Welcome to the 90th edition of the Coach’s Corner Round Table on the Hoop Heads Podcast. Each episode of the Coach’s Corner Round Table will feature our All-Star lineup of guests answering a single basketball question. A new Coach’s Corner Round Table will drop around the 15th of each month.

June’s Round Table question is: What's the most valuable coaching lesson you've learned from someone who wasn't a basketball coach?

Our Coaching Lineup this month:

• Jerry Buckley – Bishop Kenny (FL) High School
• Dave Hixon – Amherst College
• Bob Krizancic – Mentor (OH) High
• Tom McKeown – Author of “This is Panther Country”
• Don Showalter - USA Basketball
• John Shulman – University of Central Arkansas

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Hello and welcome to the 90th edition of the Coach's Corner Roundtable on the Hoop Heads Podcast.

Each episode of the Coach's Corner Roundtable will feature our all star lineup of guests answering a single basketball question.

A new Coach's Corner Roundtable will drop around the 15th of each month.

June's Roundtable question is what's the most valuable coaching lesson you've learned from someone who wasn't a basketball coach?

Our coaching lineup this month includes Jerry Buckley from Bishop Kenney High School, Dave Hickson, Basketball hall of Famer from Amherst College, Bob Krasancik from Menor High School, Tom McEwen, author of this is Panther Country, Don Showalter from USA Basketball, and John Shulman from the University of Central Arkansas.

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Give with Hoops Foreign let's hear from our panel about the most valuable coaching lesson they've learned from someone who wasn't a basketball coach.

Jerry Buckley, Bishop Kenny High School, Jacksonville, Florida.

This is Jerry Buckley answering this month's question.

I would say the most valuable coaching lesson I've learned from someone who wasn't a basketball coach is probably from my wife.

And she always, she's always good at reminding me that if I'm frustrated with a particular player or a team, typically that they're not messing up on purpose, they're not missing a shot on purpose or whatever the case is.

And she's always good at reminding me, you know, we have great kids on our team in our program and they're giving great effort and sometimes they are going to make mistakes.

So I think that's always a good perspective from somebody who's not deeply involved in it every day that you know the shots are going to be missed, things are going to be done wrong, and the kids are giving great effort and that's going to be the most important thing and there are going to be mistakes in it.

So it's always a good reminder from somebody at home.

Dave Hickson, Basketball hall of Famer from Amherst College.

Hi, Hoop Heads Dave Hickson here.

I've taken a little bit of a break, but I'm back and I found a piece of information advice that I think is a little different than what most people would take.

But I found it to be very valuable and enjoyed it very much.

And when my kids were younger, they were like right in the middle of the Lion King and I love watching the Lion King and just happened to steal from it.

Rafiki, one of my favorite people.

And Rafiki, if you remember, Rafiki is speaking to Simba and he, they're having a discussion about going back and Rafiki whacks him over the head with a stick and he goes, oh, yes, the past can hurt, but the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.

And I actually played that to my team when we were struggling a bit.

I've passed it on and I know that at least three of my assistants have taken it with them.

It's a great little message about things that we need to learn from in the past as opposed to avoiding or running from it.

And so it's a great little quote if you play.

It does a much better job than I do, but it's really cool.

The Lion King Rafiki reflecting on the past, moving on from it, changing in it.

Okay, great to talk to y'.

All.

Bob Krasancik, Mentor High School Mentor, Ohio.

Coach K. Minter, High School Best advice I ever got was probably two weeks before the first game I ever coached, and a really, really smart person told me to eliminate, cut any person, any player that did not have the work ethic needed to succeed or had the mentality and the vision that our program was going into.

Very first year, I cut 10 out of 12 seniors because their work ethic wasn't there.

And after Game two, I booted my best player who came back and had a phenomenal senior year.

That was the best thing because it set the mentality and the vision for my years at Girard and in my career.

So great, great advice.

I would give that to anybody.

It wasn't my book, but I would advise you to just keep the people on board that are all in and your philosophy.

Tom McKeown, the author of this Is Panther country.

Hello, this is Tom McEwen, author of this Is Panther country, about the first ever Long island basketball championship, and I'm answering the hoops head pod roundtable 90 monthly question.

What's the most valuable coaching lesson you've learned from someone who wasn't a basketball coach?

Well, actually, the most applicable lesson came after I left school in sports.

It was in my first sales training out of college, and it basically talked about what are the three keys to success?

And they are number one, to show up, number two, to show up on time, and number three, to show up ready to play.

The first one, just to show up is a classic example.

You can't do things when you're not there.

Always take advantage of being in person if you can, if it's business, and don't use flimsy excuses to not go to practice or go to class.

Number two, show up on time.

This is another one where you don't want to become one of those people who just can't get their act together and are always showing up 10 to 15 minutes late.

It ruins your credibility.

You miss valuable information, and it never sits in well with a teacher, a coach or a prospect.

And then number three, probably the most important is show up ready to play when you've done the first two and you're there at practice or you're in class or you're with a client.

The important thing is to have your information ready, have practiced in the off season, be in condition, be ready to if you're sitting on the bench and you've been on the bench for three quarters, doesn't matter.

When the coach needs you to play both mentally and physically, be ready to get in that game and contribute.

So that is my answer to this month's question.

Once again, this is Tom McEwen, author of this Is Panther Country.

Thank you.

Don Showalter, USA Basketball.

Don Showolder here from USA Basketball.

This month's topic is what are some things that you remember or that have influenced your life from someone who's not a basketball coach?

I go back to a high school science teacher who I got along with really well and was probably an influence for me going, pursuing biology and teaching biology for many years.

But he always said there are three words that will determine your fate in life.

And the first one was choices.

The second one was decisions and the third one was consequences.

And so I remember that obviously for many, many years.

And it came back every time I think about that.

There are certain choices and decisions that I made that have some good consequences and some I had the bad consequences.

But those three words have stuck with me throughout my career.

Thank you.

John Shulman from the University of Central Arkansas.

This is John Shulman, head coach at the University of Central Arkansas.

And this month's question is a good one.

What's the most valuable coaching lesson you've learned from someone who wasn't a basketball coach?

Pretty easy.

It's a little bit of a story, so I'll start quick.

I was out of coaching.

I just finished a nine year stretch at Chattanooga where I thought life revolved around me and life revolved around our program and life revolved around if we wouldn't lost a game, started working with some business guys and I was still in bitter mode.

Not better mode, but bitter mode.

And we were hanging out with a bunch of high level business guys in Chattanooga and Chattanooga had just, UTC had just gotten beat the night before and like I said, I was in bitter mode and I was happy about it.

And I asked all these high level business guys, very important guys in Chattanoogas and I said, how about that Chattanooga game?

Can you believe Chattanooga last night?

And to the last one of them, they looked at me puzzled and went, what about them?

I said, well, they got beat last night at home.

They turned around and went oh okay and moved on with their day.

Very valuable coaching lesson there.

It ain't about us.

It's about helping the kids.

It's about you think everybody cares that you lost on a Tuesday night or Thursday.

Like everybody's got their own issues.

So if everyone has their own issues and doesn't really care about what you're doing, why don't you just focus on your kids and trying to help them achieve their dreams?

So you got to figure out, is this about your goals, my goals or my purpose?

Trying to find your purpose is way more important than your goals.

And so those guys taught me at that moment that this was not about my goals.

It needs to be about my purpose.

And from that moment on we've won a lot of games and accidentally and hopefully changed a lot of lives on purpose and life's been a lot better.

So I would think about this lesson and that the world don't revolve around me and our basketball program at the University of Central Arkansas.

There's way more important things in the world going on than that.

But it is important what we do, not just the winning.

It's important that we're hopefully helping impact kids lives.

That should be our purpose.

Hope this helps.

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