Parents, and players, I know in the coming weeks I will be getting a ton of questions about what my philosophy and my playing style is. So, here are the answers!
First, philosophy. I love this game. One of the reasons I love it so much is because I feel that the course of a basketball game and season really mimic the course of life. Basketball is a game of runs, you have good runs, and other teams have good runs. What determines the difference from a good and bad team is how you handle the runs of the other team. Life is very similar to that. We have good times, we have bad times. How do you handle yourself when things are going great, and how do you handle yourself when times are bad? When you are up big, do you showboat? Do you degrade and show up your opponent? Are you humble through victory? When you're down do you lash out at your teammates or your opponent or your coaches? Or do you work harder to make sure you never lose like that again? I believe that sport, and especially basketball, can really teach our young men how to become good men.
Second strategy. I currently believe the game is over coached and the kids do not know how to play anymore. For this reason, I will install the Read and React offense. The point of the R&R is to teach the players to recognize and take advantage of scoring opportunities at any moment of the possession. At first, we will probably struggle to score, but by the end of our time together, the boys will be really hard to stop if they learn to take advantage of the situations the defense gives them.
On defense, we will play mostly an active 2-3 zone and man to man. I feel that many young players don't like man, so by the time they get to high school, where most teams play man, they are behind. I really want to teach them the importance of defense and to take pride in their play on the defensive side of the ball. I hope to be the best defensive team in our leagues and teams will be frustrated by the end of each game trying to score against us. The best compliment I ever received wasn't actually a compliment. It was a coach yelling at his team to take better shots because they were not getting good looks and were only getting one opportunity to score because of our rebounding. This is what I strive for, to be a strong defensive and rebounding team, and to be opportunistic on offense.
If we do this, not only will we be a good team, but each player will become better!
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Friday, March 14, 2014
UBC Basketball Introduction
Parents and Players,
Welcome to my blog, with which I will use to communicate. Congrats on making the team. I know I will do my best to make this worth your time, all I ask is for you to come to practices and work as hard as possible. My practices will be hard and they will require work. If you come with a good attitude and an open mind, you will not only become more skilled, but I promise your basketball IQ will go up and you will become a much better player.
So, I am Coach James Taylor. I currently am a Varsity assistant with Lehi High School, I just finished my first season with them. I played until my Junior year at Pleasant Grove High School. I stopped playing to pursue a career in competitive ballroom dancing. After my Junior year of college, I signed a professional contract with a studio in Las Vegas and DanceLife shoe company, but I suffered a career ending injury. After that, I started coaching at Cedar High in Cedar City. I coached there for three seasons. I also was a 9th grade assistant at Pleasant Grove Junior High for three seasons. I love coaching, and I really believe that you can teach young men great life lessons through the sport of basketball.
Our administrative assistant is my wife Alycia. She works for Wells Fargo Bank and will be handling the financial end of our relationship. She will use the basketball email account or text you if she needs to contact you for payments. She is also the one you will need talk to if you need some extra time to make a payment.
Our assistant coach is David West. David just graduated from SUU with a degree in P.E. and Health and a minor in coaching. He was a manager for both the men's and women's teams for three years at SUU. We were roommates and teammates on intramural teams in college. He played basketball and baseball at Mineral County High School in Nevada, playing in the state championship his senior year.
I hope that we can have a successful season!
Coach T
Welcome to my blog, with which I will use to communicate. Congrats on making the team. I know I will do my best to make this worth your time, all I ask is for you to come to practices and work as hard as possible. My practices will be hard and they will require work. If you come with a good attitude and an open mind, you will not only become more skilled, but I promise your basketball IQ will go up and you will become a much better player.
So, I am Coach James Taylor. I currently am a Varsity assistant with Lehi High School, I just finished my first season with them. I played until my Junior year at Pleasant Grove High School. I stopped playing to pursue a career in competitive ballroom dancing. After my Junior year of college, I signed a professional contract with a studio in Las Vegas and DanceLife shoe company, but I suffered a career ending injury. After that, I started coaching at Cedar High in Cedar City. I coached there for three seasons. I also was a 9th grade assistant at Pleasant Grove Junior High for three seasons. I love coaching, and I really believe that you can teach young men great life lessons through the sport of basketball.
Our administrative assistant is my wife Alycia. She works for Wells Fargo Bank and will be handling the financial end of our relationship. She will use the basketball email account or text you if she needs to contact you for payments. She is also the one you will need talk to if you need some extra time to make a payment.
Our assistant coach is David West. David just graduated from SUU with a degree in P.E. and Health and a minor in coaching. He was a manager for both the men's and women's teams for three years at SUU. We were roommates and teammates on intramural teams in college. He played basketball and baseball at Mineral County High School in Nevada, playing in the state championship his senior year.
I hope that we can have a successful season!
Coach T
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