New Season to Come

First, I realize that we are no longer the 5th grade travel team, and I'm not sure if I can change the title. Second, congratulations to the players selected for this year's team. We are confident that you will have fun, learn a lot about basketball, and have success.

General rules:

• One, two, three. Family, school, basketball. We expect you to concentrate while you are on the court, but family and school take primacy.
• Communications. If you have other obligations, please let us know. 
• Expectations: Play hard, play smart, play together, have fun. 
• Bring red and white shirts to practice for scrimmage purposes.

Goals:

• We're here to help you develop as basketball players and individuals. You are role models and many of you will be leaders as you move forward in your lives. We expect you to learn to take responsibility for your actions. 
• We want you to enjoy and to learn the ins and outs of basketball, to have a comprehensive understanding of what we do and why. You won't have to learn overnight. The inventor of basketball remarked, "Basketball is an easy game to learn, and a difficult one to master."
• I would like you all to have the ability to coach players by the time you've finished high school. 
• We expect you to reflect our coaching philosophy: team play, aggressiveness, and toughness. Success breeds confidence, and confidence breeds success.
• Great players are great because of what they do for the team. They make the players and the people around them better; they know how to win and stop up in the big moments. No bad teammate is ever a great player. 

Coaches don't make great players. Great players make coaches successful. Every player who becomes highly skilled does so because they develop the individual skills, athleticism, conditioning, and team spirit that great players show. We can help you but we can't help you as much as you can help yourselves by practicing.