COACHING PHILOSOPHY

The foundation of AACS basketball is God and His word.  The goal of the basketball program is to glorify Jesus Christ with the gifts He has given us.  This being the case, we do not apologize for competing hard, seeking success and striving to win.  One of the ways to glorify God is to play the game as it should be played and to strive after victory.  We play physical, fast and aggressive basketball.  Our young men are taught to be tough on the court and off the court.

• Hard Work:  to teach the young men given to us the joy of and the meaning of hard work.  This is a skill that is important for basketball and for all of life.  We stress this on the court, in the classroom and at home.
• To Play Great Basketball: along with hard work, learning to play correctly and well.  Each young man is given an allotment of talent – some more, some less.  Our desire is to develop that talent, to put it to the best use possible, that each young man might see and embrace his role on the team and in the program.  We focus on the fundamentals of the game:  ball handling, passing, dribbling, shooting, defensive skills and concepts which need to be taught and reinforced like teamwork, unity and physical toughness.
• Discipleship:  we point our young men to Jesus Christ.  Ultimately, our intent cannot simply be temporal.  Each young man is an eternal being.  He has the capacity to impact this world profoundly for good or for evil.  We seek the former and believe it is primarily obtained through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

As a program, we as coaches seek to build lasting, lifetime relationships with the young men we have been given.  It is through these relationships - between players and coaches and between players and their teammates, that success will ultimately be achieved - both on the court and off of it, for the time on the court, for this life and for the life to come.