Pure Sweat Basketball's Drew Hanlan

Drew Hanlen: Pure Sweat Basketball

This is an article on Drew Hanlen, creator of Pure Sweat Basketball.  I met Drew while working this Summer at the Snow Valley Camp.  Drew does a great job of teaching the game.  Ryan Goodson, who works with Pure Sweat, did a great job working with our guys this summer as well.  Drew has partnered with Alan Stein on some basketball projects. 

They are two of the great young guys in basketball.

Article Link:

 http://www.atlanticsun.org/news/default/117/3974/

Follow both Drew and Alan on the web:

Pure Sweat Basketball Link: http://www.puresweatbasketball.com/index.aspx

Drew Hanlen Belmont University Basketball Bio:http://belmontbruins.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/hanlen_drew00.html

Drew Hanlen Story from Webster Kirkwood Times: http://bit.ly/audrb4

Alan Stein Stronger Team Link: http://www.strongerteam.com/

Snow Valley's Don Showalter and the U17 US Championship Team

Pictured is our U.S. Under 17 International Championship Team from this summer.  The team is led by Snow Valley's Don Showalter.

Reflection and Leadership

The Golden Hour

Posted by Brian Tracy on Sep 21, 2010

You become what you think about most of the time. And the most important part of each day is what you think about at the beginning of that day.

Start Your Day Right
Take 30 minutes each morning to sit quietly and to reflect on your goals. You’ll find when you read the biographies and autobiographies of successful men and women that almost every one of them began their upward trajectory to success when they begin getting up early in the morning and spending time with themselves.
Feed Your Mind with Positive Ideas
This is called the Golden Hour. The first hour sets the tone for the day. The things that you do in the first hour prepare your mind and set you up for the entire day. During the first thirty to sixty minutes, take time to think and review your plans for the future.
Use Your Quiet Time Effectively
Here are four things that you can do during that quiet time in the morning.
Number one is personal planning. Take time to review your plans for accomplishing your goals and change your plans if necessary.
Number two is think of better ways to accomplish your goals and objectives. As an exercise, assume that the way you’re going about it is totally wrong and imagine going about it totally differently. What would you do different from what you’re doing right now?
Number three, reflect on the valuable lessons that you have learned and are learning as you move toward your goals.
Practice Daily Visualization
Number four; calmly visualize your goal as a reality. Close your eyes, relax, smile, and see your goals as though they were already a reality. Rewrite your major goals everyday in the present tense. Rewrite them as though they already existed. Write “I earn X dollars.” “I have a net worth of X.” “I weigh a certain number of pounds.” This exercise of writing and rewriting your goals everyday is one of the most powerful you will ever learn.
Fasten Your Seat Belt
Your life will start to take off at such a speed that you’ll have to put on your seatbelt. Remember, the starting point for achieving financial success is the development of an attitude of unshakable confidence in yourself and in your ability to reach your goals. Everything we’ve talked about is a way of building up and developing your belief system until you finally reach the point where you are absolutely convinced that nothing can stop you from achieving what you set out to achieve.
Everything Counts
No one starts out with this kind of an attitude, but you can develop it using the law of accumulation. Everything counts. No efforts are ever lost. Every extraordinary accomplishment is the result of thousands of ordinary accomplishments that no one recognizes or appreciates. The greatest challenge of all is for you to concentrate your thinking single-mindedly on your goal and by the law of attraction, you will, you must inevitably draw into your life the people, circumstances and opportunities you need to achieve your goals.
Become a Living Magnet
Once you’ve mastered yourself and your thinking, you will become a living magnet for ideas and opportunities to become wealthy. It’s worked for me and for every successful person I know. It will work for you if you’ll begin today, now, this very minute, to think and talk about your dreams and goals as though they were already a reality. When you change your thinking, you will change your life. You will put yourself firmly on the road to financial independence.

Action Exercises
Now, here are two things you can do every single day to keep your mind focused on your financial goals:
Number One:
First, get up every morning a little bit earlier and plan your day in advance. Take some time to think about your goals and how you can best achieve them. This sets the tone for the whole day.
Number Two:
Second, reflect on the valuable lessons you are learning each day as you work toward your goals. Be prepared to correct your course and adjust your actions. Be absolutely convinced that you are moving rapidly toward your goals, no matter what happens temporarily on the outside. Just hang in there!

WHICH TYPE OF LEADER ARE YOU?

WHICH TYPE OF LEADER ARE YOU?

A LEADER destined for SUCCESS asks,

....."What can we do to improve?"

A LEADER destined for FAILURE says,

....."That's the way it's always been done here."

Which are you?

Jerry Krause Drive and Kick Safety Valve

Jerry Krause Drive and Kick

Great for Starters! Rapid Fire Shooting Basics with Jerry Krause

Great for Starters! Shots at Game Speed with Jerry Krause

Great for Starters! Shooting Basics with Jerry Krause

Sean Miller 2 Player Drive and Kick

Thad Motta Sideline Pick and Pop

Thad Motta "Hubies"

Thad Motta Shot Fake Jumpers

Thad Motta Spot Shooting

Thad Motta Closeout Jumpers

Thad Motta Corner/Top of Key Jumpers

Thad Motta Transition Offense with Defense - One Dribble Jumpers

Thad Motta Transition Offense Shooting with Defense

Kevin Sutton Penetration and Skip/Kick

Kevin Sutton Shootaway - One More Drill

Bill Self Shootaway Drills

4 Strength and Conditioning Drills for Basketball

Kevin Eastman

Entitlement vs. Investment

POSTED NOV 10, 2008

As I travel around the country and work out with the best of the best from the High School, College, and NBA levels, I am continually reminded of what these players have in common that makes them great:

• they want to get better
• they want to know everything they can that will help them become a better basketball player
• they are committed to improvement of their bodies and their game
• they are very serious about the game every time they hit the floor
• they want to be coached

The best example I can give you is Kobe Bryant. He once told me that he does not work out any more……he now blacks out. He said that a workout just isn’t enough anymore if he’s going to stay on top of his game and take on all the players he knows are going to challenge him. He said he has to go beyond what all other players doing. He took his to a higher level. He took his to black outstatus!

What Kobe also was saying is what all players need to hear and need to know. He is willing toinvest in his improvement and not stay the same. He was willing to invest in his future and not stay the same. He is willing to invest in his game and not feel that he is entitled to be great, entitled to take every shot, entitled to have everything given to him. He was, and is, going to earn it.

The lesson here is one that I tell every one of the great players I work with: it’s not about entitlement if you want to be the best. It’s about investment.

I ask that each coach who reads this share this with his players. They need to know that being the best is not easy. They need to know that they need to invest in their futures (both on the court and off the court for that matter). Entitlement will lead to ultimate failure; investment will lead to future success.

A Good Article on the Positives of Playing Multiple Sports as a Youth

Ndamukong Suh, Footwork, & Youth Athletic Development

By Joe Haefner

If you have followed college football this season, you have probably heard the name Ndamukong Suh. He was a consensus First-team All-American and earned consensus First-team All-Big 12 honors and was the Associated Press National Player of the Year, Big-12 Defensive Player of the Year, the Defensive Lineman of the Year, and a Heisman Trophy finalist.

According to “experts”, what separates Suh from other players isn’t necessarily his strength, even though he is quite strong, it’s his superior footwork. As we know, footwork is probably one of the most important, yet undertaught skills in basketball.

A recent article on ESPN states “He (Suh) really credits his soccer background for his uncanny footwork.” Suh played soccer at a young age all the way through his 8th grade year.

If arguably the best d-lineman in the country, played multiple sports as a child and credits that for his superior athleticism, don’t you think that it would be a good idea for other youth athletes as well?

If you’ve read any of our past articles about athletic development, you’ll know that we preach for youth athletes to play multiple sports and avoid specialization at least before age 15. Some say 18.

Soccer, flag (or touch) football, & tag are a few great games you can play to improve footwork & athleticism.

Dribble tag and the jump stop drill are a few great ways to incorporate a basketball while working on footwork.

Post Play

8 Traits of a Post Player

THE GOAL OF NEVER ENDING IMPROVEMENT

THE GOAL OF NEVER ENDING IMPROVEMENT

“We have an innate desire to endlessly learn, grow, and develop. We want to become more than what we already are. Once we yield to this inclination for continuous and never-ending improvement, we lead a life of endless accomplishments and satisfaction."

What Is The Right Age To Focus On Wins and Losses and Start Playing Zone?

By Joe Haefner
On a page where we discuss defense at the youth & junior high level, I recently received these two questions from a junior high coach:

Do you believe there is an age where it is appropriate to play a zone?

Is there an age where you should start playing Win-Loss basketball?

These are very good questions and these are the conclusions I have come to:
 

Conclusion #1 - Zones should NOT be allowed until the second half of the Freshmen year in high school (typically 14 to 15 year olds).

Even at the junior high level (12 to 14 year olds), I’m very skeptical of playing zones for development purposes. Some coaches may argue this, but when I coached at the high school level, I dealt with so many kids that played zones at the lower levels that formed some terrible habits. We would spend entire seasons just trying to break bad habits that were formed by teams that trapped, played zones, junk defenses, and pressed when they were at the youth level. Sometimes, we never could break the habits.

When I was coaching a freshmen team, we scrimmaged against another team in the area that was in a league that did not allow teams to play zone until the second half of the season. I thought this was great.

1. Coaches get to spend more time on the fundamentals and building the player’s foundation, because they don’t have to worry about preparing for zones, presses, junk defenses within the first 10 practices.  Without a solid foundation, it doesn’t matter what you do, you are not going to be as successful.  
2. Coaches are forced to teach man to man principles before they go unto zone defense. So many coaches skip man to man principles and go straight to zone. As skill level and strength increases, these zones are ineffective because they don’t know man-ball principles, can’t stop the ball from dribbling by them, and some other bad habits (swarming the ball, going after every steal, etc.) that helped players get more turnovers at the youth level do not work anymore.

In other words, the zone that works at the youth level and junior high level won’t work at the high school level, because an effective zone defense at the youth level is not an effective zone defense at the varsity level for reasons listed above.

Conclusion #2 – I believe Win/Loss basketball should start around 7th grade (Age 13).

However, I think it’s a much lower emphasis on wins and losses than a high school varsity team. Your focus would still be on the developmental portion.

When you get to high school varsity, is when I believe that it truly becomes a win-loss philosophy.At the same time, some years you may be a better zone team, but it’s still a good idea to teach man to man defense, because you don’t want to have a player that doesn’t make it at the college level because he doesn’t know how to play man to man defense. It could literally cost them thousands of dollars through scholarships.

If you focus too much on the win-loss at youth and junior high level (and some would even say the junior varsity level), it could be detrimental for different reasons:

1. Undeveloped kids don’t develop because they don’t get any playing time. That’s why it’s key to get everybody fairly equal playing time. You have no idea who is going to be the best when they get older. A 5’10 kid who already matured may dominate now, but the 5’8 skinny kid who hasn’t hit puberty yet and grows to 6’8 by the time he is a senior may be the best chance for success as they get older.  How is he going to get any better if he’s not playing?
2. Tactics that work at this age (organized presses, zones, traps) won’t work at higher levels, because the foundation (fundamentals) has not been developed. On average, these presses are NOT run correctly. They just swarm the ball and the player that is 1 pass away, because the players are not strong enough to throw down the court and have not developed the ball handling skills to quickly react.

The truth is that COACHES and PARENTS are WAY more concerned about winning than kids under the age of 13. Most kids just want to play. They want to have fun. They are thinking about their own little world, not winning. And even if they think about winning, it’s not nearly as important to them as it is you. By the time, the game is over, they are just thinking about where they will get some pizza. Kids move on really fast. But parents and coaches dwell on the loss for days and hours. That’s too bad.

Trust me. A high school coach would much rather have you work on fundamentals and build a great foundation. If they have a great foundation, it’s relatively easy for them to throw in an effective trap, press, or zone. Not the other way around.

Basketball Tips: How to Get a Basketball Scholarship

By Jeff Haefner

Every year, thousands of high school and junior college basketball players compete to get one of the few basketball scholarships that are awarded each year. Here are somebasketball tips on how to increase your chances of being selected to receive one of those coveted positions.

Talent and Ability

First and foremost, you have to maximize your basketball skill. Every day you are not getting better, someone else is getting better than you. You have to work and work to become the best player you can be. Work on your skills, be in condition and get stronger.

The jump from high school to college is a big jump. Players are bigger, stronger and more experienced. The game is longer, faster and more physical than anything you have experienced so far in your career. Don’t fall into the trap that you are doing enough to get yourself ready. Without exception, when new college players report for their first workouts they are surprised at how different it is compared to high school. Work to be ready.

The Value of Summer Basketball

Basketball recruiting has changed drastically over the last 15 years. Rules that colleges have to abide by have become more restrictive. The pressure to get commitments from players has resulted in players deciding earlier and earlier on what schools they are going to attend. It is no longer sufficient to be a good player with your high school team. Your senior year in college has almost become irrelevant! Colleges need to identify prospects earlier and earlier in their career. Coaches now go to places where they can identify and evaluate multiple prospects at one time. The places for that have become AAU tournaments and high profile “recruiting summer camps.”

AAU (or Amateur Athletic Union) is an organization that sponsors amateur sporting events. In basketball, they sponsor spring, summer and fall tournaments in multiple age groups. The age brackets are usually 19 & under, 17 & under, 15 & under, etc. The advantage of that system is that you can play up a bracket to get in better competition (a 15 year old can play in a 17 & U tournament but a 17 year cannot play in a 15 & U tournament). The tournaments are usually played during “live” college recruiting periods so college recruiters heavily attend them. If you can find an AAU basketball team in your area and it is an appropriate age bracket it would be well worth your effort to join the program.

High profile “recruiting camps” are camps that are held during the summer that attract high-level players, which in turn, attract college recruiters. Most of these are private camps, not camps owned by universities, colleges or high schools. They usually offer excellent instruction and very competitive games. Call a couple of colleges and find out what camps they attend to evaluate prospects and make plans to attend.

Summer basketball has become the most significant aspect of recruiting. At no other time can a college coach go to one spot and evaluate 300-400 players at one time. If you want to get one of those scholarships, you have to be where the coaches are.

Be Pro-Active

Don’t wait for a college to find you, go find them. If there are schools that you are interested in, contact them early, and let them know of your interest. Visit the campus, invite the coach to come and see you play. Have your high school coach contact the schools you are interested in. Be sure they have the information they need to evaluate you. Things like game schedules, summer schedules, etc. should be sent to all schools you are interested in. Return all questionnaires and comply with all the requirements that they have for acceptance to school.

Take Care of Your Schoolwork

Believe it or not, college coaches want athletes with good grades! Players in college are “student-athletes.” They attend class, write papers, and do research. Coaches really don’t like to take chances on academic risks. Get good grades; take your standardized tests (SATs, ACTs) as early and as often as possible. Unless you are truly a great player, coaches will not wait for you.

To get a scholarship, you have to register for the NCAA Initial Eligibility Clearinghouse. This is the organization that will evaluate your grades to determine whether or not you are eligible to play. Even if you are in junior college, they will go back to your high school grades to determine your eligibility (there are different rules for “qualifiers” and “non-qualifiers” coming out of high school and junior college). Take care of your registration as early as possible.

There used to be a saying, “if you can play, they will find you.” That is NOT true any more!! Being able to play is not enough, now. You have to be out where the coaches can find you.

Why Shoot With An Arc?

By Don Kelbick

Is the hole in the rim the same size all the time?

Do you think that’s a strange question?

When I was in pilot training, I learned that the outer end of a propeller moves faster than the inner end. I could not figure out how that could be. They are all connected to the same hub and it only spins at one speed.

Well, when you look at the definition of speed, it is the time it takes to move a mass over a prescribed distance (e. g. miles per hour). Since the far end of a prop has to travel a longer distance than the part near the hub, but must complete its trip in the same amount of time, it must be moving faster.

So, I ask again, is the hole in the rim the same size all the time?

I would argue “No!”

Try this experiment. Get a round trash pail. Put it on the floor and look down on it. How big is the hole, how much do you see? Now, pick up the pail and put the rim of the pail at eye level. How big is the hole, how much do you see now?

Same pail, same hole, different situations. Looking at the hole with the pail on the ground you can see a big hole. Looking at it at eye level, the amount of the hole you can see is very small.

Now imagine your eyes are the ball when you are shooting a basketball. Which angle gives you the best chance to put the ball in the basket? The answer is obviously the angle in which it can see the most hole.

The ball has the best chance to go through the hole when it enters from above. We have all heard that 2 basketballs can go through the hole at the same time. But that is only true when the balls enter from directly above, when the hole is bigger. In fact, when putting balls in the hole from directly above, you can fit 5 balls in the hole at once (I said in the hole, not through).

When shooting a low trajectory shot, if the ball hits the rim, the forward momentum will overpower the downward momentum and probably skip forward off the rim. With a higher trajectory, a larger hole, more downward momentum, the ball hits the rim and rolls through the hole.

The optimum arc is different for everyone because there is a comfort level here. There is a point where too much arc also adds more distance to the shot and it could turn a 20 foot shot into a 25 foot shot and now you are out of your range, but I would say use as much arc as you can comfortably use.

So, is the hole the same size all the time?

Don Meyer 2 Ball Dribbling

Don Meyer Guard Work - Dribble Juggle, 2 Ball Dribbling

Another Successful Read and React Program

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Peterson named IIAC Coach of the Year

Wed, Mar 3, 2010 - [Women's Basketball]

Head Coach Randi Peterson became the first women's basketball coach to earn Coach of the Year honors for Coe.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Coe Head Women's Basketball Coach Randi Peterson has been named the Iowa Conference Coach of the year.  She becomes the first Coe women's basketball coach to win the honor.  Four Kohawks were also named to the All-Iowa Conference team, with two being first team selections.Peterson led Coe to its first Iowa Conference women's basketball championship with a 13-3 record in league play. The Kohawks closed their season at 19-8 after an IIAC Tournament Championship loss to Simpson.  Coe's 19 wins is the second most in school history.

Coe led the Conference in scoring defense (59.4 points/game), rebounding margin (+5.1), assists (17.22 assists/game), rebounding (40.5 rebounds/game), rebounding defense (35.4 rebounds/game), field goal percentage defense (37.8 percent), 3-point field goal percentage defense (30.2 percent), and assist-to-turnover ratio (0.94). This marks the first time Peterson has been named IIAC Women's Basketball Coach of the Year.

Two Kohawks, junior Kayla Lincoln (Maynard, Iowa/West Central) and sophomoreKayla Waskow (Dunkerton, Iowa/Dunkerton) were named to the All-Iowa Conference First Team.  Juniors Devvin Rolston (Clinton, Iowa/Clinton) and Kaitlin Breitbach(Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Washington) were honorable mention selections.

Waskow broke Coe's single-season scoring record with 395 points.  SHe was fifth in the Iowa Conference in scoring and third in field goal percentage, while also ranking 15th in the nation in field goal percentage.

Lincoln hit 50 3-point baskets on the year, the third most in school history.  She was fifth in the league in 3-pointers made, while ranking sixth in blocked shots.

Breitbach was second in the league in assists and first in assist-to-turnover ration.  She ranked 15th in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio, while she was 67th in assists per game.

Rolston ranked fourth in the league in field goal pecentage and 15th in blocked shots.

This was the first time being named to the All-Iowa Conference team for any of the four players selected.

NBA Pick 'n Roll Plays

NBA Pick 'N Roll Plays

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1-4 High Offense

Foul Up 3?

Harvard Study - Foul Up 3?

BLOB NOVA Variety

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Post Seal Drill

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Post Play with Don Showalter

Don Showalter is the Head Coach for Mid-Prairie Wellman. He also coaches the USA 17 and under squad that won the FIBA international title this year. Players who went to Snow Valley in Waverly will recognize him as he is one of the lead instructors there as well.
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Nutrition

Cardinal Nutritional Guide

Syracuse Running Program

Syracuse Running Program

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Lions are NCCAA National Champions

Mon, Mar 23, 2009 - [Men's Basketball]

CONGRATULATIONS TO The Emmanuel College Lion's Basketball Team - 2009 NCCAA MEN'S DIVISION I NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!

The Emmanuel College Lions capped off an unthinkable season by bringing home the school's first ever National Championship.  The Lions were winners of 25 games this year including 12 of their last 14 and five in a row that led them to the championship.  The Lions beat two NCAA Division 2 teams in South regional to make it to the national tournament.  They beat Chowan for the regional championship after trailing by 18 with just 10 minutes left.  The Lions traveled to Oakland City, Indiana for the Elite 8.  In the Elite 8 the Lions found themselves trailing by 10 with about 12 minutes to go before going on a 42-6 run to finish the game.  The Lions then held on for a 4 point victory in the Final Four.  In the finals the lions faced Nyack College another NCAA Division 2 team for the championship.  The Lions went down 7-0 to start the game before putting a 38-13 run on Nyack for an 18 point halftime lead.  Nyack clawed back but Emmanuel was able to hold on for a 67-62 win and the school's first ever National Championship.

Senior Jaeves McLendon was named All Tournament and Micah Hayes was named Tournament MVP.  The teams top two scorers, Teddy Hudson and Ben Brim, both received All-American Status; and Coach T.J. Rosene was named National Coach of the Year.

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What is Kevin Garnett Like?

From Boston Celtic assistant Kevin Eastman

...

1. Talented.
2. Passionate.
3. He works on his game every day.
4. He wants to know what you know that can make him better.
5. He is incredibly competitive in games.
6. He never makes excuses (in fact he blames himself).
7. He wants the truth.
8. He can respond and deal with failure.

Six Qualities of Character Essential for Muturity

Six Qualities of Character Essential for Muturity

SINCERITY. Some people we know always have their cards face up. We know where they stand and we know where we stand with them. There is no sham, pretense, hypocrisy, apple-polishing, show, arrogance or equivocation. They are real all the way through. This is an essential ingredient in getting along with people.


PERSONAL INTEGRITY. This refers to the special qualities of decency, honesty, loyalty, fair play and honor. An individual with a real personal integrity has a deep sense of responsibility and dependability. He is sound. He keeps his promises. He lives up to his commitments.


HUMILITY. If one picks out the great leaders of our present, of our past, one invariably finds the character trait humility. Maturity is usually combined with modesty. Never is it present in the smart alecks, the know-it-alls, the self appointed saviors, nor the persons who know the answers before they hear the questions,


COURTESY. This means much more than just being thoughtful or polite to other people, It means tolerance. I have my eccentricities and peculiarities and I approve of you having yours. You are just as good as I am, and I’ll respect your right to speak your piece even if I don’t agree, this is courtesy in its largest sense. Can you, under pressure, remain gracious, considerate, and courteous?


WISDOM. There isn’t any escape from the fact that, even though an individual might, be sincere and humble and courteous, unless he has the wisdom to make the right decisions and actions, to do the right things at the right time, to give correct guidance and counsel when it is indicated, he doesn’t get along with people.


CHARITY. Maybe this is the most important attribute for any personality. In its broadest interpretation it means the capacity to love. It implies acceptance of the fact that we all have weaknesses; we all make mistakes. To be able to get along with people requires the charity of forgiveness. Are you big enough and generous enough to love your neighbor as yourself?




Six Qualities of Character Essential for Maturity by: Horace E. Hudson, Cooperative Extension Service, The University of Georgia
Adopted from materials on Character and Moral Development University of Illinois, Cooperative Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics, Urbana, Illinois