Todd Lickliter- Foundations of Butler Basketball

• • Have a best coaching friend at another level.
•  Share ideas with
• Give and take
• Not competing against each other
• What they look for in recruits.
•  We are in the people business, recruit good people (Character)
•  Vision (how involved are they when not in the game)
•  Up or down 20, how are they playing
•  Desire to win
•  Skill
•  Our guys enjoyed the success of their teammates.
•  Hold each other accountable not just patting each other on the back saying its ok
•  Sacrifice for others
•  Always exam yourself first.
•  Has players read QBQ book before each season
•  1 page write up about the book
•  Core Values of the program
•  Each player signs the core value contract before each season
•  Toughness is doing what is right.
•  We don’t make them run as a punishment
•  Fun is Working Together to Achieve (Locker Room sign)
•  Stay with it even when things are tough because in the end it will work itself out or you have the self satisfaction that your stuck to your values
•  For players to get their gear @ start of season
•  Must do some type of community service
•  System
•  Don’t care about temp, will play anyway
•  Offense (mental discipline) = Get the shot we want when we want
•  New players = 4 stages
•  Unconscious & Incompetent = they don’t know that they don’t know
•  Conscious & Incompetent = they know they don’t know
•  Conscious & Competent = they know, but they don’t flow (robot)
•  Unconscious & Competent = Everything flows naturally – The best players
•  Ordinary guys doing ordinary things, but do them extremely well
•  Body adapts to stress
•  Jig Saw Puzzle
•  Put team together piece by piece
•  Add to the puzzle each day
•  Can’t afford to start over ¼ , ½ , ¾ way into season
•  Offensively
•  Defense breaks down on rotations = Make D rotate
•  Get inside the defense = will cause rotations
•  Post Play = Must have a post that demands double teams
•  Set ball screens
• Ball Handler = you are the eyes of the receiver
•  Pass with precision
•  Zone
•  We don’t attack gaps
•  Know who is guarding you
•  Take him away from his home base
•  Fill a spot, vacate that spot, fill it again
•  Defensively
•  If we don’t turn it over then we aren’t on defense as much
•  Guard 36% of the court
•  Bent limbs = athletic stance
•  Multi task unless on the ball
•  Steady Diet on defense
•  Keep them off balance