We are now just over a week until we reconvene for this year's assessment camp held March 22-26. I was fortunate to spend two days in Truro, NS with Michael MacKay and Denise Dignard to plan the majority of the camp. Since we met at the beginning of the month I have been putting the complete plan together and communicating with Canada Basketball to ensure all the pieces are in place.
Aside from a couple of injuries to the athlete's attending, everything seems set to go. With six training sessions in just three days it is important that we take the time ahead of the camp to plan the majority of what will take place. It is a very short amount of time to cover a lot of material and appropriately evaluate the athletes. I think we have a great plan in place to maximize our time both on and off the court.
Now our plan will likely be altered several times as we progress through the weekend but it is important to have things in place. Our goal is to implement key offensive and defensive concepts, and spend some time breaking down the skills for both of these in the mornings. In the evening we will put the pieces together and compete while coaching more on the fly. It will be interesting to see how the concepts and ideas we have developed so far will fit with the skill sets we think we have, or what we might end up altering after the weekend.
Through today's technology, Dropbox in particular, we have been able to share some video content with the athlete's that demonstrates some individual drills and skills for them to help appropriately prepare themselves. I hope that we an utilize the same technology for tracking the selected athletes between now and our pre-World Championship training camp in August!
If time permits, I will update you as our camp progresses next weekend.
