Matthew McKay

The coaching hiring process doesn’t start when you apply, it starts years earlier. Your reputation, relationships, and results are being formed daily and will impact your chances when a job comes open.

How to increase your luck as a coach: - Watch Film - Listen More - Study other Coaches - Attend Clinics - Mentor Someone - Be Mentored - Build New & Positive Habits - Ask Questions - Be Willing to Change - Get Organized Luck favors those willing to do more. #CMDCooachingLab

On this day in 1992... Shawn Kemp slammed home a pair of thunderous poster dunks vs. Golden State 😲

The best thing you'll listen to today is Utah Jazz Head Coach Will Hardy talking about the tax of being a leader: 🏋 Leadership is not a position you hold—it’s a responsibility you carry. The weight isn’t in the title, it’s in the people who trust you with their time, energy, and belief. 📊 Before metrics, before outcomes, before strategy—there are humans. Leadership is a human-to-human commitment to see, serve, and develop the people in front of you. ✊ There is a tax on leadership. And it's paid in consistency, in hard conversations, in choosing standards over comfort. You don’t get to clock out from being the example! The cost is of being the head coach is real... but so is the impact on every life you’re responsible for. 🌱⏩🌳

Joe Mazzulla: “The greatest gift you can have as a coach is to have players that have a high, competitive character, care about winning, and want to get better.”

Houston HC Kelvin Sampson - Why Coaches Fail - "I think the coaches that fail at every level, are the coaches that are passive aggressive. Passing aggressive coaches are usually afraid to hold kids accountable, they rationalize." - "If you're going to build a culture, the first thing you have to come to grips with, you're going to have confrontation." - Consistency - Competence - Confidence - Confrontation

CBS NFL intro from 1977. Almost every clip is a penalty in 2026 😂

Norway consistently wins the most medals at the Winter Olympic Games, with a population of just 5.6 million people. A big part of their success is how they treat youth sports—and it’s the opposite of what we do in the US. Here’s what we can learn from Norway: 1. Scorekeeping: In the US: Youth sports tend to be hyper competitive even at early ages. Leagues almost always keep score. In Norway: Scorekeeping isn’t even allowed until age 13. Removing winners and losers keeps the focus on the process not outcomes. It keeps kids engaged longer because it minimizes pressure (and tears) and maximizes fun, learning, and growth. The goal isn’t to win a third grade championship. It’s to love sport and keep playing. 2. Trophies: In the US: If you give everyone a trophy, you’re creating snowflakes who will never gain a competitive edge. In Norway: Whenever trophies are awarded, they are handed out to everyone. If getting a trophy makes young kids feel good, we should give them trophies. Maybe they’ll come back and play again next year!! As for the creation of snowflakes with no competitive edge—Norway’s athletes are tough as nails and all they do is win. 3. Prioritizing Fun: In the US: Far too often, the goal is to win. In Norway: The national philosophy is “joy of sport.” Youth sports in the US are driven by adults, ego, and money. Youth sports in Norway are driven by fun. Only half of kids in the US participate in sports. The number one reason they drop out: because they aren’t having fun anymore. In Norway, 93% of kids participate in youth sports. Fun is the foremost goal. 4. Playing Multiple Sports: In the US: There’s pressure to specialize early and play your best sport year round. In Norway: Try as many sports as you can before specializing as late as college. Norway encourages kids to try all types of sport. This reduces injury and burnout and increases all-around athleticism. It also helps promotes match quality, or finding the sport you are best suited for as your body develops, which is impossible if you commit to a single sport too early. 5. Affordability In the US: There is increasingly a pay-to-play model with high fees for leagues, equipment, and travel. This excludes many kids from playing. In Norway: It’s a national priority to keep youth sports affordable and therefore accessible for all. Kids aren’t priced out, which creates opportunities for everyone to participate (and develop into athletes), regardless of their parents’ income level. We could learn a lot from Norway: In the US, 70% of kids drop out of youth sports by age 13. This not only diminishes an elite-athlete pipeline, but it also destroys an opportunity for healthy habits and all the character lessons kids can learn from sport. In Norway, lifelong participation in sport is the norm. The goal isn’t to have the best 9U team. It’s to develop the best athletes. Those are two very different things. And Norway has the gold medals to prove it.

SIMPLE steps to success - 1. Show up 2. Be on time 3. Be prepared 4. Do what you say you’re going to do 5. Treat people well

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Seeing the latest round of ‘rankings’ for 13-15 year old BBall players making the rounds. Always makes me immediately think of 1 of the best bball books I’ve ever read. Few years old now, but should be required reading if you’re a youth sports parent.

Conditioning Month Post Test Day 1 The Work is Always Gonna Be There 😤

This is the man who LeBron, Kobe, KD, B-Roy, D-Wade all in 1 playoff run😭

Canada comes out on top against Puerto Rico 🇨🇦🔥🌟 #AmeriCup @CanBball

The most effective networking strategy I’ve found has nothing to do with conferences, cocktail hours, cold emails, or any of the common ideas you hear. 1) Do interesting things. 2) Share them publicly. Like-minded people will come to you.

@NBAMemes Pretty sure that’s cast for the reboot of the 1996 Whoopi Goldberg vehicle ‘Eddie’.

Bro, die-hard Nets fans can't name them

Just an amazing level of resiliency by British Columbia basketball. Despite being down most of the 2nd half, they exhibited mental toughness and scrapped to get back and beat Quebec for the gold.

@CoachHaddy If you want to see how the game should be played, you can do a lot worse than that 2000 team.

Canada Summer Gamed 2025

@IRPlawyer Fuelled by a little pre-bird law Fight Milk?

I don't practice exclusively in driving law. Sometimes I dabble in... bird law.