Steve D'Agostino

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Finding Peak with Ryan Hanley · Building Resilient Kids: The Real Game of Youth Sports · 25 Nov 2024 podcast

We're like, yo, you're going to lose. It's going to be messy, but you've got to figure out a way to get through it. And so that inherently putting them through more adversity and everything that they do, then they tend to start figuring out, okay, you know, I haven't beaten this shooting drill, you know, seven days in a row. And then on the eighth day, they get it. Boom, you did it, you know?

So we put that into all of our development stuff.

Yeah, I think it's it depends on the kid. Right. And really how, you know, opposed to contact and all that they are, you know, but we throw them right to the fire. I mean, most of the time there's no especially when they're in eighth, ninth grade, younger kids. Yeah. OK, you ease them into it.

But most of our drills are, you know, when we're doing, let's just say like finishing drills, which is like layups around the basket and stuff. We'll work on some like on air, meaning it's just like reps one on zero. But most of them are live. They're one on one. It's a defender pushing you out. It's a rebounding drill where, again, two guys or two girls are pushing against each other.

And so the more they're exposed to that contact, the more comfortable they get in it. But you can't talk your way through that. You have to experience it. That's my biggest thing, too, with like...

with youth kids and high school kids and all that right I always hear coach like well I told them yeah but when you were a kid you didn't listen to any adults you learned from experience right and so yeah as coaches we want to keep telling them and telling them and so they're hearing the same things over and over again so that once they do experience they're like oh crap that's what he was talking about they don't just learn by hey you got to be more physical

No, throw them in a physical drill, be physical, get beat up for two, three, four, five days, and then you figure out how to be comfortable with it, you know? So we throw them right to the fire. It's the only way.

People think it's like such a good thing for their kid to be the best player in middle school. And I would almost argue that it's not, you know, that you're better off having them like not be the best player and be chasing because that best player can be complacent. And so like, how do you fight complacency? I think the kid has to constantly be challenged.

I think that they have to not only play in a space where, OK, they can go be the best player and kill because they are the best player, but then go play against older kids, too, where they get beat up a little bit and they're not the best player. And so I. It's hard. And again, the kid's going to lead the way.

And so a lot of these kids, when they're in middle school and they're the best player, in middle school, you don't even know what hard work is. And so you're just talented. And so when you get to high school, some of these kids, they're not that personality where they're going to put in the extra work, especially as others keep catching up to them.

And so what you're trying to develop, again, is that competitive competitiveness, the resilience and then that work ethic. Right. And that comes from the people that you have around them and and the perspective that they have. And I think that's where I mean, there's in our area, Ryan, this is crazy. I did it with my camera guy the other day.

There's at least 16 other trainers, player development coaches that do like workouts and stuff. Dude, I'm all for it. There's enough kids. I don't care. But a lot of times, yeah, you're going to work out with these people, but now you're listening to them too. And so if you're not hearing the right things, then your mindset when you go back to your high school team is going to be off.

Your mindset on how the world actually works, the world of basketball, whatever sport, is going to be warped. And I think that's what ends up happening is... Not only do the players have like, they don't really have clarity on how the, you know, basketball. These kids, when they're freshmen, are like, well, offers, offers.

Dude, unless you're a top 100 player, you're not getting a scholarship offer in freshmen. Colleges aren't recruiting freshmen and sophomores unless you're the best player in the country. Right. And so but they're hearing that and that's what they're focused on. And the parent gets hyper focused and they get more stress. And it's that whole snowball, you know.

And so I think it's it's like I said before, like it's it's not only the training, it's the perspective. You have to have somebody that's giving you the right information, because if you don't have the right information, you're going down the wrong path.

The expectation of the division one college basketball is so blown out of proportion that people don't even know what they want. Meaning, if you're good enough, where you play in college is a byproduct of how well you do in high school when you're a junior and a senior, whether it's high school or AAU, right? And so the focus now is, well, we got to do this to go to college and that.

No, you have to try and be, if you're into it, the best high school player that you can be. And guess what? There's not many players that should be playing in college that weren't good high school players. Because when you're in high school, if you're the best player, it's going to show that you're the best player, right?

And so we have this expectation from when they're younger, it's like Division I, Division II, Division III, college. And you're sitting there and you're like, why not just try to be the best high school player you can be and develop all these life skills? And then if your talent raises and you're productive, all that other stuff is going to come.

The second part would be, so I'm a junior national team coach with USA Basketball. And so there's like 15 or 16 of us. And during COVID, we had all these Zooms. And one of them was with a Harvard professor. And she was saying how they've been doing like a study on student athletes at the college level. And I know the number was over 60%.

I want to say it was like 70% of the student athletes had some form of anxiety and depression. And for those people that have played college basketball or college sports, it's hard. It's really hard. And guess what? You're not going to be happy. You're not going to be happy most of the time.

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