They also give on the court and off the court advice to inspiring coaches or future players as well as current players or coaches who want advice. If I can provide that kind of support system for our team-where the managers feel good, the assistants feel good, the freshman feels good about the senior, and the senior about the sophomore, and so on-then we're going to be that much stronger a team.

Der Kern seines Ansatzes ist es, als Anführer (leader klingt im englischen Buch bedeutend treffender) zwar die absolute Verantwortung für sein Team zu übernehmen, dabei aber so wenig wie möglich in das, was das Team tut einzugreifen. In fact, Krzyzewski tries to hire assistant coaches who have played for him because they're versed in on- and off-court problems. I might tell them that we're going to have a lot of fun this year, that we're going to grow as a team. Erst wird ein Thema mit einer Geschichte eröffnet, in der alle wichtigen Inhalte gezeigt werden und am Ende jedes Kapitels gibt es eine Zusammenfassung in Stichpunkten.The lessons that I'm taking for me from this book have to do with the fist: Communication, Trust, Collective Responsibility, Caring, and Pride in making things happen - and that any finger open in the fist make it more prone to be broken (that's the intensity of semi-pro/professional sports). Throughout the season, I look into my players' eyes to gauge feelings, confidence levels, and to establish instant trust. If I hope to get the most out of these players as a group, I have to coach them differently than previous teams. After college he worked alongside Indiana’s Bobby Knight as an assistant and eventually was recommended by Bobby for his head coaching position. A Handshake Deal Long before the first team meeting, during the recruiting process, I've made a handshake deal with every one of our players.

If a senior like Tommy Amaker, who's done everything right for nearly four years, is suddenly late for a team bus or a team meeting, I would wait a couple of minutes for him.Although he occasionally refers to a coach as a "leader," for the most part he leaves it up to readers to connect the dots between his coaching strategies and useful business strategies.

If the answer to that question is, "Yes, we should have a team," then we should have the best damn team we can possibly have. At times in the book, it felt like he had a chip on his shoulder and was attempting to set the record straight. Soon, I will be sharing my favorite quotes from this book, for its pages have undoubtedly left a mark on my perspective. Throughout his career, Coach K's ethos centred around fostering an environment and culture that focussed on openness, hard work and cooperation to ensure excellence on and off the court. For instance, I may ask them to concentrate on individual physical conditioning over the coming six weeks so that they are in really good shape by mid-October's first day of practice.The son of working-class Polish immigrants, he got a scholarship to West Point, where he became an accomplished player before becoming a coach.