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I wish you were serious about the above order of business because we need someone that can help develope the skills of our players. Someone with fresh ideas. Right now that is just not happening. We still have 6 five stars which is a good thing, we just need them to play up to their potential.

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Has been an Alpha his entire life. My family, my colleagues will all tell you I lead. And it would surprise no one who knows me if I made the best of such an opportunity. I'm not playing teacherdean.,, All I need is a chance and a phone call. There are those on this board who know who I am. I would walk away from my job tomorrow for this opportunity.

((edited: I would not just leave the company that employs me. That would be a dishonor to them. I would work a proper notice and train my successor).

That look on the face in the picture over there. . . I don't care if they're 12, 16, 18-22 or full grown... I can teach them something about this game they didn't know. My drills are unique. I am a skills coach first and foremost.

No teach... one day on the floor with me running some drills.... There would be a second one
 
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Nope, next order of business is a new drills and skills coach.:)

Sorry to say, but you are way to old, and under qualified for the big leagues of college ball, let alone division 1. Your constant self proclaiming yourself as an ALPHA is also not a good make for an assistant. Next time please don't do your resume in crayon.
 
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Has been an Alpha his entire life.

My family, my colleagues will all tell you I lead. ANd it would surprise noone who knows me if I made the best of such an opportunity. I ain't playing teacherdean. All I need is a chance and a phone call. There are those on this board who know who I am. I would walk away from my job tomorrow for this opportunity.

That look on the face in the picture over there. . . I don't care if they're 12, 16, 18-22 or full grown... I can teach them something about this game they didn't know. My drills are unique. I am a skills coach first and foremost.

No teach... one day on the floor with me running some drills.... There would be a second one

Help me Obi-Wan
 
Sorry to say, but you are way to old, and under qualified for the big leagues of college ball, let alone division 1. Your constant self proclaiming yourself as an ALPHA is also not a good make for an assistant. Next time please don't do your resume in crayon.

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Up late boys? . . . Been there, done that, and got the t-shirt.

So Dean and Holly are too old as well,,, both are one year older than I am… Not that age matters.

D1 is what I expect out of any girl I train ... If I work with those who are already D1's... I would simply expect better performances from them. It doesn't intimidate me at all, chi.

An Alpha doesn't have to be a HC. Plenty of them out assisting right now. Just be an influence to those who need them and an example to those who don't.

My "crayon Resume" would look more like this:

Drills and skills:

• 7 Direction "no use of the off-hand" layups with different finishes… NO use of the off-hand in the process or finish. (seven different entries, each with a different releases, and instructions on how to land in each angle, while teaching them that the off-hand is for fending, not cradling the ball)
• 7 Point passing (seven different passing angles with each hand, when to use each variation)
• 100 Shots in two minutes (four girl rotations, when perfected could launch 1000 shots in half an hour) the 2-min, record is 88 by the team in the video.
• Four-pass fastbreak race (From rebound to other end layup in 2.7 seconds) (All 5 players begin inside the arc where the rebound is acquired. 2.7 seconds from rebound to score. No dribbling) MY first team in Knoxville, a 16u team, set this mark.
• Contact layups (I will need a lineman to volunteer for this one)
• Hi-post hard drive (From facing out at the elbow in a triple threat, to ball of the glass via layup rrelease in under a second)
• The three variations of a shot (Set-Rhythm-Touch… when to use which and why they differ) Ghost-shooting, spot-shooting, "chirp" shooting (My unique approach to speeding up the "gather" process on a jumper.
• Rapid-fire shooting - From dribble pickup or pass reception to jumper in 8/10 of a second or less.
• One-dribble layup-drive from a triple-threat from anywhere outside the arc; (One dribble from arc to layup. Time starts with the first motion out of the triple-threat and ends with ball off the glass.... Best time I've seen so far .89 seconds (edited: on a make. misses don't count)
• How to finish later in your flight on an attacking layup. How to land so you won’t get hurt. How to practice a layup. (you never EVER touch the ball with the off-hand when practicing layups.. Unless you are practicing "power-layups... If they are doing power-layups, i make them do them in "Break through and Conquer")
• 5-spot shooting (Can be tailored for speed, accuracy and both: four girls, each taking a turn at 25 shots in 45 seconds as a unit… Once they get their personal best, they begin to shave time and try to up their shooting percentage) The record is Anne Marie Lyons, 19 makes in 38 seconds.
• Understanding 11-man, How to attack it, how to defend it.

I'm pretty sure most of these are unique to me. In design and/or How I instruct them.…And four hundred more to pull from in my dbase.

I expect some haters. Chitown, you're alter-ego chitown1145 was on the original list of 7 in my beginning of this Volnation segment of my life... So one of you being the first to chime in, was expected. We'll see if OM, BC, Muns, v-c, spck and "fore" have changed their minds at all. Probably not, but haters got to hate. Some I will not win over, even if I succeed fully. . . . . But in the end, I remember my mentors words… ""Don't worry about it,,,Performance,,will shut them up!”

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Right now it is a moot point anyway, The girls have finals. Their job right now is to be students... Off-season workouts of any kind wouldn't even begin until after they're done.
 
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coach jumper.... What do you think about the pro shot form? I'm a big believer and teaching it to my daughter.
 
coach jumper.... What do you think about the pro shot form? I'm a big believer and teaching it to my daughter.

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I am familiar with it. It is a good follow for a jumper.
1 Quality and consistent release
2 Dipping motion on the pass reception
3 Shoulder, elbow, release and hip aligned on the shot
4 Shoulders relaxed on the release.

I have been calling #2 "dipping motion" ... "Putting the ball in your shot-pocket" forever

3 is explained very well. totally agree.

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Its good for a standalone jumper, but for set-shots and touch-shots (fades, moving-shots, you have to abandon #2) and for foul-shots I don't want my player to shoot it like a jumper. They don't have to totally square-up on a FS, but to distort so you can reach a body-alignment on a FS is something I wouldn't teach.

There are three distinct shot-scenarios. There is no ONE method for doing all of them alike.

I am more a fan of them learning touch shooting from the gitgo, and then incorporating these aspects. (tossing to the student so she has to catch the ball above her head and keeping it above her head for the put-back. If the shot isn't raised to above the temple before it develops, it takes an act of congress to get the student to change the chest-shoulder-belly shot.

I teach the touch-shooting style first. Given my player is big enough and strong enough to do it.

I get across from them and perfect their mechanics by letting them shoot it to me countless times from about 10-12 ft away. As they get proficient, I Increase the distance until they can consistently hit me between the eyes from any space and with dribble-pickups, etc., keeping in mind that the arc must be high enough to go in a goal... When they can consistently, with proper arc, make the shot drop right into my forehead-space, then we move to dropping the ball into a spot on the backboard, THEN goal shooting. Then movement shooting. I call it ghost-shooting.


If you let them goal shoot before you perfect the mechanics, they experience those belly-shot successes and gravitate back to it in games... Because they have seen the ball go in with their bad mechanics.

I am like the old Ninja's with a young student.... Pull the bow a thousand times, then, I will give you an arrow and a target.
 
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I am familiar with it. It is a good follow for a jumper.
1 Quality and consistent release
2 Dipping motion on the pass reception
3 Shoulder, elbow, release and hip aligned on the shot
4 Shoulders relaxed on the release.

I have been calling #2 "dipping motion" ... "Putting the ball in your shot-pocket" forever

3 is explained very well. totally agree.

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Its good for a standalone jumper, but for set-shots and touch-shots (fades, moving-shots, you have to abandon #2) and for foul-shots I don't want my player to shoot it like a jumper. They don't have to totally square-up on a FS, but to distort so you can reach a body-alignment on a FS is something I wouldn't teach.

There are three distinct shot-scenarios. There is no ONE method for doing all of them alike.

I am more a fan of them learning touch shooting from the gitgo, and then incorporating these aspects. (tossing to the student so she has to catch the ball above her head and keeping it above her head for the put-back. If the shot isn't raised to above the temple before it develops, it takes an act of congress to get the student to change the chest-shoulder-belly shot.

I teach the touch-shooting style first. Given my player is big enough and strong enough to do it.

I get across from them and perfect their mechanics by letting them shoot it to me countless times from about 10-12 ft away. As they get proficient, I Increase the distance until they can consistently hit me between the eyes from any space and with dribble-pickups, etc., keeping in mind that the arc must be high enough to go in a goal... When they can consistently, with proper arc, make the shot drop right into my forehead-space, then we move to dropping the ball into a spot on the backboard, THEN goal shooting. Then movement shooting. I call it ghost-shooting.


If you let them goal shoot before you perfect the mechanics, they experience those belly-shot successes and gravitate back to it in games... Because they have seen the ball go in with their bad mechanics.

I am like the old Ninja's with a young student.... Pull the bow a thousand times, then, I will give you an arrow and a target.

I had tried everything with my daughter but nothing was working so I got online to try and find a different way to teach her when I came across pro shot form... It immediately improved her 3 point shooting and free throws. She use to be between a 30% -50% free throw shooter.... Very inconsistent.... I started her turning slightly at the line and over night she was able to shoot 70% from the line and in her first tourney she hit four threes after not being able to shoot that far out before. She has hit 9 of her last 10 free throws in live games. She is a small point guard with excellent ball handling skills and no fear when she drives the ball... I am a big believer in the system.... She struggles with pull-ups still but we haven't been able to get gym time to truly work on it.... I'm planning on really working it this summer though.
 
I had tried everything with my daughter but nothing was working so I got online to try and find a different way to teach her when I came across pro shot form... It immediately improved her 3 point shooting and free throws. She use to be between a 30% -50% free throw shooter.... Very inconsistent.... I started her turning slightly at the line and over night she was able to shoot 70% from the line and in her first tourney she hit four threes after not being able to shoot that far out before. She has hit 9 of her last 10 free throws in live games. She is a small point guard with excellent ball handling skills and no fear when she drives the ball... I am a big believer in the system.... She struggles with pull-ups still but we haven't been able to get gym time to truly work on it.... I'm planning on really working it this summer though.


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It is good you work with her. At some point though someone else will have to take over. Usually around 13-14.

As long as you are both having fun and enjoying each other's company during workouts,,, Enjoy it. And be strong enough to let her try her wings with a good instructor when it is time. She will respect you for this.

You will know when to let someone else step in when she begins to roll her eyes or say very-calculated "Dad, just let me do it" or "You're not teaching me the right way." ...Most Dad's try to hang on too long... When freedom and your belief that they can grow under someone else, is their next step.

Enjoy her while she continues to enjoy being with you. There's nothing like the Father-daughter bond... Except for the bond between coach-athlete, teacher-student, pastor-lamb.

I have been in the lives of easily 2,000 or more girls in my life. I have one daughter in college and she has over 2000 sisters.

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It is good you work with her. At some point though someone else will have to take over. Usually around 13-14.

As long as you are both having fun and enjoying each other's company during workouts,,, Enjoy it. And be strong enough to let her try her wings with a good instructor when it is time. She will respect you for this.

You will know when to let someone else step in when she begins to roll her eyes or say very-calculated "Dad, just let me do it" or "You're not teaching me the right way." ...Most Dad's try to hang on too long... When freedom and your belief that they can grow under someone else, is their next step.

Enjoy her while she continues to enjoy being with you. There's nothing like the Father-daughter bond... Except for the bond between coach-athlete, teacher-student, pastor-lamb.

I have been in the lives of easily 2,000 or more girls in my life. I have one daughter in college and she has over 2000 sisters.

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4'11 72 pounds just turned 12 not too long ago
 
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It is good you work with her. At some point though someone else will have to take over. Usually around 13-14.

As long as you are both having fun and enjoying each other's company during workouts,,, Enjoy it. And be strong enough to let her try her wings with a good instructor when it is time. She will respect you for this.

You will know when to let someone else step in when she begins to roll her eyes or say very-calculated "Dad, just let me do it" or "You're not teaching me the right way." ...Most Dad's try to hang on too long... When freedom and your belief that they can grow under someone else, is their next step.

Enjoy her while she continues to enjoy being with you. There's nothing like the Father-daughter bond... Except for the bond between coach-athlete, teacher-student, pastor-lamb.

I have been in the lives of easily 2,000 or more girls in my life. I have one daughter in college and she has over 2000 sisters.

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I am not her coach.... We work when she is not working with someone else. She plays AAU and school ball as well as getting private lessons from Bird Auguste and Alexis Hornbuckle.... I have input but mainly just reinforce the coaching she gets.... The shooting was not getting better no matter who worked with her...that's when I switched over to pro shot form....!she is very coach able and works hard at her game.
 
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Some signings have started to roll in Texas A&M signs a JUCO 6'3" Caylinne Martin, and 6'3" Macy Weaver commits to Arkansas for 2017 class. She had been committed to Wisconsin. also some of the players we are recruiting are playing at Boo Williams tournament this week. Sidney Cooks who holds a Tennessee offer gets two more offers from Illinois and Penn State.
I expect commitments for 2017 will pick up after the Boo Williams tournament.
 
I am not her coach.... We work when she is not working with someone else. She plays AAU and school ball as well as getting private lessons from Bird Auguste and Alexis Hornbuckle.... I have input but mainly just reinforce the coaching she gets.... The shooting was not getting better no matter who worked with her...that's when I switched over to pro shot form....!she is very coach able and works hard at her game.

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Sounds like a great kid, vb.
And you sound like a pretty cool Dad.
 
I wish you were serious about the above order of business because we need someone that can help develope the skills of our players. Someone with fresh ideas. Right now that is just not happening. We still have 6 five stars which is a good thing, we just need them to play up to their potential.

We don't really have 6 five stars, that's the problem. Cooper, Russell and Nared all 4 star, tops.DD only 5. Everyone else 3-3.5.
 
We don't really have 6 five stars, that's the problem. Cooper, Russell and Nared all 4 star, tops.DD only 5. Everyone else 3-3.5.

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Stars are for the zodiac... The right coach can make a supernova out of a satellite.

There are schools out there winning games against teams much better "astrological representatives" in makeup than they are ...because they have the understanding that basketball isn't about every player being on the same page... Its about 2 and 3 group combinations with role-players to finish out the numbers. This is why I use the Dean Smith Subbing system, 5 in 5 out during easy games and don't care what the combo of the group is, unless I am chessmatching an equal team/coach. This way everybody is forced to play with everybody. And if I see someone pass up an open look because they wanted someone else to get it... "Homey don't play that!"

Do I think I am the panacea(end all cure all) for the Lady Vols. No. Absolutely not. I would fall very short in legal knowledge. Gameday activities and schedules. And sooooooooo very, on...What I do know is I can stimulate players with drills they haven't heard of or seen. I can recognize and navigate Alpha female athletes... And I am still looking for the player, that plays and practices, as hard as I coach them in said environments.

Do I feel I could bring something they need to the table, absolutely. Some will call me a fool. Some already have. But they are dealing with a Geno in me.... Tell me what I can't do and all you have done is given me a challenge... Everybody is just waiting for Geno to fail. Same with me. But like him, all it does is fuel me to go that much harder. . . . Do I equate myself with Geno. Nope, he has been in this level for longer than I have been in AAU. . . . Would playing on the floor against him make me shake... I got a phrase I use to answer this... If you're scared, buy a dog"... I don't own a dog!
 
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what has nared given us yet that you would say she is a 4 star?

she showed up in about 1 game in four.

Nared is misused. She is a CP3 wannabe.... Ok then, foster it and make her bring that level of dedication and game. Tell her, "You want to be that type of player, then do what she did and earn your chances... Put CP3 in the stagnate motion of this past year and she too would look like a one star.
 
Nared isn't misused....she's perfect at the wing. Nared has to learn how to pass the ball when she drives. She has the quickness to get by other wing players, she just drives into the lane uncontrollably a lot of times hoping for a foul, instead of kicking it to an open team mate. Once she learns when she has the opportunity to score...score, but when it's not there, to learn to kick it back out. I saw this tooooo many times last year.
 
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Nared isn't misused....she's perfect at the wing. Nared has to learn how to pass the ball when she drives. She has the quickness to get by other wing players, she just drives into the lane uncontrollably a lot of times hoping for a foul, instead of kicking it to an open team mate. Once she learns when she has the opportunity to score...score, but when it's not there, to learn to kick it back out. I saw this tooooo many times last year.

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Nared is a wing, or as I call it, a small forward. She has ambition enough to take it to the hoop, but her mechanics aren't what they need to be. I don't think it is as much uncontrolled, as it is having an alternate plan.

When you drive hard into the paint, there's no room for second guessing. You either got to finish, or already have an alt-plan considered (there's no time for thinking inside the arc while you have the ball). Many of the drives I saw her begin, she could have ended. But she got scared. (buy a dog),,, ,lol)...This is why i was so dumbfounded when i saw the work-out on drives that Dean ran. A wave in the face and a brush with ta tackling dummy.

My assistant coach for my 16u team in Morristown had a son that played for Carson Newman. 6'4" and 340 lbs of pure BIG... Once the girl were comfortable with bouncing off of me and my asst. In came Pooh-Bear. I posted him above the low-block and told the girls to try to move him, while completing the layup... Once they learned that you initiate contact on a contact layup on the lift-off (because it creates a natural spin to a boxout landing),,, they began to hit him harder and harder, understanding that it would only aid them in their landing in a boxout.... Fall backwards, land on butt..Fall forwards and shatter wrists.....

Bria, 5'8" and about 170 lbs would hit him so hard, we would wince when her time came up... This translated into one of the most incredible thing I got to see coaching them. SHe hit a moving-blocker so hard, she knocked the girl completely out of the court, under the goal. The ref pointed to the girl in the floor and yelled, foul... She demolished a girl and got a present for doing it right....... Its all about technique. Bria is #10 on the far left.
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We don't really have 6 five stars, that's the problem. Cooper, Russell and Nared all 4 star, tops.DD only 5. Everyone else 3-3.5.

The way the team played I am inclined to think several of our girls were over starred. However, is it the players or the coaching? Holly just does not seem to be equipped to coach up anyone. She seems to be full of confusion which lends itself to confusing players. She is a horrible in game coach, who is constantly being out coached and not necessarily by top coaches. I just do not believe that our players are as enept as they appear to be.
 
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