About the Coach's Clipboard
From the Coach’s Clipboard Basketball Playbook, @ http://www.coachesclipboard.netThe Coach's Clipboard is a web-site and company dedicated to providing free, or low cost, information to basketball coaches and players. It was founded some years ago by Dr. Jim Gels (see bio below), and has grown by leaps and bounds after it became "discovered" by search engines and coaches and players throughout the world. The Coach's Clipboard hopes to serve as a reference for the many basketball coaches throughout the world involved in coaching youth basketball and high-school level basketball. The web-site presents a large volume of free basketball coaching information in the form of articles, animated Flash diagrams and video clips. Many basketball offenses and plays, defenses, player fundamentals, drills, press offenses and defenses, and general basketball coaching articles and coaching forms are included.
To help cover the costs, several excellent products are available for purchase including a Deluxe Basketball Coach's CD, a Basketball Player's CD and two downloads - the Basketball Playbook, and the Basketball Playbook & Animations.
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About the author, Dr. Jim Gels... aka "Coach Gels"
| "Coach" Gels resides in Charlevoix,
Michigan and is a physician still actively practicing the
speciality of Internal Medicine. He grew up in St. Henry, Ohio
and graduated from Miami University (1968) and the Ohio State
University College of Medicine (1972), and did his residency in
Internal Medicine at Beaumont Hospital (Royal Oak, Mi), finishing in 1975. He is an active staff member and former Chief of Staff at Charlevoix Area Hospital, Charlevoix, Mi, where he currently is the director of both Intensive Care and the Non-Invasive Cardiac Lab. Dr. Gels is board-certified in Internal Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Coach Gels has been happily married since 1970 and has two grown children. His basketball experience comes from playing the game every year from childhood until the age of 40 (amateur level). He then became involved in coaching youth basketball and has coached youth basketball at various levels for the last 20 years, both in the Charlevoix Youth Basketball Association and also the Charlevoix Northern Lakers (AAU) club. Along with Rick Grunch (Charlevoix, Mi), he co-founded the Charlevoix Northern Lakers program, was the club coordinator, and former AAU coach. |
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| Coach Gels is currently an assistant coach for the Charlevoix high school boys varsity under head coach Keith Haske. Over the past ten years, Coach Haske's boys teams have won a number of conference titles, District and Regional tournament championships, and have been a participant in the Michigan State Semi-Finals and Finals at Michigan State's Breslin Center a number of times, including 1999, 2001, 2004, and 2007. In 2008, the boys repeated as conference and District tournament champs, finishing with a 20-3 record. As expected, the boys JV and freshmen teams under Bret Erskine and Bryan Hawkins (and now Adam Wood) have been very successful as well during that time period. |  (Left to right: Coaches Gels, Haske, and Erskine) |
Coach Gels also has been involved with the girls program as a Charlevoix HS varsity girls assistant coach (originally under Keith Haske, and now under Bret Erskine). The 2004 team went 27-1, losing in the state final game by 5 points at Michigan State's Breslin Center. The girls finished the 2005, 2006, and 2007-2008 seasons as District and Conference champs with a records of 20-4, 18-5, and 20-3 respectively. The girl's JV team has had remarkable success as well. Former JV Coach Liz Grunch accumulated a 60-0 record with three straight undefeated 20-0 seasons (2004, 2005 and 2006). Coach Leslie Hoffman's team (2007-2008) went 18-1. Gels has also assisted freshmen coaches Sara Mulador (20-0 in 2004), Doug Drenth (15-1 in 2005), and Leslie Hoffman (15-1 in 2006). The combined girls won-loss record for 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007-08 is 202-14. At one point (over several seasons), the JV girls had a 76 game winning streak!
Disclaimer
Coach Gels does not claim to be an expert, as there are many
other more successful, knowledgeable and experienced coaches, and many other points of view. You are advised to visit the other excellent coaching sites listed on the "Links" page. Coach Gels has compiled this material for you, but it should not be construed as any absolute truths, as there are many ways to coach and play the game. The author gives this information freely, and assumes no liability for others who use this material. See Legal Notices.
Copyright Restrictions
All articles and contents of the Coach's Clipboard web-site,
including the articles, diagrams, graphics, animated diagrams and video clips, the Deluxe CD, the Players CD, and the Playbook and Playbook & Animations downloads are protected by US Unauthorized copying is prohibited by law.
Dr. Gels has created this site for your personal use, to further the knowledge of the fundamentals of the game. You may print and use the web-site's materials for your team and your personal use. Since most of this basketball site contains knowledge that Coach Gels has learned from others, he does not claim the knowledge as his own. However, in recognition of the work done in organizing, writing and designing this website, the author would appreciate an acknowledgement for any of the topics reproduced. You are not permitted to reproduce any of these materials if you plan to use them in a profitable way, and may not use any of this information on your own web-site without permission from Coach Gels.
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