Thank you for your participation in another #AskRav Q/A on Twitter, it was a stimulating exercise that I look forward to doing more often! If you missed it please enjoy the tweets below. Also please continue to use hashtag #AskRav in your tweets and I’ll try to answer as many questions as possible!
.@drashmancnn it teaches each of its participants #lifelessons such as team play, discipline, that you don’t win all or lose all the time..
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@drashmancnn how to work w/ people w/ a variety of skill sets & personalities, leadership skills, helps you discover who you really are…
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@drashmancnn and prepares you for the biggest game of all, life. #AskRav
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@ek32_intensity role players are an important ingredient of any organizational structure….
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@ek32_intensity The master coaches will assign a role to each player, he will discuss & attempt to justify why he assigned that role…
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@ek32_intensity & he must achieve buy in & player must execute that role. At the end of the day, biggest challenge is indiv embracing role
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
“@chmersch: What was your favorite thing about Iowa City? #AskRav” The book store downtown, can’t remember the name, it was excellent though
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@jcombs50 one is a full court one is half court. I like both, both are difficult to navigate against & both dicate how game is administered
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@ek32_intensity I’d prefer to have a combination of both, talent rich & highly skilled #AskRav
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@bigstreaker inconsistent commitment to the program, absence of vision, mission, goals & a strategy #AskRav
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@ayoungvisionary bball intelligence, the game is talent rich & if players could combine their highly skilled abilities… #AskRav
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@ayoungvisionary w/ strong understand of how game should be played… #AskRav
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@ayoungvisionary The game lacks originality & innovation, lacks visionaries, mavericks, & characters. The game suffers from group think.
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@sblackett10 Smith, because he’s a hard to guard player & can manufacture baskets during critical points of the game… #AskRav
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@sblackett10 And Doesn’t need O to do it all he needs is the ball. #AskRav
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@jimgillespie9 @iowahoops: BJ Armstrong, Roy Marble, Kevin Gamble, Les Jepsen, Ed Horton. And they all got drafted. #AskRav
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@hoopscoachsaey to create opportunities within your program for players to have to express themselves in a group setting #AskRav
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@hoopscoachsaey & occasionally videotape them, and go back and sit with the player to critique them #AskRav
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@frankswanson every place I coached I left feeling that I was a better person & better coach than when I arrived… #AskRav
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@frankswanson I’ve said it before, & I’ll say again, biggest mistake I made in my coaching career was leaving Iowa. #AskRav @iowahoops
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@frankswanson If I had to do it all over I would’ve stayed at Iowa. #AskRav
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
.@orindabob Coachability. #AskRav
— George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) April 5, 2013
