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Every coaching job looks easy when you are the one not doing it.
Dip Metress
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Dip Metress
@DipMetress
Head Men's Basketball Coach at Augusta University Husband to Heather and Dad to Elizabeth
Joined November 2018
- Basketball IQ is an underestimated and underrated skill.
- Point guards need to be leaders, be able to accept hard coaching, and cannot have a reckless style of play.
- It is no secret that coaching gets more difficult each year as society loses its grip on reality.
- After having the privilege of watching this 4-time Olympian and future Hall of Famer go through multiple shooting workouts, it reinforced that your feet need to work for you, not against you to become an elite shooter.
- The best coaches are not the ones that have mastered the X’s and O’s, they are the ones that have the best relationships with their players.
- After watching 20 high school games since Santa Claus came, why are high school refs infatuated with having the players shirt tucked in and why do kids think they will get away with it?
- Calipari after loss said, “Toughness doesn’t mean pushing and shoving. Toughness means before the catch I am working. I will get open because I am tougher than the guy guarding me.”
- Being a leader is an all-time position; being a captain is walking to half-court for 30 seconds.
- For all those basketball advisors who say “you can always go D2 or D3,” you should have sat court-side last night for our game vs Emory. It’s a little harder than it looks.
- Sometimes it is not about X’s and O’s, it’s about toughness, competitiveness, and having a championship mentality.
- When your best player is your hardest worker AND the best teammate you have, you have a chance to have a special season.
- Successful coaches have a husband, wife or another significant other that NEVER asks why do you have to go to the gym. Thanks Heather.
