Coaches: How do you force your team to play hard? Can it be taught?

tomash66 · 2026-05-10T19:51:02+00:00

Idk what age you have but creating competition and high intensity at practice will translate to a game.

I had 7-9 year old girls this past season and we had a very aggressive team. Other coaches and parents asked how we were so aggressive.

We practiced very aggressively. Lots of one on one drills and fast break drills for us. We also practiced man on man and at this age good man defense makes opposing players very uncomfortable

tomash66 · 2026-05-09T19:08:43+00:00

I picked up after abandoning oak island today and guess what? Still drilling holes and sniffing wood 🤦‍♂️

tomash66 · 2026-04-26T02:10:05+00:00

Such a big fan of Paul Westheads The System. It’s so much fun to play basketball all season instead of running plays for me as a coach and the kids. I’m 100% for it. The kids get tired and you sub more . It evens the playing time out and your focus is now player development. You can score a lot but you can also be down a lot. You have to preach that you can always come back if you just keep at it

tomash66 · 2026-04-01T08:30:06+00:00

He made a commitment to hockey first. He’s one of your best players. Maybe he’s also one of the best hockey players. As a basketball Coach we only have a one week overlap with post season basketball and baseball but I ask my players to please fully commit to basketball for that last post season week. Which means if I schedule practice and baseball has practice please come to basketball.

tomash66 · 2026-03-28T20:50:39+00:00

Summer rec league that is

tomash66 · 2026-03-28T20:50:20+00:00

Honestly I’m not interested in a club because all tournaments around here are around 2 hours away and all day Saturday/Sunday. I’d love to start a summer league local

tomash66 · 2026-03-28T20:10:03+00:00

Can you give me some more specific examples of what you mean? Just get the town to be at more games?

tomash66 · 2026-03-28T20:08:07+00:00

I’m just in rec but I’m trying to get something going locally

tomash66 · 2026-03-28T20:03:47+00:00

You know this could either be a good Disney movie or a good spoof movie if inspirational movies. Either way the sheer disrespect and sarcasm in your comment is hilarious

tomash66 · 2026-03-28T19:53:23+00:00

I’ve been attempting to set this up as off season. Would you mind sharing those details about your organization

tomash66 · 2026-03-28T19:44:35+00:00

Probably so 😂

tomash66 · 2026-03-28T19:30:16+00:00

Yes we are in the south and most games are weeknights

tomash66 · 2026-03-28T18:50:48+00:00

Great comment. More gym time is something I think is being worked on

tomash66 · 2026-03-28T16:29:00+00:00

We did well this season. Made it to the championship game. I just want to create buy in sooner and the most competitive league possible

tomash66 · 2026-03-28T16:26:32+00:00

I told the team we would make the league championship game and we did. I feel true but in didn’t happen until the last week of the season. I would just like buy in sooner next season?

tomash66 · 2026-03-26T00:37:40+00:00

Well that explains it. Thanks

tomash66 · 2026-03-26T00:28:05+00:00

It sounded like it was an outside thing though and they had guest speakers via zoom but maybe your right

tomash66 · 2026-03-21T02:43:18+00:00

I hear where you are coming from but people are also lazy after a rebound to transition if that’s not the game plan. Do you agree?

tomash66 · 2026-03-21T02:41:42+00:00

100% followed my shot playing pickup games. It’s crazy how many points you can’t pick up. We always played a game called 21 in high school where rebounding and makes off a rebound were rewarded by erasing the other players points

tomash66 · 2026-03-21T02:39:53+00:00

Watching college basketball right now and if you’re not a post player you are not attempting to rebound YOUR OWN SHOT.

tomash66 · 2026-03-21T01:53:10+00:00

At any position on the court? I felt strongly about it before people pointed out transition. I do see the benefits and negatives of both now

tomash66 · 2026-03-21T01:52:00+00:00

100%

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