Coach Matt Dennis: Building a program, working through mistakes as a young coach, and new ways to develop youth players.

 

October 11, 2022
The Becoming
The Becoming
Coach Matt Dennis: Building a program, working through mistakes as a young coach, and new ways to develop youth players.
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In this episode we are joined by Coach Matt Dennis. Coach Dennis has experience as a junior college coach, where he led a turnaround from 8-22 to 22-8 the following year. Coach Dennis is currently the head coach at Otsego High School where he is the winningest coach in program history. In this episode you will learn about what inspired Matt to become a head coach, getting his start in coaching at the JUCO level, his experiences as a head coach in JUCO, how he gets his players to buy in and play hard, and how he encourages communication in his players. Coach Dennis also shared some great insights on how has built his program at Otsego. He talks about running summer camps, creating a 3 on 3 basketball league, and how this could help shape the future of youth basketball. Listen to all this and more on the latest episode of The Becoming.

“What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.” – John Wooden.

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