Husband - Father - Head Basketball Coach at Palmetto Ridge HS - Where CHAMPIONS play! 🏆 🏆 🏆🏆 🏆

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For the FOURTH year in a row, the Palmetto Ridge Bears are your 6A-12 CHAMPIONS!!! It was a total TEAM EFFORT! 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆
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Someone had time to prepare for this trap and this is how they tried to break it?
The 1-2-2 half court trap... -Force transition teams to SLOW DOWN -Disrupt the rhythm of your opponent -Look for opportunistic traps (More ⬇️)
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Successful people are relentless.
Mike Brown shares a simple but powerful definition of winning in life. "Even if you don't have the quote unquote ultimate success that you think you deserve - if you get knocked down in life and you're able to get back up and keep fighting - that's a fricking win." "Most of our guys have probably had to go through that. But I think most people in the world have to go through it." Success isn't always the result - sometimes it's just refusing to stay down. It's choosing to endure, get back up, and keep fighting. Successful people are relentless. (🎥SNY )
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Arkansas | Box Lob
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BALOGUN!!!
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Palmetto Ridge will take on the IMG Academy National Team this coming season at IMG Academy on January 26!
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Liberty | Elbow Curl
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We are excited to announce that we will be traveling on January 8 to take on the 7A state runner-ups, Sarasota HS and @Coach_bjivey, this coming season! Iron sharpens iron!
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Christopher Fowler shares basketball small-sided games for player development. 0:00 Blind 1v1 4:15 Short Roll 3v3 11:20 Help & Rotate 3v3 14:52 Wing Drive 3v3 19:55 Player Development Plan Form 🎥youtu.be/bp38CD4gjgw
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Textbook shell D right here and why you do it every practice

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We are looking to add some away games, preferably on Fridays or Saturdays. We are willing to travel as far north as Tampa area, as far east as Miami/Fort Lauderdale area. Let me know!
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It won’t be easy, and it won’t be for everyone, but those that make it will be champions.
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Duke’s Coach Jon Scheyer and staff developing decision-making skills via 1v1 and small-sided games. Check it out… Breakdown and video: aquicktimeout.substack.com/p…
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“Simple” Superpower for Guards: Deliver the ball on TIME on TARGET. ❇️ When advancing the ball up the court—kick ahead ❇️ To shooters coming off screens. ❇️ On Ball Screen Reads That extra dribble KILLS a lot of guards. A split second separates GREAT from MEDIOCRE
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Let’s gooo!! Welcome home 🐻 🐻
2029 G Corban Copeland and 2030 G Blaise Copeland have transferred from Donahue Catholic to Palmetto Ridge.
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I love the high to low game because with the ball centered, there is no help side
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Let’s goooo!! 🐻 🏀
Left one side of the city to run the other one 🖤💚
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Hard truth: Some parents don’t mean to hurt their child’s growth…But they do. When we remove struggle, chase labels, or coach from the stands, we take away the lessons sports are meant to teach. Support > Control Which one do you see most right now?
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Facts. Do things the right way while remaining a student of the game and eventually good things will happen.
Coach K was 38-47 his first 3 years at Duke & 13-29 in the ACC Jay Wright was 52-46 his first 3 years at Villanova & 21-27 in the Big East Great things take time. You need to be process driven, not results driven A proper foundation is much more important than instant success
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If you look at the $10K/year as an investment with an expected return, you’re delirious. If you look at it as spending time with your kid doing something you both love, it’s money well-spent.
I talked a dad who told me he spent $10k a year on travel baseball between tourneys, travel, and gear for his son. He got a partial scholarship to D-2 school. If he had put the $10k in a mutual fund each year, he would have had about $190,000. The scholarship was $5k a year.
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We might not put five scorers on the floor but you can bet we put five WINNERS out there
A good high school basketball team doesn't need 5 scorers. It needs a floor general, a lockdown defender, and somebody who knows their job is to rebound everything in sight. Roles win games. Superstars are built out of teams that commit to those roles.
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