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	<title>The Cross Over Movement Blog</title>
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	<description>A blog about youth basketball, coaching and player development</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 06:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Girls, ACLs and Myths</title>
		<link>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/05/11/girls-acls-and-myths/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/05/11/girls-acls-and-myths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 06:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coachmccormick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Training</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NY Times has an article about girls and ACL tears titled &#8220;The Uneven Playing Field,&#8221; while Vern Gambetta offers his thoughts in a post titled, &#8220;Perpetuating Myths.&#8221;Honestly, I did not read the entire original article, as it featured interviews with many of the same people and redundant stories.
Unfortunately, the repetitive stories fail to educate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Precocity, Player Rankings and Early Specialization</title>
		<link>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/05/09/precocity-player-rankings-and-early-specialization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/05/09/precocity-player-rankings-and-early-specialization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 21:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coachmccormick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Commentary</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We rank third graders. I don&#8217;t know who, because I don&#8217;t even look at player rankings anymore after I was involved with a service and saw the disastrous process that led to the rankings, but someone ranks 3rd grade basketball players. 
I read some comments about women&#8217;s volleyball rankings yesterday. The comments said that women&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How We Coach</title>
		<link>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/05/08/how-we-coach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/05/08/how-we-coach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 17:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coachmccormick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Coaching</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once wrote on this site that &#8220;I am not a drill guy.&#8221; I think coaches look to drills to solve problems. I watched Kicking and Screaming the other night and Will Farrell picks up a soccer book and reads from it while trying to organize the kids to practice. It doesn&#8217;t work.
Drills are a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Learning</title>
		<link>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/05/05/thoughts-on-learning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/05/05/thoughts-on-learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 21:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coachmccormick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Coaching</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw The Visitor yesterday, which I thought was an excellent film. In the beginning, Walter, an older college professor, takes a piano lesson from a woman. The woman offers the same instruction she gives to little kids and ultimately Walter decides to find a new piano teacher. The woman says that it is very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rest and Tapering</title>
		<link>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/05/01/rest-and-tapering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/05/01/rest-and-tapering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 16:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coachmccormick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Training</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surfing the Internet this morning to find the winner of the TUF7 from this week because I missed (the show is my one reality show guilty pleasure, though I miss it more than I actually see it), I found an interview with Forrest Griffin talking about training his guys:
It was hard to tailor the workouts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Player&#8217;s Game</title>
		<link>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/05/01/its-a-players-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/05/01/its-a-players-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 01:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coachmccormick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Commentary</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read an interesting account of Avery Jonhson who was fired today by the Dallas Mavericks. The article mainly describes Johnson&#8217;s inability to communicate with his players and his lack of humility. Coching in the NBA is certainly different than coaching high school or college baketball, but it is an interesting example of communication failures.
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training with a Dog</title>
		<link>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/04/26/training-with-a-dog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/04/26/training-with-a-dog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coachmccormick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Training</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written before that the best ball handling training is to dribble around a couple hyper-active kids who want to chase the ball and play. I also wrote that a dog works too. I saw this about soccer star Ronaldinho:
Ronaldinho has revealed that a dog helped him to learn to play football and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AAU and Scouting</title>
		<link>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/04/25/aau-and-scouting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/04/25/aau-and-scouting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coachmccormick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Commentary</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the NorCalPreps message board, I read this comment by a user. This user has a very talented son, I don&#8217;t know his ranking, so take it with a grain of salt. However, I do not disagree with any of his comments:
I was in Denver this past weekend for a major AAU/Elite Club Tournament&#8230;I saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communication</title>
		<link>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/04/22/communication/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/04/22/communication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coachmccormick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Coaching</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did a coaching clinic in Montreal this weekend, and I started by saying that communication is the most important aspect of coaching. I tend to criticize coaching clinics because coached seem to want the magic drill or play that will solve their problems, but there is no such drill or play.
This morning, while catching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calipari&#8217;s Confidence</title>
		<link>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/04/16/caliparis-confidence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecrossovermovement.com/components/com_jd-wp/2008/04/16/caliparis-confidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coachmccormick</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Coaching</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Memphis lost in the NCAA Championship Game, everyone has slammed John Calipari for not calling a timeout to tell his team to foul. 
I like Calipari&#8217;s overall approach. He trusts his players to make plays. That is his coaching style. If you trust your players all season, I think you have to trust them [...]]]></description>
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