Run to Win: The Mongoose System: Coaching Middle School & Youth Basketball - Softcover

Brock, Beau James; Kyler, Karen Recurt; Szekely, L. Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483408825 ISBN 13: 9781483408828

Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services, 2014

Synopsis

The Mongoose System is not only a possible way to coach middle school and youth basketball, but the optimum way to coach at this level! This book has been written to teach you how to coach the System to middle school and youth basketball teams. Other books on the System have been organized for college and high school level teams, and we wanted to provide the lessons we have happily learned to you for your kids at the middle school level. We have written this book for you. You picked this book up because no matter how much you already know about basketball, you know there is more to learn. If you are a parent or teacher just starting out in coaching, you have picked this up to begin to learn to coach. If you have already coached for 5 years, you may be looking for a new approach to the game. If you have coached 10 years or more, you know that the more you know about the game, the more there is to learn.

About this title

About the Author

Beau James Brock
Beau was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Slidell, Louisiana, and Apple Valley, Minnesota. He is blessed to have five children Katherine 22, Lauren 20, Travis 15, James 13, and Tommy 10.  He has coached boys and girls basketball, soccer and tennis, during different periods, over the last twenty years.  He is a full-time attorney currently in private practice. L. Thomas Szekely
Thomas is currently employed as Vice President of a national relocation company.  He has been a licensed CPA for the past fifteen years.  His volunteer efforts have landed him roles as Junior Achievement instructor and currently a position on the Board of Directors for the YMCA. He has participated in multiple sports throughout the years but today his main focus is on being an avid runner.  His love for children and sports is what brought him to coaching.  Over the past ten years, his attention has been on coaching girls' basketball, but recently has begun to coach boys as well.  He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and has resided in South Louisiana all of his life.  He has two wonderful daughters Katelyn 17 and Madison 14.
Karen Recurt Kyler
Karen was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Straight from high school, she went to LSU School of Dentistry for the Dental Assisting Program and continued working there in the Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Department for ten years and for an Endodontist (Root Canal Specialist) for an additional ten years. After marrying, she moved Baton Rouge in 1990, where she resides with her husband (an Orthodontist) and two daughters, Katelyn (19) and Kandace (14). Karen is now a part time receptionist (for the past 8 years) with Weight Watchers.

From the Back Cover

Run to win. Not mine, again, but St. Paul's from his letter to the Corinthians. Isn't everything in the Bible? At least that's what my Baptist grandma taught me, even though I was raised Catholic by my parents. And so, it gave me great comfort when I was watching (and later made my teams watch) the NFL Films classic video "Lombardi" originally aired in 1968. In it, Coach Lombardi reached into the Bible for inspiration for the Packers during a critical stretch of his, what now seems to have been fated by someone above, three consecutive NFL Championship run. Run to win.
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Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.
1 Corinthians 9:24
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By playing the Mongoose System in the middle school and youth levels, your team will be dictating the pace of the game and your team will feel in more in control whereas your opponents will feel hurried, anxious and disorganized. It does create an "organized chaos" on the floor to your advantage when your players continue to move.
Lightning warfare isn't a new concept. It's not a 20th century concept, just ask the Mongols. But in basketball, this lightning warfare allows for maximum dividends in several areas of the game. First, it deprives your opponents the chance to set up a structured offense. By trapping all the way down the court, you force your opponents to find alternative methods for advancing the ball up the court and then attack your basket from different launch points which only add to their confusion.

The Mongoose System emphasizes athleticism, but you don't need ten "Amazons" or ten Presidential Fitness Award winners to be successful. You need eight to ten, with ten being the best number (with 5 or 6 minute stopped time quarters at this level) young people who want to compete. You need players who want to part of something bigger than themselves, and are willing to play with reckless abandon. It emphasizes team "dance," in that, off-ball movement becomes more important than on-ball, and everyone is moving and participating on every play during the minute they are on the court. They must not stop moving as the energy they exert serves to drain your opponents as none of it is wasted motion.

Finally, the Mongoose System emphasizes personal courage and commitment regardless of size and strength. Your players are required to believe in themselves and their teammates in order for this to work and while on the court on offense they will, to paraphrase Coach Wooden, be quick to the spot, but don't hurry the shot. On defense, they will assume the role of whirling dervishes, and consume the spirit of your opponents and deny them the will to fight.

From the Inside Flap

Your team can achieve championships in tournaments and leagues by using the Mongoose System & playing everyone on the team. There is no greater feeling in sports when all members on the squad contribute with their gifts to achieve a title. Coach Lombardi said, "the measure of a person is what he or she does with the gifts and talents they have." We are giving each player on your team the chance to maximize the gifts they bring to your team's spirit and promise when you choose to employ the Mongoose System. Are you ready to win your next championship? We think you are!
This book has been written to teach you how to coach the System to middle school and youth basketball teams. Other books on the System have been organized for college and high school level teams, and we wanted to provide the lessons we have happily learned to you for your kids at the middle school level. We have written this book for you. You picked this book up because no matter how much you already know about basketball, you know there is more to learn. If you are a parent or teacher just starting out in coaching, you have picked this up to begin to learn to coach. If you have already coached for 5 years, you may be looking for a new approach to the game. If you have coached 10 years or more, you know that the more you know about the game, the more there is to learn.
In any case, the opportunity to coach young men and women is the opportunity, to not only teach them how the game is played, but how the game itself teaches life lessons which are portable skills they can and will use for the rest of their lives. In the over 30 years of combined coaching among us, we have found nothing "new under the sun", but in the quest for providing those in our charge with the best possible opportunity to learn, compete and win, we have developed our philosophy we call, the Mongoose System.
The modern System offense was made famous by Paul Westhead and LMU and then used successfully for years at Grinnell College, in Iowa, and other schools. We combine this non-stop attacking style of play with the life lessons made famous by John Wooden and his Pyramid of Success as the core of our teaching. We will present the Mongoose System in components and you can learn and then teach it in stages so as to not overwhelm your players. In many ways, the Mongoose System is designed to be a "Lombardi-esque" type of game philosophy which encourages fundamentals first, execution second, and grit third. Your players, no matter their base ability, will improve using this philosophy and will only love the game, even more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1483408825
• ISBN 13: 9781483408828
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136