Posts Tagged ‘preparation’

Why all the Yelling and Screaming?

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

On a repeat episode of the Daily Show last night, the guest was famed chef Mario Battali. The discussion moved to Gordon Ramsey and chefs who use their outside voice, and Battali said:

“Typically, chefs who yell at their cooks are expressing their own self-loathing for not having prepared their staff properly.”

Same is true with basketball coaches and players.

By Brian McCormick
Author, Cross Over: The New Model of Youth Basketball Development, Developing Basketball Intelligence and several other books for coaches.

Simplicity of Coaching

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

In Wednesday’s Los Angeles Times, I read an obituary for legendary El Segundo High School baseball coach John Stevenson, who won over 1,000 games and coached George Brett, among others.

His long-time assistant coach, Craig Cousins, said:

“He felt if you could prepare your players to the best of your ability and they went about their actions thinking they knew exactly what to do, they would do exactly that.”