ontario basketball

The Season Begins/Start Of Season Update

This will be a very short post explaining a major change to this blog for the next few months. As I stated in one of my initial posts, I am going to put my money where my mouth is. I have implemented the tools that I have outlined on this blog with my own team and have predicted success for my team this season.

Every day will now be more of a journal entry keeping readers up to date about how my team is progressing both in practices and in games. Stay tuned for updates and feel free to send me any questions or suggestions as the season unfolds.

Be Willing To Adapt






Coaching Clinics





How Much To Include In Playbook






Choosing Your Plays









Off-Season Structure



Here is what I do in each part of the year:


  1. Practices three days a week.
  2. Open gym scrimmages two days a week.
  3. Conditioning during 6th period three days a week.
  4. Weightlifting during 6th period two days a week.


  1. Practices three/four days a week.
  2. Skill Position bonus workouts twice a week.
  3. Weightlifting twice a week.


  1. Practices four days a week.
  2. Conditioning during 6th period three days a week.
  3. A few scrimmages.

Make Your Personnel Better

I spent my first few years at Ontario hoping for transfers and coming up with ways to make our program look more attractive to potential new players. It turns out that I wasted time that could have been spent improving the athletes that I already had at the school.


If you take the action that you want to improve your current roster, it will make you better now. Even if you are to get a transfer, the talent that is around them needs to be at a high level in order to have your team preform at the highest possible level.

Nothing can make your program better than a strong player development program both in the offseason and during the regular season. A great place to start would be to read the fundamental series that I posted over the prior few weeks.