Frank Martin: “Coaching Philosophies to Developing Toughness in Your Players to Win on the Court and in Life” 2020 Virtual Coaches Clinic Notes | Coach Tim Respass

Philosophy Notes –

• Recruit to build the culture, but the staff develops their culture.
  • Coaches voice grows it
  • Players can help add to it, once they buy in
  • Believe in it, live by it, and fight for it

• Once the game starts you have a duty to fight to win.

• 4 Steps to developing your culture
  • Honesty
  • Trust
  • Loyalty
  • Love
    • This is when you become a Family

• 3 Golden Rules
  1. Be on time
  2. Be prepared, mentally and physically
  3. Give me what you got

• It is a mental game, always have to adjust.
  • The coaches, players, and team
  • More structure to the younger players
    • Giving options to younger players is setting them up to fail

• Times and culture have changed over time.

• Adapt to comprehend their environment.

• Help teach student athletes how to use social media.
  • It is the duty of the coaches to help guide their players

• Hold kids accountable.

• No failures or excuses, hold players accountable in drills. Don’t let them out until they do it. 

• Be yourself, hold yourself to a standard and don’t give up on it.
  • Do your work to the best of your ability, daily

• Communicate with your team on a daily basis.

• It is a privilege to coach any team, not a right.

• 2 questions to ask the parents of your players
  1. Do you support your kid?
  2. Do you support this team?
     • In basketball, you have to support the team over the child

Defense Notes –

• Play them out of the middle on defense, so they don’t open up hips.
  • Middle of your backside should always be pointed towards the glass
• Get defenders to hold tennis balls in drills, to eliminate hand checking.
  • If they open their hand to check, they will drop the ball

Other Notes –

• We are all judged publicly in this business.
• Great players are better conditioned then good players.

Quote (when speaking about accountability): “Feet to the fire.”

Thoughts – Coach Martin was all about accountability and adaptability. He likes to hold players accountable and see them push through the tough situations. His quote, “feet to the fire”, is all about players standing their ground and figuring things out. There was a moment that he talked about student- athletes are too quick to transfer nowadays because situations were tough, and that is something I agree with. Coach Martin was also very big on adaptability in himself and his coaches, not just his players. I think that is very important because as the times change, so does the mind of the student athlete.