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From Coach Redin's 1958 book The Queens Fly High, some comments
on success and a few coaching suggestions:
Comments
Basketball
is a series of situations. The team that is best prepared to meet
the situations as they arise will win the important games. Preparedness
may be defined as a combination of confidence, spirit and teamwork,
plus actual offensive and defensive skill. Tradition, incentive
and desire play an important part in preparing a team.
Some coaches
seem to have a knack for always having their teams ready to play,
while the rest of us worry about how the team will perform from
game to game.
Tradition
is a great equalizer. Each year we see teams rise to unexpected
heights because of tradition and school spirit. ...
Nothing
succeeds like success.
Suggestions
for coaches
(just a few of Coach Redin's more than
60 suggestions):
- Be honest
with your players.
- Save
your timeouts until needed.
- Discourage
griping.
- Teach
courtesy and good manners.
- Take
your players to see better teams play.
- Team
poise and composure is a necessity.
- Change
the system rather than play a style that does not fit the personnel.
- Teach
girls to bounce back when adversity stares them in the face.
- Do not
over-coach.
- It isn't
what you tell them, it is what you get them to do.
- Instill
pride and desire.
- Little
things can make a great team.
- A basketball
game is a series of mistakes. The team making the fewest mistakes
will be most likely to win.
- Profit
by your mistakes.
- A little
done well is better than a lot done poorly.
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