Coach Clarke Isenhower

“His intentions were strong but his actions were weak” is not the way you want to be remembered.

Part of leadership is making difficult decisions. Your team won’t always understand the decision. They won’t always agree with the decision. That’s okay. But if you want them to buy in, they must trust your character and intent. Be worth following.

Summer is optional for your players. It was never optional for you. Here’s what nobody tells you about coaching in the offseason. [THREAD] 🧵

Alex Caruso, Cason Wallace, Jaylin Williams, Devin Vassel, Keldon Johnson, Luke Kornet, etc. WCF is littered with examples of this 👇🏼 Basketball is played WITH the basketball 5% of the time. One of my favorites quotes from Billy Donovan is: ‘The other 95% of the time most players spend trying to get the basketball’. Players also can’t conceptualize the amount of time they have the ball in their hands in a game. They think it’s exponentially more than it actually is. The ball is glorified, and rightfully so, but what are we doing with the other 95%? Do be ELITE REQUIRES impacting the game without the basketball. The video below is a MUST WATCH for all players and coaches 👇 🎥 @chicagobulls

we really got Spurs-Thunder in the WCF and it went 7. as hoops fans, from an objective standpoint, this was the dream, right? we had an absolute classic G1, and it's been a back-and-forth, ultra-physical chess match ever since. and here we are: Wemby and his squad vs. Shai and the defending champs on a Saturday night playing for everything. it really doesn't get any better. shoutout to everyone who had a hand in taking the shine off this series, forcing the focus to what it's been the last week-plus. the big aggregator accounts. the engagement farmers. the twitter algorithm. so much of the national media. that gambling company. the guy who compiled that original viral video of Shai falling five times in one game. and of course Fall% Tom, for his groundbreaking work in bringing to life what will surely prove a revolutionary basketball metric. congrats on the engagement, y'all! in all seriousness, though, I rest assured in knowing the real ones have enjoyed this. and I sincerely hope everyone can enjoy the game tonight. these don't come around very often!

Get ready

This makes me feel old😭😭😭

Love Rick Barnes “I'd say this to any coach...If your job is your identity, you're really going to struggle." This is really great perspective One of the best mentors of young people ever (Via @MVP_Mindset 🎥)

Sleep well tonight knowing that God can use small beginnings to do miraculous things.

While I am against the new NBA Draft lottery reform, I am very interested to see how teams change how they (re)build. Orgs will always find creative ways to adapt.

Tom Brady reveals the overlooked reason practice squad players never succeed in the NFL It’s not a lack of talent. Brady watched it happen for 20 years. The pattern was undeniable. As soon as a practice squad player got promoted and had to perform under real pressure, they crumbled. It took years for Brady to understand why. “There’s 53 guys on the active roster and there’s now 15 guys on the practice squad. So there’s 68 players. But those practice squad players are important because if anybody on the active roster gets hurt, they can get elevated to the squad.” “These scout team receivers would come in and practice with the scout team and they do really well. And I’d be watching. I’m like, ‘Man, we got to get that guy. Let’s get him up on offense. He’s making a lot of plays.’” “Then all of a sudden, we’re like, ‘Hey man, you’re doing really well. You got to come over here and deal with the pressure of succeeding now that you have expectation.’” “And these guys are like, they weren’t prepared for it. So whatever we saw in practice against where there was not a lot of pressure, now when they’re put in a situation where there’s an expectation for performance, they’ve never had to personally deal with that and then they fail.” “And then what I realized was a lot of guys on those practice squads, they don’t want to be elevated to the roster.” “They’re very happy living this life where they could tell their family and friends, which I have no problem with that. But the reality is a lot of guys don’t want the pressure of dealing with top.” Twenty years in the league and seven Super Bowl rings later, Brady learned that talent wasn’t the hardest thing to find. It was people who actually wanted the pressure that comes with being great.

@PauloAlvesNBA Bad teams definitely get shafted. Most likely to pick 10-12 every year. Horrible odds and makes it harder to get talent to bad teams who are legitimately bad and not tanking. Also, moves tanking to the 4-10 slots and the play in slots

I like it, basically, if you wanna min-max, slots 4-10 are ideal, so teams will still strive to win enough to be there But at the same time the difference is minimal, so bad teams dont get too shafted for being legitimately bad

The more I think about the relegation zone, the more convinced I become that it’s just gonna be the three most injured teams every year, and rather than punishing tanking, it will functionally punish bad injury luck, or worse, compel teams to play unhealthy players.

@Charlottean28 @stevegumearthl1 @aheroamongmen Middle teams have great odds. 3/4 chance of a top 10 pick is really good odds

@CoachCI1 @stevegumearthl1 @aheroamongmen Dallas did that because their pick had protections on it. Again, “highest odds” is doing a lot of work here because at 8.1%, that’s basically a 1 in 12 chance. Those are still very bad odds. No one has good odds now.

We had 10 different teams lose 50+ games this season. That’s 1/3 of the NBA. 10 years ago, it was 7. 20 years ago, it was 5. Dont let anyone gaslight you into believing tanking wasn’t a problem.

@Charlottean28 @stevegumearthl1 @aheroamongmen But a team one spot out of the play in will have: 40% chance of a top 5 and 74% chance of a top 10. Great incentive for a team that knows they will lose in the first round and needs more talent

@Charlottean28 @stevegumearthl1 @aheroamongmen You are only looking at the top pick odds. The worst team used to have 100% odds at a top 5 pick. Now they have only a 28% chance of a top 5 pick and basically 50/50 they end up 10, 11, or 12.

@KOT4Q Brooklyn, Chicago, and either Memphis or New Orleans

Based on what you know today, which 3 teams do you think will be in the “lottery relegation zone” next season?

@stevegumearthl1 @aheroamongmen @Charlottean28 Now a team like Golden State can drop out of the play-in and have the highest odds of getting the first pick. I can easily see Golden State doing that (Dallas already did a few years ago to get Derek Lively)

@CoachCI1 @aheroamongmen @Charlottean28 They were at least 10 teams trying to game the system this year. It was so bad in the West, Golden State was locked into the play-in in February. Gaming the system is point shaving.

@stevegumearthl1 @aheroamongmen @Charlottean28 100% agree! I hated it. But I think Adam Solver caused this when he flattened the lottery odds the first time. He made it easier to tank and get a good pick. Now he made it even easier (outside of being in the bottom 3) to lose on purpose and get a good pick.

@FlyEvolutionary Bad teams will no longer be tanking since there is no incentive. So how do bad teams improve since they are more likely to get a bad draft pick now?

And what annoys me about it is a-lot of those teams have been tanking for over a decade. We don’t need to see teams like Sacramento, Washington, Charlotte, and Utah get anymore top 5 picks just for they could stink em up