CENTAUR SEASONS on HoopsU.com recently unveiled a never-before-heard nearly two-hour audio interview with UCLA basketball coaching legend John Wooden. Conducted in 1991, my conversation with the coach covered a lot of territory. So here only on HoopsU.com is a handy playbook to get you straight to the sections of the interview where Coach Wooden offered specific coaching tips and observations from his long career in basketball. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone …
PART TWO (5:16): Talent matters, but with any team it’s about maximizing player potential.
PART THREE (2:49): Dealing with the fans in the stands.
PART SEVEN (2:41): How JohnWooden worked every offseason to become a better coach.
(Coach Wooden’s tips continue below)
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“CENTAUR SEASONS: A GUIDE TO THE JOHN WOODEN INTERVIEW” is a HoopsU.com exclusive. CENTAUR SEASONS is a “memory blog” of the basketball beginnings of the half-good, half-bad, all-new Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales Centaurs in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, where Steve McKee played on four of the school’s first seven teams, was MVP senior year and in 1974 graduated in the sixth class.
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PART EIGHT (7:05): Fighting complacency.
PART NINE (8:41): In a free-wheeling discussion, Coach Wooden talks about keeping players focused on the team, keeping the team on an even keel, and his famous “Pyramid of Success.”
PART TWELVE (3:16): More on how to keep individual players focused on the team. Liking your players (or not!)
PART FIFTEEN (7:22): Deep in, very good stuff on leadership and building a program.
PART NINETEEN (5:29): TEAM COMES FIRST!
PART TWENTY (3:20): The story of why he once quit his high school team, and the coaching lesson he took from it.
PART TWENTY-THREE (7:28): Coach for the next game, because that game is your next big game.
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