a.    The team is an extension of the coaching staff.

b.    Each year we must improve our mental approach, player relations, practice planning, promptness, dress, promotions, game management, game coaching, and recruiting. TOTAL PREPARATION.

c.    We must find leaders with the right mental approach. Positive leaders. Develop an awareness of the spiritual, social, academic, athletic, social and economic goals of each of our players. ROLES AND GOALS.

d.    Players play to their personality and selflessness is the last of the great personality traits people acquire.

e.    Motivate players according to their position. "Read" them, and help them.

f.    Knowing you have made a mistake puts you over the hump and then you can correct it.

g.    You can never get back to learning if they think they know all the answers.

h.    Are they working to capacity?

i.    Three self-motivated players who care about the team can make your season.

j.    Before they can be aggressive, tough and quick physically, they must be aggressive, tough and quick mentally.

k.    Make the percentage plays rather than the non-percentage plays. Play the percentages, you don't beat the percentages in Las Vegas.

l.    Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.

m.     Read something each night to help improve our program.

n.    There aren't ten jobs in the United States better than our job.

o.    Look to replace players who are motivated only by a crisis, and do not possess the discipline and the maturity to be self-motivated. They make every day a crisis. 10/90 rule

p.    Don't ever be predictable as a coach, as they should react to you. Teams and some individuals sometimes think they have "arrived."

q.    Game Coaching _ How can we lose? How can we win? LOOK FOR WAYS TO WIN.

r.    Think win at all times and your total preparation will carry you through.

s.    Don't overcoach the big games, but you'll have to overcoach the games the players think are "unimportant."

t.    Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort, and
technique.

u.    You can't wait forever for potential. Get some lesser talented players who are winners.

v.    It's better to have someone else hate your guts than yourself.x.    More mental abuse to cut turnovers, not enough heat on them in this gym. The coaches must be too predictabley.    Read them, help them improve, it takes discipline. Think about it before all practices and games.z.    You are alone and lonely if you are a leader. You will have to give something up.
 

YOUR BEST PLAYER MUST BE A LEADER AND/OR YOUR HARDEST WORKER.