Basketball Coaches Clinic On Twitter

Ok, so heres the idea. There are a ton of coaches currently on Twitter. And everyday these coaches are offering up amazingly insightful nuggets of information. Twitter truly is a great forum to write a quote or to add a piece of information on a particular subject and many coaches are spreading their knowledge this way which is a great thing. Heres the problem though.

Lets say a jr. college coach in New Jersey writes something thoughtful, creative or insightful about pick and roll defense that no one has ever heard of...that tweet only gets read by his followers and then if re-tweeted, by the followers of that person. But why not have his insightful words available to all coaches by using a common hashtag? For example #hoopsclinic - defense wins championships.

The other thing right now is that unless someone is tweeting a live game, the topics of conversation are of a random mix and come at random times. The randomness is great and all, however, I think it would be pretty amazing if a set date and time was being used on twitter, by as many coaches as can be reached, and all of them talking and discussing the same set topic or topics.

If anyone follows David Thorpe on twitter, he did something like this when he was tweeting from the Orlando Pro Summer League. He spent one afternoon tweeting soley on defense. It was so compelling and also was great because you knew that day what you were getting. And the wisdom was extrordinary.

I don't think something like this would be very hard to organize. It could be a five day thing, with a few hours blocked off on each day, or even the entire day of a week, with each day devoted to a new topic - defense, offense, rebounding, pick and roll, recruiting etc whatever was decided on.

It's going to do two things: It's going to take all this amazing information and pearls of wisdom that is being dished out daily on twitter and organize it somewhat into a nice and neat place where all coaches can see.

Secondly, it would harbor and open up the lines of communication even more than they already are. I picture it to be an open discussion and philosophy sharing experience.

If this takes off, it could be one of the biggest clinics around and the best part is it would be done from your home and be absolutely free.

I think this is a pretty neat idea and I think twitter is the perfect forum for this. The clinic would need a name. I imagine the name of the clinic to also be the hashtag, so the name would have to be Twitter proof and be low in characters yet clever and descriptive. That I would say is step one with spreading the word being step two.

Drop me a line either in email, justindif@gmail.com or on twitter @justindefeo if you'd like to be involved or have suggestions.