Carmen and Cory’s dad. Kate’s husband. Head Men's Basketball Coach @WheelingU54. Lifelong Learner. WVU '08.
Wheeling, WV
Joined March 2009
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Here’s a great example of how flipping ballscreens can create confusion. (Teaching breakdown in the comments)
Thanks for sending me the clip @CRich4
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Try rescreening, or “twisting”, after a dribble handoff to get easy passes to the roller in your ballscreens.
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John Beilein goes into the WVU Sports Hall of Fame this weekend. His run at WVU was storybook, and the Elite 8 run in 2005 is one of the greatest stretches in Mountaineer history.
This was one of my favorite recruiting videos I ever made for WVU—it quickly became a video people just wanted to watch to relive that incredible team. There was no YouTube at the time, so I'd burn DVDs and hand them out.
As the teams exploded onto the national scene during the Big East and NCAA tournaments, newspapers were still the pulse of the sports world. I wanted to capture that spotlight in the edit. I had Tony Caridi bring me back physical New York newspapers from the Big East run, and tracked down others along the way to weave into the piece.
At the Wake Forest game in Cleveland, LeBron James sat nearby. He was in his early years with the Cavs and knew Mike Gansey from their high school basketball days in the Cleveland area. Mike’s performance that night was legendary. Fittingly, both LeBron and Gansey are now with the 76ers.
On a personal note, Coach Beilein has remained a true friend and mentor in my own coaching journey. He has given me invaluable advice that only a coach who has seen it all can offer—shaping my own philosophy on how to build a genuinely connected team.
Watching the recent run by @WVUBaseball brought all of this right back. It was that same kind of deeply connected team that brought people together in an emotional way and made Mountaineer fans incredibly proud.
Fox Sports put it best: “The 2004-05 Mountaineers were easy to fall in love with and difficult to let go of.”
@JohnBeilein @TonyCaridi @KPittsnogle
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What animal does your teammate remind you of? 🐹🐿️🦁
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Mike Macdonald explains why not playing in the NFL actually helped him become a better coach, and says it forced him to lead with honesty instead of pretending he had all the answers
“Because it’s like, who am I going to kid here? I can’t do what you guys do. And so I think that’s where it starts. And then you’re a young coach, so it’s also an acknowledgement to say, ‘Hey, look, I feel very strongly about some things. There’s a lot of things I also acknowledge I don’t know yet because we haven’t experienced these things, and I don’t have the skins on the wall to say, “Look, I know what’s going on here.”’
“I believe I know what it takes, and I’m going to try to create a compelling vision that we want to create, and a pathway and principles that we can go by to get there. But if we really believe in this culture of growth and 12 is one, well, I’m in this thing and our coaches are in this thing with our players.
“There’s coaches in our league and coaches in history that, deservedly so, come in and say, ‘Hey, look, this is how we’re going to do business. Here’s your book. We’re going to go to page July, August, whatever, and this is what we do, this is how we do business, and this is what’s going to win.’ And it’s worked like that. But if I did that, that wouldn’t be authentic.
“So my thing is, ‘Hey, look, I’m learning with you guys in this journey.’ It’s more fun that way, and it takes the edge off. We’re going to give it everything we have because we decided we’re going to try to do it this way. If we don’t get the results we wanted, let’s go back and see what we can improve on process-wise to yield better results.
“And you just keep doing that. That’s an honest process. But you’ve got to keep it real with them. If we fall short, which we’ve done plenty of times from the coaching staff, or if there are things that aren’t up to the vision and the standard of how we said we were going to be, we’ve got to be the first ones to show that we’re willing to grow from that because that’s what you expect from your players.”
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This is an amazing answer by @bryceharper3. Lot of perspective for parents and young athletes.
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Ben McCollum shares what it feels like to be around first-place people and a first-place culture.
"I went to Northwest Missouri State, and my first practice with Steve Tapmeyer - best coach I've ever been around - I sat there and I'm like, 'This is what first place feels like. This is what a first-place culture feels like. This is what first-place people feel like.'"
That was the wake-up call. He realized what first-place people have:
"They've got an extreme work ethic. They've got an edge to 'em that other people don't - a competitive spirit."
Then he quoted John Thompson:
"You can tame a fool a lot quicker than you can resurrect a corpse...We want guys with a little edge to 'em."
You can coach skills, but you can't coach competitive spirit. You don't want to consistently coach their effort and attitude.
The last thing they look for: Energy givers.
"Over the years, we found that guys that are moody don't make it in our program."
"If you're moody, if you have low energy, if you suck the life out of the building - you don't make it."
Talent isn't enough. Your energy matters. Your attitude matters.
Successful people have a competitive edge, they bring energy, and they look to consistently get better.
They raise the standard through what they do.
(🎥 Watts Happening Podcast)
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Scherzer and Verlander retiring the same week is the baseball version of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson dying on July 4th for guys my age.
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That's our manager.
ALT TEXT: Boston Red Sox Our Manager Chad Tracy IMAGE: Graphic announcing Chad Tracy as the Manager of the Boston Red Sox. The word “Interim” is scratched out in black pen and white text reading “Our Manager” is layered under a photo of Tracy on field at Fenway Park. Tracy is wearing a red Red Sox short sleeve and a navy Boston hat.
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Kirby Smart believes great leaders of any kind must accept 3 costs:
1. Making hard decisions that negatively impact people you care about
2. Being disliked despite attempts to do the best for the most
3. You'll be misunderstood
~ via @TheDaily_Coach
thedaily.coach/p/3-costs-lea…
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The full speech from Willson Contreras to the team. Electric stuff. Clearly the guy who leads this entire group.
Of course he had to throw a trash barrel lol.
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🍕We asked the guys whether they prefer thin crust or deep dish pizza. Here is what they had to say.
#TheWheelingWay | #WheelU
Elite Camp Session I on deck Sunday afternoon. Our roster has several former participants from this camp over the years. This is your BEST chance to be evaluated.
Come see what a day in the life of a Cardinal is like!
🚨WHEELING UNIVERSITY ELITE CAMP
2 Sessions
Session I September 20 2-5 PM
Session II October 4 2-5 PM
Sign up Here: wheelingmensbasketball.total…
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