Get The Most Out Of Your Team Picture

You'll never get much of a chance to shoot if you
don't have good administrative support for your
team. If you are coaching at a school here's a
great tip for you. And if you are a player you can
suggest this to your coach.

ALWAYS have your athletic director and/or
principal in your team picture . Tell them several
days in advance to make sure their time is freed
up, but I guarantee they'll appreciate it and love
you.

After you get the picture back buy a nice frame,
put the picture in it, and have your team make a
big deal of going and giving it to the AD and
principal. I'll bet they put the pics up on their
office walls.

Coach Billy Gillispie, Head Basketball Coach at
Texas A&M University gave me this tip through
retired Texas Coach Duane Silver. He says last
year one coach he knows did this, and the lady
principal started crying.

After she calmed down enough she said in 30
years as a principal no one had ever asked her
before to be in the team picture. It meant the
world to her.

That's how to get the most out of your team
picture, and it emphasizes the "Power of We" to
your team. Besides it being good school politics,
it is also a nice subtle lesson in the value of
teamwork and honoring those who support you.

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. You can also build tremendous unity and
chemistry if your whole team feels they can shoot
the rock. Some will always excel more, but if your
least-skilled player is confident shooting don't you
think they'll work that much harder on the rest of
their game?

Coach Tom Nordland has designed the recently
published Swish 2 DVD to teach you not only a top
notch shooting stroke, but also how to teach
shooting to others. Catch Tom's vision today and
watch your team soar at:

http://www.deandelker.com/swish2.html

Make Every Shot Count

Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.

And You Thought You Had It Rough

At a Castro Valley high School in north California
recently a group of parents were in an uproar over
the girl's varsity basketball coach and demanded
her team be chosen this season by an impartial
six-person panel. But when the team roster was
posted last week none of the disgruntled parents'
daughters had made the team. Some would call
that karma or poetic justice.

Of course the parents think the panel was made
up of hand-picked stoolies of the coach, but an
ombudsman appointed by the school board who
observed practices and oversaw the whole
process gave the coach a big "thumbs up".

Even though the coach knew nobody on the panel
beforehand, the parents continue to insist a
conspiracy is underway, but the ex-principals and
coaches on the panel have decided the coach might
be a bit too direct at times, but that she'd done
nothing really wrong.

That's a sad story from the coach's standpoint, and
not all that uncommon. Parental meddling at some
schools is legendary, but I can't help but wonder
what would have happened if the parents had
simply helped their daughters become better
shooters.

Instead they tried to use the legal system. News
flash. You don't have a civil right to be on
a basketball team. Well maybe you do
California, I don't know.

If you want to avoid situations like this though
now's the time to get your son or daughter,
nephew or niece the expert help they need to
become a pinpoint shooter.

If your son or daughter is a novice I think Tom
Nordland's Swish 2 is the great place to start.
Otherwise I recommend Hal Wissel for shot
mechanics, and Stan Kellner for the mental
side of shooting.

See for yourself what best meet's your needs
today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/products.html

Shoot for the Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. If you can relate to the stress that California
coach must be under you'll want to take a deep
breath and relax.

Copyright 2006 Delker Enterprises, Inc.