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The Lesson

By Scott Olson / June 5, 2019 / Comments Off on The Lesson

“The Lesson”   “Your guys didn’t look ready to play”. This comment came many years ago from the successful veteran coach, Steve Sandholm, after his state-ranked Knoxville Blue Bullet basketball team had just got done drubbing my Orion squad by 17 points. It wasn’t even that close. I didn’t take this comment as a dig…

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Here Are the Keys

By Scott Olson / January 23, 2019 / Comments Off on Here Are the Keys

There has been much discussion on the role of the coach these days. What style, old school or new? Disciplinarian or a player’s coach? By the “gut” or by the numbers? A recent Alan Stein Jr. post (he is an ​excellent​ follow) that I had read focused in on the time when Golden State Warriors…

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