Casey Fowler

"Something we're never going to do in a Fire practice is teach a move 1 on 0. We don't believe in teaching techniques; we create the situation, 1 on 1, 1 on 2, :03 shot clock, must find a finish w/ your left hand. "Every player has unique constraints based on development plan."

“One player’s selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work” - Dean Smith

“Basketball is War. Picking up 94 feet helps our mindset because we know we are playing to live, not playing not to die”

“When you are over-coaching you are actually distracting your players from what they should be looking at and doing” - Dusty May (Via @CTGProjectHQ 🎥)

“Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That’s why I believe in practicing a team to train when it’s exhausted.” - Pat Riley

“You very seldom learn anything from talking” - Roy Williams (Via @thewinningdiff1 🎥)

“You can't have uphill dreams with downhill habits." - Paul Mills 🗣️ (Via @GoShockersMBB 🎥)

Rick Majerus told his players in the offseason to “be back-doored all summer.” 1. Deny every pass (ear to chest, maintain vision of the ball, crack of your back toward the ball). 2. On the catch, make offensive players put the ball on the floor. The hardest thing to guard is staying in front of the ball. “I don’t care if the offensive player is a non-shooter — play one arm’s length away as though he is the greatest shooter in the game. Nose on chest, and level that dribbler off.” #MondayWithMajerus

“We do not have an offense that involves patterns. I do not believe in teaching plays, I believe in teaching our kids how to make plays." – Bob Knight

“If you want to beat people, sweat more” - Roy Williams (Via @Jammer2233 🎥)

“Give me toughness over talent any day - I can take a tough kid and make him a better player but there is no coaching for a kid that’s soft” - Jim Calhoun

“It’s not what you know as a coach, it’s what your players can do under game conditions,” Mike Krzyzewski Great teachers don’t give the answers, they provide the practice needed to successfully perform under pressure.

Texas A&M head coach Bucky McMillan: "I'm not coaching basketball afraid of my own shadow. Basketball is a war. We pick people up 94 feet because the court is 94 feet, not 40 feet. We play to live, we don't play not to die."

“A coach's greatest gift is a group of guys that want to be coached, want to be led." (Via @coachajkings 🎥)

"The more you cut down on mistakes, the greater your chance of winning is" - Bob Knight

"Most lay-ups and two foot jump shots around the goal are missed by not putting the ball up high enough on the backboard." -- Rick Majerus

Absolutely love this Raising the standard involves raising a teams understanding of what “hard” is Eventually the hard will become easy, and the goal post will move

Great stuff here from Coach Caldwell. She opens up about practice struggles in year one of time at Tennessee. When putting your stamp on a program, your first goal is quality practice habits and raising the bar on what “hard” is.

Toughness and effort take zero talent.

Be known for your work ethic.