players granted permission for me to post it). My goals in these interviews are…

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February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 Mark Schruender No Comments
  • Individual Growth

Coordinating End of Season Exit Interviews

Over the weekend I met with each player to conduct exit interviews as our abbreviated season concluded. It was the first time we held exit interviews virtually, but it will not be the last. Finding mutually…

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December 30, 2020 Mark Schruender 1 Comment
  • Basketball Books

52 Books for Coaches to Read in 2021

The year is over. It is easy to label 2020 as a disaster, but the year’s problems also created many opportunities. Being in isolation with increasing amounts of free time, one of those opportunities came in…

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December 3, 2020 Mark Schruender No Comments
  • Team Culture

Developing Your Own Captain Academy

Recently I wrote about utilizing Google Classroom during the upcoming season to mitigate the risks associated with COVID. One idea included a Captain Academy (or Leadership Academy) to inform aspiring captains of the expectations that come…

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November 21, 2020 Mark Schruender 2 Comments
  • Game Film

Incorporating Google Classroom with High School Basketball

My home state of Massachusetts has pushed back the start of basketball by tryouts by two weeks. Other states are taking similar action. There are sure to be restrictions on the use of physical classrooms, locker…

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August 26, 2020August 26, 2020 Mark Schruender No Comments
  • Basketball Analytics

Three Lessons Coaches Can Learn from James Harden

Teams are flocking to the three point arch and ditching the mid-range. As you know by now, the Houston Rockets and James Harden are leading the charge. Kirk Goldsberry dedicated a whole section to Harden in…

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