Forget Coaches and Trainers: Why It's Up To YOU - 3 Big Keys Players Need To Know (Episode 48)

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Anytime we're in a workout and really doing anything in that workout could be ball handling, could be some sort of move or whatever. I'm always encouraging guys to mess things up. I'm always doing it, especially if we do ball handling. I'm always encouraging guys to try new things. I'm encouraging guys to go a little bit faster than maybe they're comfortable. Let's say we're doing a stationary drill or we're doing some sort of on air drill, then I'm going to encourage those guys to do it faster and try and push themselves, try and be uncomfortable with what they're doing. And then same thing. If we're in a workout, we're doing some sort of competitive thing, some sort of one on one, two on two situation. I'm going to encourage guys to try different things, to be aggressive in different ways that maybe they're not comfortable doing because that's where you're going to grow the most. So yeah, in that workout it's not going to look great when you mess up something maybe multiple times. But again, we don't like, we work out to be better when it comes to games. That's Ultimately, the goal, the goal is to be as good as possible when the games come and the scores are kept and the referees are there and there's actually a time and you know, people win and lose and people win trophies and people don't win trophies. That's when it matters. So ultimately our workout should be geared towards helping us grow as much as possible. So when it comes to having that growth mindset, that growth approach, this also is the case when it comes to how you interact with your coaches and your trainers, the people that you work with that help you get, get better, and that this can refer to like your in person school coaches, your AU coaches, your in person trainers, strength coach, whatever. Or it could be from, you know, anything that I tell you or any of my workouts or anything like that. This really applies to both. So today's episode is all about how to get the most value out of your coaches and your trainers. So this is something that I see fairly often and both as a, as a high school coach as well as in my own training and especially over the past few months, being able to work with so many different players online with my different programs and all that, I've seen patterns between players who make, who actually experience growth and those who don't really. And it really, a lot of times just comes down to how much they are willing to put into that relationship with their trainer or their coach or whoever it might be. Because there's two sides to it. Obviously there's what that trainer is going to help you with, but also it's how do you help yourself? We're going to kind of get into some, like, some details with that. But, but the thing that you have to keep in mind is that no matter how good a coach is, if a player is unreceptive to that coaching, then there's nothing that that coach can do. They can be the best coach in the world. They can know everything about skill development. They can do everything about, you know, they can know everything about athletic development. They can do everything about, you know, mindset and you know, how to help players best learn things. They can know all the science behind everything, no matter how good they may be. If you're not receptive to it, then you're not going to garner the benefits from being around or from learning from that coach. And it's something that I see often and I've experienced and it's one that I think I definitely need to talk about. So there's three specific things that we're going to go through that you need to be able to keep in mind. And this, these three things are what's going to help you to gain the maximum amount of value out of these coaches, your trainers you work with, and ultimately get the best results long term when working with these coaches and these trainers. Because we don't want is for you to put in all this work and not get what you want out of it. So these three things are going to help you with that. So, number one, the first thing is, know that you know nothing. Know that you know nothing. That's number one. And so what I mean by this, the, the quote, know that you know nothing is inspired by a quote from Socrates and who is a philosopher in ancient, ancient Greece. And he basically was in a situation where the Pythia or the High priestess said that, oh, Socrates is the wisest. And his response to that was, I know that I know nothing. And that was why he was the wisest, right? He wasn't the wisest because he knew things. He wasn't the wisest because he had all these experiences that nobody else had and nobody could ever question him and all this sort of stuff. He understood that he knew nothing in the sense of he had so much to learn that he was able to sit back and actually recognize that. So while there may be some other person who, you know, might also be considered wise and they have a big head thing that they know this, they know that. Oh yeah, I know this, I know that and I'm so good and all this. Socrates wasn't like that. He was, he, he was able to admit to himself, like, listen, I have a lot of stuff I don't know. There's a lot of stuff that I'm unaware of. And because of that, I'm able to continue to grow and become better and become wiser because I understand that I have so much more to learn. And that was what separated him right there. And this is called the Socratic paradox. So one of the things that I see, maybe the biggest thing, is that players feel like they're above the coaches they work with. Now, just a disclaimer again, there's obviously coaches who don't know what they're doing. And I'm not going to sit here and say that that doesn't exist. What I will say is that even coaches who aren't very good, I guarantee you there is something that you can learn from that coach, some sort of nugget of truth in what they're telling you that will help you. But a lot of times it comes back to you being Able to sit back and say, you know what? I don't know everything. I don't. I might have a lot of experience, and I just. I don't know everything. So kind of going back to the review that I read earlier, one of the major things that I think that kind of sparked is, like, at the end of it, where you say, yeah, in a few years, like, you're going to be, you know, this and that. And, like, that's really what it is. Like, I understand right now. I don't know that much. And that doesn't mean that I can't help anybody, because I know that I can. That doesn't mean that, you know, I don't have stuff that can help you, but I'm able to sit back and say, you know, I have so much more to learn in this category. I have so much more to learn in this category. I have so much more growth to go here. And so I'm able to kind of be around people who maybe have done more in. In basketball training, who have done more in my industry, and I'm able to say, hey, you know what? I need to learn from this guy, because this guy's been doing it for a while. There's nothing like experience. And that's what. That's what that guy. Maybe that guy's been doing this for 20 years, right? And maybe they've had experience at a really high level. So I need to be able to sit back and say, hey, you know what? I got to see what they're doing. And I might think off the bat, my gut reaction, oh, that's wrong. But I've got to be able to sit back and say, hey, maybe they know something. I don't know. And that's the same thing when it comes to players. Like, you've got to be able to sit back and say, hey, you know what? I might not know everything about this. So when I see a coach doing this, when I see somebody doing this, or when they tell me something, I've got to be able to say, hey, you know what? Maybe I don't know that. Maybe I don't know anything about that. And I even catch myself doing this sometimes. I'll see different trainers post stuff online, and I might look at something right away and be like, that's not right. Maybe they're doing a drill that I think is a waste of time, or they say something that I completely disagree with, something that I try and catch myself is. Is just being like, okay, maybe there's some sort of piece of that that's actually true that I don't know about. Maybe I'm actually the one in the wrong right here. And that might lead me to doing more research on that. If there's a drill that I'm not sure about, that might lead me to go try that drill out, see how it feels for myself, and then maybe I can say, oh, you know, maybe there is a piece of that that works. If there's some sort of cue that they're using on, you know, on a drive, say, okay, when you drive, you want to do this with your feet and that with. Well, maybe I've got to try that out and see what it's like. Maybe I've got to look around and see what other trainers are doing, guys who maybe are well respected and maybe. And I've caught myself different times thinking something is really stupid. And then a couple weeks later, a couple months later, like, I'm fully on board with it because I actually was exposed to it, learned about it, and all of a sudden my, my outlook on and my approach to it is completely different. So as a player, you've got to also be able to humble yourself and say, hey, I don't know everything. I've got a lot more. I can grow. I've got a lot. There's a lot of space for me to get better. And because of that, I need to make sure that I take that approach when I'm being coached. Okay, if you are, if you have a school coach, you have a trainer, you pick that trainer, right? And again, maybe your school coach, you don't have a choice in what school you go to. Maybe not, but maybe, you know, you don't, you don't have to play basketball there. If you don't like the coach, you don't have to play for him, right? So if you're going to play for them or you're going to train with them, at the end of the day, you've got to listen to what they're saying. You've got to say, hey, I know nothing. I'm going to get better. And you're going to see the way that you develop, the way that you grow be significantly better. The rate that you develop at is going to be significantly better. When you can sit back, humble yourself and just soak up what that person is saying to you, what they're trying to teach you, instead of having some gut reaction saying, hey, you know what? No, I don't need to know this. I already know this. I already am good at this. I already do this. That's wrong. This is right. All that sort of stuff. I'm not saying to just blindly follow people that maybe are wrong with something. I'm not saying everybody's right on everything. I'm not saying that at all. Okay. What I'm saying is that if you end up picking a trainer or a coach or whatever, you've got to be able to stick with what they tell you. Okay. And understand that even with bad coaches, there's going to be some nugget that you can take from that that's going to make you better, if you're willing to accept that. Okay? So this is kind of what. What Danny and I talked about last week. So on. On the. On my. On last week's podcast episode, I had my guy, Danny Cooper, on talking about a whole bunch of different topics. But one of the things we talked about was, you know, when you get into basketball training, because both of us are pretty young, when you get into it, you start doing it, and you're around a bunch of different players, different coaches, you start to realize that I have so much more to learn. Right. When I was in high school, I felt like I knew a lot, and this is why I think this. This point needs to be made. I felt that I knew so much when I was in high school about training because I just, again, I worked with a bunch of different trainers. I was putting myself through workouts, but also my teammates. And so I felt like I knew how to go from point A to point B. And then as I get farther along with this, I recognize that there's so much more to it, whether that be the skill development part of it, which is very complex. And then there's the athletic development part of that, that's also very complex, the mental side of things. And there's so much to learn about it. And that's kind of the great thing about it, is that there's so much more that I can improve. Okay. But that takes me humbling myself, going from, hey, yeah, I know a lot, to being like, I don't know that much, but I want to be better. So I'm going to go ahead and learn. And that's the approach that you have to take as well as a player if you want to maximize the value you can get from that coach. That's, number one, know that you know nothing. Number two is listen and ask questions. So the one thing that you have to be able to also do is kind of set your ego aside and be willing to ask questions when you have them. The thing with a good coach is that they're not just going to give you the answers right away. They're not just going to say, okay, here's this, here's that, here's this, do this, do this, do this. And they're not going to do that for every single thing. At some point they're just going to say, hey, figure it out. Okay? Coaching is really about guiding your players and putting you in the best position to become almost self reliance. Because at the end of the day, when you're in a game, you're the one who's playing, the coach isn't playing. You're the one who's got to be able to figure it out. If the defense changes up how they do things during the game, the coach isn't the one who's going to make the counter move. The coach is the one who is going to be able to recognize that a pass is open that maybe you didn't see before, maybe you didn't scout before. That's not the coach's responsibility. That's on you. So a good coach is going to put you in a position to be able to figure things out. It's the cliche saying, right, where you give a man a fish, he can eat for a day, you teach a man how to fish, he can eat for a lifetime. That's really what it is. A great coach is going to teach you how to fish, going to teach you how to figure things out. This is why I love putting my players in competitive situations and workouts. Because there's nothing like developing the skill of being able to just figure it out. Okay, we can go through our block drills, our normal drills, and you might have a set goal you have to accomplish. It might be a very, very straightforward way to get there. Okay, if we're going to do, you know, let's say we're going to do some stationary ball handling and you got to do a combo, well, that's pretty straightforward. You can be kind of mindless with it at times. But if all of a sudden there's a defender and you got to go, you know, handle pressure or you've got to go finish, maybe we're bringing a health defender across the paint. If, you know, we're playing off of a ball screen, now all of a sudden you have a defender who's guarding you well, now there's a read you have to be able to make. You have to be able to figure out how to get the job done. That defender might play you differently every single time. But as you Continue to do that, you get better and better at it. Your ability to figure things out and be self reliant becomes better and better. And ultimately that's how, that's what good basketball players are able to do. They're able to figure things out when the answer isn't straightly just presented to them every single time. If I'm in a situation with a player or players in a workout, we might be going through some sort of competitive drill and maybe they keep on, you know, making the wrong read or they keep on losing the basketball or they keep on doing, you know, maybe we worked on two different counters and they're going to the wrong counter or whatever. I'm not always going to say, hey, you should have done that. I'm always going to say, hey, you know, next time do this, I might give them a couple times, I might say, I might not say a word for five or six possessions and just see if they can figure it out. See if they can recognize, oh, this didn't work, so maybe I need to do this. And then as they do that, their confidence in themselves just continues to rise and rise and rise because they recognize like, hey, yeah, I can do this, like I can figure this out. That's where, that's where I believe good coaching stems from, is your ability to help your players figure things out. And so, you know, again, we can think about it like this with your driving test, right? So you know, for my state of Pennsylvania, it's 16. So we turn 16. You can take your, your written test and then get your permit. The written test, very straightforward. You go study out of a book or whatever, you go to the DMV and then you go on to the computer and you just fill out the multiple choice test. And if you get a certain score, you pass, you get your permit. Cool. Well, what do you do when you get your permit? At that point you have to get a certain amount of driving hours as practice with an adult. So usually your parents or just an older adult in the car with you. So they the that it's the same principle right here, right. Experience is ultimately the best teacher. So that's why the state isn't just like, oh yeah, just take a written test. If you have all the knowledge, then we'll just throw you on the roads. Because there's a difference between knowing everything and then actually knowing how to drive. What do you do when it starts heavily raining? Okay, how do you drive in the snow? What do you do if there's, you know, a car accident on the highway and you got to take a detour, right? Those are things that you don't necessarily think about, but you, just as you experience it, you get better and better. And I know everybody who gets snow knows what I'm talking about. The first couple times you're on snow, it's usually not great. Usually are. And usually, like, that's where it becomes pretty dangerous because you don't understand how to maneuver through it. So as you get better and better and better, it becomes just, you know, I won't say easier because snow is not easy to drive in, but you become more comfortable doing it. You can become more confident in your ability to do it. And it's the same thing again with training. So what you need to be able to do is that your coach isn't just going to be somebody who just gives you answers off the bat, okay? You've got to be able to step up and figure things out as well. If your coach puts you in a position on the court, he might not tell you exactly when to cut to the basket. He might not tell you exactly when to fill to a certain spot on the floor. He might not tell you exactly when to flash the middle on a press. But are you able to figure that stuff out? That's where it becomes about the relationship between a coach and a player. Where I think for a lot of players, it needs to change. It can't be. I'm so reliant on my coach to tell me every single thing I have to do. It needs to become. My coach is going to give me some guidance, he's going to put me in the right position, and then it's on me to be able to take that step forward and figure things out and kind of bridge that gap. Okay? It needs to become more about not just the. The trainer kind of picking you up or the coach picking you up, but you guys kind of meeting each other halfway and then lifting each other up. That's where that the, again, the mutually beneficial relationship kind of comes into play. So this again comes down to listening and asking questions as well. So listen. But also, again, I talked about it. You want to make sure that you are able to say, I don't know everything, and be able to ask questions about things you might not understand and asking good questions a lot of times where that guidance comes into play. Okay. The other thing, going back to the Socrates point. Well, one of the things that probably a lot of you guys have done school is a Socratic circle where you're basically going around and it's like that kind of goes back to the whole. It's almost like a community coming together to discuss a topic. So it's not one person lecturing you. It's a whole group of people who are going through a topic where you're asking questions, doing all these things. And it again goes back to not, you know, not feeling like you have to do everything yourself. You have a question, then a lot of times being around other people, asking another person, and specifically in this situation, your coach or your trainer can help to guide you in that right direction. Okay? But this also means that you have to understand that the coach can't give you a 100% concrete answer. Every single time. I get so many questions like saying, hey, you know, should I play for this AAU team or that AAU team? And I can't, I can't answer that question for you. Should I, you know, get more arc on my shot or should I, should I put my hand right here on my shot or should I bend my legs more on my shot or you know, should I, should I work on my ball handling or should I work on my finishing my left hand? Those are things that maybe right? It depends. I can't tell you 100% for sure. I can say most of these are important. Most of the things are a yes, but it depends on you. So again, I'm gonna help guide you in the right direction, but I can't always give you like, yes, you gotta do this, then do this. Exactly, then do this exactly. And then that 100% is going to get you where you need to get to. You have to be able to ask questions and be humble about it, but also understand that you've got to step up and just figure it out sometimes. And that's where self reliant players come from. And those are the type of players that are ultimately the most successful ones. So the third one, the third point that you guys need to understand if you want to get the most amount of value out of your coaches, out of your trainers, out of any sort of training you're doing, is that games need to be played. I should say game needs to, the game needs to be played. And what that means is that, you know, no matter who your coach is, so whether it's me, whether it's your team coach, AU coach, some sort of in person trainer, strength coach, your physical therapist, whoever it might be who's helping you with something, the advice that they give you is only as good as what you end up doing with it. So at the end of the day, they might give you game, but you have to actually play the game. At some point, the game has to be played. That advice has to be carried out. What they, what they coach you with eventually has to be used. And if you don't use it, then again, no matter how good that coach might be, it's not going to matter. The results aren't going to present themselves. And, you know, you can watch my podcast, you can watch my videos, do my workouts. You can, you know, have a, you can hire a trainer, whatever it might be, but if you don't follow what they tell you to do, they don't, you know, you don't, you don't, you don't play the game that you're given, then ultimately it's. It's a waste of time for you. So this is kind of a point that I posted about the last couple days on Instagram, actually, I think twice in the past week I posted about this. Basically, it's a quote, and it says the best coaches have the best players. The best trainers have the best players, the best teachers have the best students. So what exactly does that mean? Well, ultimately, what it means is that the coaches who are considered the best aren't just the best because they're the best with X's and O's or the best at skill development or the best, whatever. They're the best because they have the best players. And something that. A quote by John Wooden, it says that, or he was asked, what's the key to being a great coach? And his answer was having great players. And that's. It's, it's such a simple thing, but I think it's overlooked a lot of times we look at these great coaches. Bill Belichick. Bill Belichick, before he was in the Patriots, was coaching with the Browns. And, you know, what did he do with the Browns? Well, he did the same as the thing that everybody else did with the Browns. He didn't win any games. And so he goes from the Browns where he's looked at as an unsuccessful coach, and then all of a sudden goes to the Patriots where he's got a better organization, better owner, and a better, just better situation in general. And, you know, now he's considered the greatest coach of all time, and that. So was he a bad coach when he was with the Browns, or is he the best coach of all time? Well, if we just go straight up, you know, record, it's, it's. You might say, hey, you know, one point, Belichick was a bad coach, but that's not necessarily because he was actually bad at X's and O's, or he was bad at player development or he was bad at scouting or whatever. It probably was just because he didn't have very good players. And then he gets, he's in the Patriots, he has guys like Tom Brady and the brain, guys like Randy Moss, and you have, you know, these, these, these players. And then you develop a system built by a great coach and you have that great, that great coach is now known as the greatest of all time. So at the end of the day, as good as you might be as a coach, you're only as good as your players are. So it's, it's, it's the same thing we talk about Steve Kurt, right? Steve Kerr takes over the warriors and 2016. 73, 9 wins Coach of the year. And you know, you know, just absolutely historical, like historic team, historic performance upset by LeBron James, but still 73,9. Incredible. Absolutely incredible and obviously well deserved coach of the year. Last season, the warriors, still coached by Steve Kerr, get the second pick in the NBA draft. Now, obviously Steph Curry was hurt and so Clay was hurt. Obviously they're down a little bit because they lose two star players. But does that mean that Steve Kerr is now a bad coach? Because on a lot of teams, if you get the second pick in the draft, you're getting fired. It's not because T. Kerr is a bad coach necessarily. It's because he didn't have his hall of Fame players. And, and so then the question becomes, is Steve Kerr a great coach? He won coach of the year, or is he a terrible coach because he got the second pick in the draft? He's probably somewhere in the middle of that. But it ultimately comes down to what players do you have. A coach is only as good as their players are, okay? Great coaches are built by great players. So we take this for example with an English teacher, okay? An English teacher who has a class full of students who are smart, who work hard, who want to learn and be taught that those students are going to do better. Therefore, that teacher is going to look like a great teacher. They might not even be a great teacher. They might every other day just put a movie on in class. But when they do teach, their students are so focused that they naturally do well because they put in the work and they are self driven to be great at that. It doesn't require any sort of pushing or prodding from their teacher. They just, they want to do it themselves. They want to be, they want to Learn, they want to get better. Okay? That same English teacher, if she has a class that isn't very smart, they don't want to learn, they don't want to be taught, and they don't work very hard, then the class is going to do poorly and the teacher is going to look bad. Oh, that's a bad teacher. All of her students are bad. Well, it's the same exact thing. It's just two different classrooms. So that's how we are kind of evaluating how coaches are. At the end of the day, it comes down to your players. So one thing that, you know, kind of as a kind of a side note to any coaches or trainers who are watching, that's something to consider, right? Every dollar ain't a dollar. So every player that you might have the opportunity to train, if they're not willing to commit, they're not willing to do the work, they're not willing to do these things, to listen to, put the ego aside and say, you know what? I've got to be able to take what this guy's saying and apply it and then see where it gets me. If they're not willing to do that, well, chances are the results aren't going to come for them. And then chances are that reflects back on you and makes you look bad. Even though it might have nothing to do with you, it might be completely reliant on that player not being willing to do enough. So sometimes it becomes, do I even want to work with this player? Because this might hurt my reputation if they're not willing to be that player who is able to be coachable. Okay? And that's something to. To consider. You know, it's funny because, you know, every once in a while, I'll have a player who, like, lasts for a discount on a program or whatever, and, you know, back in, you know, a few months ago, like, every once in a while I'll get a. I get a DM like that. And sometimes, you know what, whatever, like, I'll, that's fine. I'll work something out. And that's a. Well and good. But here's the thing with that. In my own personal experience, a lot of times when I go to log in and see, like, oh, who's been logged into their account, who's been active in their account. A lot of times, and I would say even the majority of times the players who I may have given that discount to because just I got a DM about it, a lot of times those are players who aren't, like, they haven't logged in in two weeks. They haven't logged in in a month. They haven't. Like, those are players who, Who a lot of times end up not being quite as committed as the people who just kind of went with it. Kind of like, you know what, that's what it costs. So that's what. That's what it is. And usually, again, not always exceptions to it, but usually those players are the ones who are 100% committed. And typically those are going to be the players who I get the. The DMS from talking about, hey, coach, I've been doing this for two weeks and I just had a game and I did this, or I just had a pickup game and I was hitting this shot and it was. It was awesome. And I'm seeing progress and all that sort of stuff. Typically, those are the guys who are 100% invested, 100% committed, and help me to look better as a coach. Again, I'm only as good as the players who are willing to commit. And when those players are committed and they put the work in and they see those, those results, that's when they come back to me and say, hey, coach, I was. I've been doing this for two weeks, for a month and for two months. And like, this is what I've been seeing now. I've been hitting this shot more consistently. My handles are feeling better. All this sort of stuff, thank you so much for this and all that sort of stuff. And that just comes back to. That's as much a reflection on what I like, my program or whatever, that's as much on that as it is on that player because they're the ones who ultimately did the work. So it's always like, that's always my thing. Anytime I got a dm, like, man, shout out to you, because at the end of the day, listen, I love the primitive score system. I think it's great and I think that it hits a lot of skills players should have. But it's only as good as the player who does it, who commits to it, who stays consistent with it every single day, and who watches the 20 points per game blueprint and the Mental Compass Masterclass. And actually applies what I talk about in that those are the players who get the results. The players who. Those are the players who, even if they didn't use my programs are going to be successful anyway because they can 100% commit to something. So for me, the number one thing is like, I want players who are just willing to commit. They're gonna say, you know, I'm gonna put my head down. I'm gonna do this right, Coach, If I'm gonna go in with you, right? If I, if you're gonna, if I'm gonna go through your training, then I'm going to commit to that 100%. Okay? And those are the players who see the results. That has nothing to do with me. I can give the, the same exact program to two different players. One who is all about it, one who is self reliant, who's self motivated. And I can give it to one player who needs to be reminded to do things, who needs to, you know, who's not consistent. And they're gonna get wildly different results. And that one player who wasn't quite as committed, wasn't quite as into it, might say, oh, you know, he's terrible. Like the, this didn't help me at all. And that other player who is just about it, might have the complete opposite. Hey coach, I've seen this result and this has been crazy and all this sort of stuff. And it's the same exact thing, but it's just two different players. So great coaches are built by great players. And the best trainers are the ones who have the best players, the most committed players, the players who are bought in. The players who know that they know nothing. The players who listen and ask questions and understand that they have to sometimes just figure things out themselves. And ultimately the players who play the game, when they're given game, they don't just go in one ear, out the other. They don't just let it sit in their brain, they apply it. They take what they're, what they're taught, what they're told, what they see and, and they apply that. Those are the players who end up being the most successful in my experience, both in person, both as a, as a coach, and then also with the online stuff with, with the perimeter score system and elite ball handling, it's as much a reflection on me, it's even more so about what players do I have. Because they're the ones who put the work in, they're the ones who get the result. And that's ultimately what it comes down to when, when I talk about, you know, great players are the ones who make great coaches, not the other way around. Okay? So just like the coach must devote time and effort and energy to their players. It's the same way on the other side, okay? The, the players have to devote that effort, that commitment to what their coach asked them to do. And then when you have that mutual understanding of like, listen.