First workouts are coming

We had our first team meeting last night.  We were supposed to have it today and then start workouts on Thursday.  However, as a Twitter person, you start to read about how all the other programs who started school last week were starting workouts.  As a new staff, I think we were also anxious to get to work with our kids, so we moved everything up and will start workouts today.  I couldn't be more excited.  This is the part of being a basketball coach that I love the most.  We've planned and met.  We've met and planned.  Now we get to start working on the season.  I know the players are excited as well.  That's the easy part.  It will be interesting to see who rises to the occasion and who shrinks from the challenge.  Our goal is to raise the level of expectation the players have for themselves.  Our job is to push them individually to the next level, which in turn, pushes are team to the next level.  The real challenge for them is to fight through the uncertainty.  They don't know what to expect from us.  They don't know what the next level feels or looks like.  The more the players trust us, the quicker we will get to where we need to be as a program