Morgan Wootten may be the most successful high school basketball coach of all time. Wootten won nearly 1,300 games, five mythical national championships, and coached dozens of Division 1 college players at DeMatha (MD) High School. Coach Wootten's ultimate accomplishment came with his 2000 enshrinement in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. In his book, Coaching Basketball Successfully, Coach Wootten outlines his "Big 5 in Coaching".
1. Our goal must be to provide a wholesome environment in which young men or women can develop themselves spiritually, socially, and academically.
2. As coaches, we should be the kind of coach we would want our sons or daughters to play for.
3. We must never lose sight of the fact that basketball is a game and it should be fun. We should never put winning ahead of the individual.
4. Because basketball is a great teaching situation...we must prepare them for the many decisions they will be making that will have long-range effects on the quality of their lives.
5. This is the bottom line: Are we doing all we can to make our players' sport experience as rewarding as possible?
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