Edward is the Founder of CourtSessions Basketball Academy, is a Director at Point Guard College, a national lecturer on Coaching Coaches, and trains basketball players ranging from middle school to the NBA

Edward talks about his experience being a coach for coaches, learning through discovery, and shares stories from his experience working with young athletes and NBA talents

Show Notes:

4:50 - Coaching coaches 10:00 - Managing confidence and ego 10:20 - Keep it moving (Kobe) 13:25 - Balancing positivity and discipline 15:30 - Learning through discovery/coaching through questions 20:45 - Building mental toughness 29:55 - Mentors (MJ story from Tex Winters) 36:00 - Ed's introduction to working with NBA players, a new approach to the game 42:00 - Building relationships with players 44:00 - Setting parameters for teaching 51:30 - Ed's 3 most important qualities of a Coach/Teacher

Quotes:

19:20 - "If you want to be a good coach, you are going to have to be ok feeling like a bad coach often." 25:40 - "I'm committed to being more mentally tough, because I know I don't have some of the other separators people have." 27:00 - "If you're so overwhelmed with anxiety and fear, you're actually going to miss the lesson...Life will keep throwing you the same problem until you solve it." 34:00 - "Coaches need to speak truth, players need to accept truth, and change it. Truth is temporary" 39:25 - "If you love something enough...it's going to push you to the brink of quitting it" 44:00 - "Discipline and standards cannot be a moving target" 49:00 - "If you see the elephant in the room, you've got to go attack it"

How to Reach Edward: @courtsessions [email protected] [email protected] @edward5789oak (twitter)