Building a Program Series: Excuses and Body Language

by Blitz Basketball Systems

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Lesson #9 of the Building a Program Series - Excuses and Body Language

This lesson is one of ten in our Building a Program series. This series focuses on a combination of off-court and on-court ideas that can take your program to the next level or build it from the ground up. These ideas have been built through 25 years of running a highly successful high school basketball program.

Each course in this series is a 2,000 word article that includes highly specific examples and ideas that can help you build your program. These writings are easy to read and are downloadable PDFs, so you can always save them. 

Here is a short excerpt from this lesson, titled Excuses and Body Language

The varsity players realized quickly that making excuses would lead to a stoppage of practice and a very brief running session. Here are a few examples of the types of excuses we typically encountered early in a season:

“I got picked.” - after giving up an open shot 
“It slipped.” - after badly missing a shot
“____________ wasn’t where he was supposed to be.” - after messing up execution of a play
“Where was my help?” - after getting beaten off the dribble
“Nobody is moving.” - after over-dribbling or turning the ball over

Unless you are a first-time coach, you’ve heard these excuses and many more."

This course is all about the power of eliminating excuses and poor body language within your program!

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