tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24329551994426651862024-03-18T06:21:12.761-07:00HOOP THOUGHTSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3851125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2432955199442665186.post-84118544388879703842020-12-13T09:09:00.002-08:002020-12-13T09:09:42.997-08:00WHY IS DEFENSE IMPORTANT<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--fjAxVgXEuA/X9ZKIwI7WrI/AAAAAAAASxM/R8IC9VSOUXwNehBPnZ9qYKZDxmqpBbT-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s711/IMG_3253.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="711" height="276" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--fjAxVgXEuA/X9ZKIwI7WrI/AAAAAAAASxM/R8IC9VSOUXwNehBPnZ9qYKZDxmqpBbT-gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h276/IMG_3253.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="color: white;">Going into our game with Texas a week ago, I wasn't pleased with our defense. We were missing the buy-in and the commitment needed to sustain a good defensive effort that makes up a good defensive team. After a few days (and nights) of thought, I came to the conclusion that I'd fallen short in teaching the "why" -- concentrating only on the how and what of defensive play. So a few days before heading to Austin we sat the team down and addressed them on "Why Defense Is Important." Here are some notes from that talk:</span></span><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: white;">TELL ME WHY DEFENSE IS IMPORTANT...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Most will tell me </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">what</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"> is important about defense<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">But </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">why</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"> is defense important<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: white;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">DEFENSE REVEALS WHO YOU ARE AS A PERSON </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">(not a basketball player)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">It speaks to your </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">character</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Who you are at your </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">core</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: white;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">IT’S A MINDSET BEFORE IT’S A SKILLSET</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">We can see your </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">strengths</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Not physically...not your foot quickness...not your speed...not your length<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">We can see your </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">weaknesses</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Not how slow you are...not how small you are<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: white;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Strengths of a person </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">COMMITTED TO PLAYING DEFENSE</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Grit & Determination </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">- “I’m going to own this possession.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Mental Toughness </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">- they have an ability succeed through failure<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lasor focus...they were where their feet are<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Clear the mechanism” — “What train?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Physical Toughness </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they don’t rest or take plays off<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Warrior Mentality </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">- </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Inflict their will on their opponent<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Heart of a Competitor </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Finding a Way to Win - Stu Aberdeen: Surgeon, Lawyer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: white;">Weaknesses that are on display of a poor defensive player<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">Mentally Soft </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">- can’t handle momentary failure and set back <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">•</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Not an NBA player - Living in the Past<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">•</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Egg and a Tennis Ball<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">•</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Unable or unwilling to concentrate<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">Lack of Physical Toughness </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">- not tough enough to play minor pains<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">Fear</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"> - or work, or competition, of failure<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">Laziness</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"> - doesn’t like the work involved<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">Lack of Empathy </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">- just doesn’t care<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: white;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">We also get a lot into you own </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">SELF-DISCIPLINE</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">What you do when no one’s watching </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">(helpside for example)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">What you do when no one cares </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">(fans, media, late game, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">Preparation </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">(scouting report, video)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">•</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Not talking about the minimum<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">•</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Kobe (...everyone want’s to be the beast)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">Understands Practice </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">in regard to preparation & habits<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: white;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">We can see your </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">INTERNAL VALUE SYSTEM</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">...what’s truly important to you<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Players that Defend care about </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">WINNING</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Players that Defend care about </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">COMPETING</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Players that Defend care about </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">TRADITION</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"> - those before them<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Players that Defend care about their </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">TEAMMATES</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">It’s the </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">NOBILITY OF DOING SOMETHING FOR THE RIGHT REASONS</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">No glory in defense — no headlines or awards<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">It’s the </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;">DISCIPLINE OF DOING IT FOR THE RIGHT REASONS</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Defense is not just about what kind of basketball player you are but </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">what kind of person you currently are and want to be.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Many will tell you defense starts with heart — it doesn’t.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It starts with your brain.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s your brain that makes all the decisions.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s your brain that transmit signals to your legs, your arms, your lungs and yes, your heart.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bottom line?</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Being a good defensive player is a choice — being a tough person is a choice — being a disciplined person is a choice. Being a successful person is a choice.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s never a matter of heart — it’s a matter or desire...do you want to?...do you want to bad enough?</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s a decision...it’s a choice.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">IT’S NOT OUR ABILITIES THAT DEFINE US, BUT OUR CHOICES?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Who you are is who you are! </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">It’s not a part-time job</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">...if you defend well part of the time you’re not a good defender...if you prepare part of the time, you’re not preparing at all.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: white;">NOW THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION IS WHERE <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: white;">DO YOU FALL IN ALL OF THIS AND IS IT IMPORTANT <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">ENOUGH FOR YOU TO IMPROVE OR CHANGE?</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: white;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: white;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com91tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2432955199442665186.post-83040177583969952882020-10-05T06:58:00.003-07:002020-10-05T07:17:44.365-07:00COVID CLINIC NOTES: PART III<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-42nSO8Zijqk/X3sq3RPYO0I/AAAAAAAASv0/fbORqiGmExgdxU9QJ5fOpIrL-gsWaTErACLcBGAsYHQ/s1561/COVID%2BCLINIC%2BPIC%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="1561" height="160" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-42nSO8Zijqk/X3sq3RPYO0I/AAAAAAAASv0/fbORqiGmExgdxU9QJ5fOpIrL-gsWaTErACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h160/COVID%2BCLINIC%2BPIC%2B3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;"><br />This is Part III of a series of clinic notes. During the past 6 months I have had the opportunity to attend 37 zoom clinics. It has been an outstanding opportunity of growth for me -- learning and listening to coaches I great respect and many I had not gotten the opportunity to hear and what I'm d</span><span style="color: white;">oing over the next few days is to share a few quick hitters.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>Buzz Williams:</b> "Our team of coaches is the example of being a great teammate for our teams."</span></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>Chris Beard</b>: Adapt to technology — big in sending clips to players on their phone.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> Mike Neighbors' recommendations:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> Podcasts: Michael Lewis — “Against the Rules”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> Book: “Thinking In Bets” — Annie Duke<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> Website: “FeelForTheGame.com”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>Eric Musselman:</b> Worked for Chuck Daly who referred to everything as a meeting. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> A timeout was a meeting </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> Pre game was a meeting </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> Halftime was a meeting </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> Post game was a meeting </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> You have to be prepared for meetings</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Frank Martin:</b> </span>Our cornerstones:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; mso-level-number-format: arabic; mso-level-text: "%1\."; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> 1.</span><span style="width: 7.2pt;"> </span><span lang="en-US">Honesty<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; mso-level-number-format: arabic; mso-level-text: "%1\."; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> 2.</span><span style="width: 7.2pt;"> </span><span lang="en-US">Trust</span><span lang="en-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; mso-level-number-format: arabic; mso-level-text: "%1\."; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> 3.</span><span style="width: 7.2pt;"> </span><span lang="en-US">Loyalty</span><span lang="en-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; mso-level-number-format: arabic; mso-level-text: "%1\."; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> 4.</span><span style="width: 7.2pt;"> </span><span lang="en-US">Love</span><span lang="en-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Need love to withstand the storms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Kevin Eastman: </b><o:p></o:p></span>Control what you can control</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> System you employ<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> Players you choose<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> Example you set<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> Preparation you put in<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Mike Lombardi:</b> </span>Must have a leader regardless of skill set</span></p>
<p class="ydp47bf76a7p10"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> Management of attention<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="ydp47bf76a7p10"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> Command of process<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="ydp47bf76a7p10"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> Command of self<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="ydp47bf76a7p10"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"> Management of trust<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>Tim Kight</b> on discipline:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">Discipline means "learning" not punishment" -- it's a learned skill </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Disciplined is not something done to you but chosen by you to do.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">If you chose not to have a disciplined life, you will live by default.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">Observations by <b>Mike Lombardi</b>:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">1. Peyton Manning had an elite level of preparation — great note taker...would come to QB meeting on Tuesday and have 16-30 pages of notes from the game film he took himself before meeting with staff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><span lang="en-US"> 2. </span>Watched Tom Brady in Patriots meeting room — 2nd row...complete eye contact...at practice by himself working on nothing but footwork.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><span lang="en-US"> 3. </span>Wade/LeBron working out together — level of work….level of detail in stretching.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><b>Tom Cream: </b>"Somebody’s greatness may be somebody else’s good."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com113tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2432955199442665186.post-70254775447326120812020-09-25T07:15:00.001-07:002020-09-25T07:15:14.649-07:00COVID CLINIC NOTES (PART II)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-61IPJ1od-jI/X23wVRFWdJI/AAAAAAAASvQ/bSKMerhmc5sruSdikapxD0pUTv532DRvACLcBGAsYHQ/s1922/COVID%2BCLINIC%2BPIC%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="1922" height="166" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-61IPJ1od-jI/X23wVRFWdJI/AAAAAAAASvQ/bSKMerhmc5sruSdikapxD0pUTv532DRvACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h166/COVID%2BCLINIC%2BPIC%2B2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">This is Part II of a series of clinic notes. During the past 6 months I have had the opportunity to attend 37 zoom clinics. It has been an outstanding opportunity of growth for me -- learning and listening to coaches I greatly respect and many I had not gotten the opportunity to hear before. Obviously 37 zoom clinics have created a mountain of notes and what I'm doing over the next few days is to share a few quick hitters.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: white;"><b>Mike Lombardi</b> on Bill Belichick and the message to his staff: “this who we are — go find players that fit.”</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="color: white;"><b>Tom Cream</b> on recruiting: "If a kid isn’t winning in the summer circuit you need to take a deeper look." </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="color: white;"><b>Todd Henry:</b> Be wise in assimilating information to everyone</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-eudc-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"> ◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;">Send necessary emails to necessary people</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-eudc-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"> ◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;">Have necessary meeting with necessary people</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-eudc-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"> ◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;">Give necessary information with necessary people</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="color: white;"><b>Todd Gongwer:</b> With all the adversity, two things remain unchanged:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"></span><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-eudc-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"> ◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;">The amount of time we have each day</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"></span><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-eudc-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"> ◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;">The ability to make choices</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><b> </b></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>Tim Kight:</b> “Every team faces some kind of adversity. Mediocre teams are destroyed by it. Good teams survive it. Great teams get better because of it.”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>S</b></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>tan Van Gundy:</b> “It’s the worst feeling when opponent gets an easy bucked because we didn’t prepare.”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><b> </b></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>Shaka Smart’s</b> Non-Negotiable’s</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="ydp4587c01bp10" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"></span><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-eudc-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"> ◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;">Effort</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="ydp4587c01bp10" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"></span><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-eudc-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"> ◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;">Communication</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="ydp4587c01bp10" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"></span><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-eudc-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"> ◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;">1 second rule — time to bounce up after hitting the floor</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="ydp4587c01bp10" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="color: white;"><b>Rod Olson</b> on the Navy SEALS: Raised team standard means individual standards are raised.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="ydp4587c01bp10" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="color: white;"><b>Antonio Lang:</b> Pat Riley would tape shoot around and walk thru.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="ydp4587c01bp10" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="color: white;"><b>Mike Wells:</b> “A pro can be ready to play 30 minutes when they haven’t played in two weeks.”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="ydp4587c01bp10" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="color: white;"><b>Roland Nored:</b> “Break bread with players.”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="ydp4587c01bp10" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="color: white;"><b>Mike Neighbors:</b> Feedback must be immediate on shots early in practice and season.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="ydp4587c01bp10" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="color: white;"><b>Buzz Williams:</b> Determine what space to fight for</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="ydp4587c01bp10" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"></span><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-eudc-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"> ◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;">How do I utilize my time?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
</p><p class="ydp4587c01bp10" style="mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"></span><span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-eudc-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;"> ◄</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;">Goal - efficiency</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having been blessed to have coached some of the best to play the game, I have been able to study their approach. One of the most important attributes I've found is their ability to constantly look to improve -- even after big wins or great performances. An example of that comes from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Bets-Making-Smarter-Decisions/dp/0735216355"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">"Thinking In Bets"</span></b></a> by <a href="https://www.annieduke.com/"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Annie Duke</span></b></a> -- a fascinating take on the decisions we make. Shoutout to <a href="https://arkansasrazorbacks.com/coache/mike-neighbors/"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Mike Neighbors</span></b></a> for recommending this book. The story as told by Duke is about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ivey"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Phil Ivey</span></b></a>, one of the best poker players in the land:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In 2004, my brother provided televised final-table commentary for a tournament in which Phil Ivey smoked a star-studded final table. After his win, the two of them went to a restaurant for dinner, during which Ivey deconstructed every potential playing error he thought he might have made on his way to victory, asking my brother's opinion about each strategic decision. A more run-of-the-mill player might have spent the time talking about how great they played, relishing the victory. Not Ivey. For him, the opportunity to learn from his mistakes was much more important than treating that dinner as a self-satisfying celebration. He earned a half-million dollars and won a lengthy poker tournament over world-class competition, but all he wanted to do was discuss with a fellow pro where he might have made better decisions."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The champion also takes responsibility for their improvement and growth when they practice self-accountability. As Navy SEAL Rorke Denver says, <span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">“Every SEAL must learn to run his own jump.</span><span lang="en-US" style="color: white; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 119%;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">You pack your own chute.”</span></span><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;"><i>The following is the address given by Ciera Johnson at the Unity March for Black Lives Matter on the campus at Texas A&M, Thursday, June 11. The event was sponsored by the A&M Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Ciera is a senior captain for the Aggie women's basketball team:</i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">Imagine a teacher giving you a nickname because they're too lazy to pronounce or learn your ethnic name. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">Imagine your skin being viewed as a weapon but every summer people can’t wait to tan and get darker. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Imagine going anywhere in the world and people already hate you because of the color of your skin.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">Imagine being admired on game day, but being feared the moment the game is over.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">And lastly, Imagine a police officer has his knee on the neck of your father for over eight minutes and your father yelling “I can’t breath,” while being suffocated to death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">The death of George Floyd didn’t ignite a new movement. It just brought light to a fight that has been going on for a very long time. People like Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Angela Davis, Medgar Evers, James Baldwin, and others have been fighting for our humanity, justice, and equality. We must continue the fight that was started over hundreds of years ago. This is our chance to make a difference and stand for something bigger than ourselves and sport. We all have a voice and our voices must be heard. We are the future and what we do now will impact the lives of generations to come. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Former Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall said, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">“Racism separates, but it never liberates. Hatred generates fear, and fear once given a foothold binds, consumes and imprisons. Nothing is gained from prejudice. No one benefits from racism.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Civil Rights Activist, Angela Davis said, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">“</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And do it all the time.”</span></span><span lang="en-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2432955199442665186.post-17096182486139501422020-03-10T08:56:00.001-07:002020-03-10T08:56:01.359-07:00A GREAT MESSAGE FROM BRIAN AGLER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few weeks ago our program was blessed to have the Dallas Wings head coach <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Agler"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Brian Agler</span></b></a> stop by to watch us practice. Afterwards Coach Gary Blair asked Brian if he'd mind saying a few words to our team. What followed was an amazing message that he left with us -- here are few of the nuggets he gave us:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Are you ready for the next thing to happen."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He referenced <a href="https://angeladuckworth.com/grit-book/"><b><span style="color: red;">Angela Duckworth's book "Grit"</span></b></a> by reminding us that the #1 indicator of success is having grit. He also told our players to pull up youtube of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H14bBuluwB8"><b><span style="color: red;">Duckworth's TedTalk</span></b></a> on grit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He finished by giving us what he considered the 4 traits of champions:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>#1 Preparation</b> - not just about practice but studying film, knowing your scouting report, rest, sleep, and nutrition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>#2 Integrity</b> - do the right thing and make the right choices when no one is watching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>#3 Grit</b> - be resilient...welcome tough times -- they make your stronger.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2432955199442665186.post-84396380618802376962019-11-15T07:37:00.002-08:002019-11-15T07:37:46.921-08:00MISSING THE MARK ON THE "CRUMMY GAME OF THE WEEK"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On this date today, 49 years and a day, I was sitting in my living room on a rainy Saturday evening in Teays Valley, West Virginia (approximately 40 miles from Huntington) when WSAZ sports broadcast Bos Johnson broke in local programming. Choking back tears, he reported that Marshall's football charter plane had crashed on approach into Huntington.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the next half of century, the story of Marshall football has been an amazing journey of overcoming the most difficult of adversities. The rise from the ashes was long and painful but it showed the greatest of resiliency for a community and continues to inspire a nation today. I could list wins, conference championships, a shining bowl record and even National titles since that tragic evening 49 years ago but the true testament is to the people who rebuilt not just a program but a community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday was the annual <a href="http://www.marshall.edu/history-and-traditions/sample-page/traditions/annual-fountain-ceremony/"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Memorial Fountain Ceremony</span></b></a> in which we turn off the Memorial Fountain on the Marshall campus. I took time away from my work, which I do annually, to watch the ceremony on-line. It is simply and without question one of the most moving and special traditions in college sport. As a student at Marshall and later as a coach of the Thundering Herd women's basketball program, I was blessed to observed in person the wide range of emotions at this event. To be there in person is to remember it at another level for the rest of your life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then this morning, as I read our local The Eagle newspaper, I am reminded that not everyone gets it -- or understands what sport can truly be about. Each Friday, the sports department at The Eagle list "This Week's Games" and beside it they have people that predict the outcome of those games. And each week, someone in their infinite wisdom chooses what they call "crummy game of the week." I have never appreciated that category and can only assume that they have no idea what competing is about on the collegiate level despite level of play or records of teams or the hard work and sacrifice by the student-athletes and coaches involved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet my disdain for the "crummy game of the week" went to a new level this morning when it listed the Louisiana Tech at Marshall game as their choice. When the Marshall football team takes the field at Joan C. Edwards Stadium tonight there will be tears for many...it will be represented of the loss we suffered nearly 50 years ago as well as the spirit and love that have helped us to move forward. The Herd will wear special helmets with the number 75 representing each life lost that evening and they will play with a powerful "why." It will be, as it is each season, an amazing day!</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2432955199442665186.post-67699212845470676682019-08-28T07:55:00.000-07:002019-08-28T07:55:08.623-07:00THE IMPORTANCE OF PACKAGING YOUR MESSAGE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our athletic department was blessed this opening week of school to have <a href="https://growingleaders.com/tim-elmore/"><b><span style="color: red;">Tim Elmore</span></b></a> speak to our student-athletes and then to our coaches and administrators. While there was several great take-aways from Tim in our challenge to better communicate, teach and inspire a new generation of young people, one really resonated with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tim held up a bottle of water and talked about the difference in "timeless" and "culture." He explained that water is timeless -- it's been around forever. Yet here we are today consuming water out of a bottle instead of a faucet -- that is the change in culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Water is the message we are trying to deliver to our student-athletes. The messages today are no different than the messages from yesterday -- commitment, work ethic, sacrifice, teamwork, etc. But as teachers we have to change our "packaging." We can't deliver water out of the faucet anymore and this needs to be an important consideration as we give thought to communicating and teaching our individuals and teams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the way, one of my favorite regular emails I get comes from Tim and you can <a href="https://growingleaders.com/blog/get-updates-via-email/"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>sign up and get on the mailing list here</b></span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always like to pass on a good book when I run across one and <a href="https://store.puresweatbasketball.com/collections/books/products/the-coachs-season-providing-solutions-for-year-round-coaching-success"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">"The Coach's Season"</span></b></a> by <a href="http://events.puresweatbasketball.com/coaches.cfm/Profile/Jason-Fry"><b><span style="color: red;">Jason Fry</span></b></a> is excellent. My first thought is that a young coach just starting out in the business or a coach who just grabbed their first head coaching gig would find this an amazing resource. But it's also invaluable for the veteran coach who is always looking to improve their program or take it to another level. I would add that while this is a must-have for high school coaches, there is great information to benefit coaches at other levels from junior high school to college.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The structure of the book is unique in that Jason interviewed over 100 of the best high school coaches in the country to get an amazing variety of answers to key questions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>THE PRE-SEASON</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the first section of the book with Q&A's with 34 high school coaches. Here are just some of the sample questions that are asked of the coaches:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>How do you balance family with team life during the season?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>What advice do you have for a first- or second-year coach?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>What did your pre-season preparation look like with your staff?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>What are three responsibilities you have given your assistants?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>What is one thing you do differently from others?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, the reader is getting answers to these questions from the best of the best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>THE IN-SEASON</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second section has a list of Q&A's from 30 outstanding high school coaches. These questions have a lot to do with preparation and game organization:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>How are you incorporating player development in the season?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>What are roles do your assistants have in practice as well as games?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>What is one thing a coach can do to...</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> ...learn each day?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> ...build relationships?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> ...grow their feeder systems?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An example of a great question in this section is<i> "What do you do during the month of January to improve team morale and keep spirits high?" </i>Legendary coach Don Showalter responded with these gems:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">--Cut practice time to an hour and a half or even an hour as January progresses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">--Take a practice or two and play whiffle ball or dodge ball for the last 30 minutes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">--Allow your players to plan a practice session and have the coaches sit and watch practice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">--Take the team bowling, to a college or NBA basketball game, or have a pizza party</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">--Work on skills only for a couple of practice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are responses from 29 outstanding coaches in the third section which deals largely with how you are growing and improving your program in the off-season. Some great Q&A's include:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>What are your priorities during the off-season?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>What are you seeking to learn in the off-season?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>How do you prepare players for new roles?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>What does your evaluation as a team/player at the end of the season look like?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is also a brief section at the end of resources such as player evaluation forms for the off-season</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>BONUS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the bonuses of the book I enjoyed is that all 117 coaches that were interviewed gave their favorite motivational quote -- that alone makes the book invaluable. Click <a href="https://store.puresweatbasketball.com/collections/books/products/the-coachs-season-providing-solutions-for-year-round-coaching-success"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">here</span></b></a> for more information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2432955199442665186.post-13863009924256033832019-07-01T13:13:00.001-07:002019-07-01T13:16:40.219-07:00WHAT ARE YOU DOING THE "REST OF THE TIME"<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following is a great passage from<a href="https://whatdriveswinning.com/"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> "What Drives Winning" by Brett Ledbette</span></b>r</a> and makes a profound point about opportunities where we create value without being involved in the actual action. It's the "time between actions." What is your self-talk like at those opportunities? Are you focusing on what's next or what just happened?</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2432955199442665186.post-42703322177872224222019-06-26T07:42:00.002-07:002019-06-26T07:42:49.618-07:00UNLEASHING GREATNESS: THOUGHTS FROM DON YAEGER<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yesterday I shared some bullet points from </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.themolitorgroup.com/"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Ed Molitor</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I grabbed at the "Unleashing Greatness" seiminar and today wanted to do the same with the many nuggets I grabbed from <a href="https://donyaeger.com/"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Don Yaeger</span></b></a>. I've known Don for over 20 years including one season where he spent the year with our LSU team and he is sincerely one of the most genuine people I have met that cares deeply about helping people -- a great writer and a great speaker. Here's what I learned from him back in April:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Camaraderie - “I appreciate you.”</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-armenian-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-currency-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;">Success leaves clues<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2432955199442665186.post-18664471618057296722019-06-25T14:54:00.000-07:002019-06-25T14:54:47.268-07:00UNLEASHING GREATNESS: THOUGHTS FROM ED MOLITOR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In April, I had the privilege of attending an <b>"Unleashing Greatness"</b> seminar that was co-hosted by </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.themolitorgroup.com/"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Ed Molitor</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and <a href="https://donyaeger.com/"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Don Yaeger</span></b></a>. It was a one-day conference on the campus of Texas A&M and a tablet full of notes later I wanted to share with you just a few of the great bullet points I got from Ed on topics such as leadership, culture, accountability and recruiting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">This is certainly a specific set of summer pick-up guidelines from Coach Majerus but you can absolutely see what he is trying to emphasize with his team. What your points of emphasis in pick up that will help improve your team?</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2432955199442665186.post-69550921008408744672019-03-27T11:20:00.002-07:002019-03-27T11:20:27.816-07:00UNLEASHING GREATNESS PERFORMANCE EVENT - APRIL 10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm incredibly excited about this event and looking forward to growing in my personal and professional life on April 10 at the Hall of Champions at Kyle Field. I've known <a href="http://donyaeger.com/"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Don Yaegar </span></b></a>for 20 years and he is a transformative speaker. <a href="https://www.themolitorgroup.com/"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> Ed Molitor</span></b></a> is a former coach that has dedicated his life to helping groups and individuals find success.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Join Don Yaeger and Ed Molitor in the Ford Hall of Champions at Kyle Field for Unleashing Greatness, a Leadership Performance event where they will share with you the traits and behaviors of high-performing leaders in athletics. They will demonstrate how those same traits and behaviors intersect with remarkable business leaders. More importantly, they will show you how you can further develop these traits and behaviors to unleash your individual and collective greatness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no better setting for this powerful event: the Ford Hall of Champions was part of an unprecedented transformation of Kyle Field and continues in the traditions of the greatness of Texas A&M. For one day, the Ford Hall of Champions will serve as a gathering place for some of the top business leaders and teams in the region.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This setting will provide a memorable experience in a creative environment and help us break away from the typical conference setting. The Ford Hall of Champions setting means fewer interruptions and more focus — a day out of the office provides an opportunity to take a mental break from the never-ending to-do list and the usual distractions that pop up throughout the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our day together will be broken down into three sections where Don and Ed plan to go deep on:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">•Unleashing Greatness through Authentic and Resilient Leadership</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">•Recruiting in a Tight Labor Market and Stopping the Revolving Door</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">•Embracing the Power of Greatness- Game-Changers that you will not find in the playbook</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Additionally there will be an interactive Q&A Section. The practices we cover will equip you with the tools to:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">•Increase your self-awareness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">•Communicate authentically</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">•Leverage your strengths</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">•Develop and strengthen powerful relationships</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">•Develop an unshakeable foundation of trust</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">•Build a culture worth fighting for</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">•Develop a champion mindset built through self-discipline and repetition</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2432955199442665186.post-15792493262153527222019-01-09T10:16:00.000-08:002019-01-09T10:16:31.958-08:00ACCOUNTABILITY MUST START AT THE TOP<br />
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<i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">“I just have a feeling that I didn’t do a very good job for our team, with our team, giving them the best opportunity to be successful, I always feel that way, even sometimes when we win, I think there’s things we could do better or that I could have done better. But particularly in this case, never really ever got comfortable with what we needed to do to win this game, especially on defense, especially the matchups we had in our secondary versus their receivers. That was something that was kind of bothering me going into the game, and as the game unfolded, it worked out that those matchups were a big difference in the game.”</i></blockquote>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 119%;">Another reason I believe he took that approach is that he worked for and learned from another coaching/teaching great in Bill Belichick. In the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Belichick-Making-Greatest-Football-Coach/dp/0544785746"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">"Belichick"</span></b> </a>by Ian O'Connor, the writer talks about the Patriots locker room after New England's loss in Super Bowl XXLI. After all, the Patriots had completed a perfect season to that point with a record of 18-0 before a heartbreaking loss to the New York Giants 17-14 kept them from making history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Almost to a man, the Patriots were slumped at their lockers and silently blaming themselves.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Ever after a soul-crushing defeat, these players were wired to look in their own mirrors when assigning culpability.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">It was part of the ethos of what would become known as the Patriots Way.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 119%;">Into this dark abyss stepped the head coach of the New England Patriots. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 119%;">What is he going to say? </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 119%;">players thought to themselves. What can any coach possibly say in this moment? Belichick stood among these shattered men and started to speak. “It’s more emotional than I’ve ever seen Bill,” said Heath Evans.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">As low as he’d ever been, Belichick rose to his chief responsibility.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">“He said, ‘We didn’t prepare you guys well enough.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">The coaches didn’t do a good enough job, and that falls on me.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">I didn’t prepare you guys well enough, and I’m really sorry for that,” Stallworth recounted.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">“He didn’t blame the coaches.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">He blamed himself for everything and he apologized for that.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">He could easily said, ‘It sucks, but we dint’ make enough players.’</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">He didn’t mention the players at all...To me, that shows a lot about who he is as a person.”</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Evans said Belichick took specific responsibility for the offensive failure in the game.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">“He owned the situation, and it wasn’t verbiage,” the fullback said.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">“He owned the situation, and it wasn’t verbiage.”</span></i></blockquote>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2432955199442665186.post-62368480351851038652018-11-29T07:07:00.002-08:002018-11-29T07:07:29.721-08:00TRANSITION DEFENSE -- "POINT AND TALK"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are so many thoughts regarding effective transition defense. You must first convert mentally. There is nothing more important than the beginning -- the first three steps are essential for the possibility of success. Straight-line sprint -- critical key for success. But another facet of great transition defense occurs once your cross half-court. We are constantly talking to our team about <i><b>"pointing and talking"</b></i> -- in other words everyone should be talking and pointing to who they are picking up in transition and seeing if someone has been missed. Great effort getting back is wasted effort if we don't effectively pick up are assignments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One the absolute best books I've read in the past couple of years is <a href="https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">"Atomic Habits"</span></b></a> by <b><a href="https://jamesclear.com/about"><span style="color: #cc0000;">James Clear</span></a></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. It's a book that I think can help you in so many ways and I strongly urge you to pick up a copy. One of the stories that Clear shares is the "pointing and communicating" system used by the Japanese railway system:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coach Saban is about the process. What is being done at this particular moment to make us better. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It fascinates me to watch how Coach Saban never misses an opportunity to maintain the philosophy of process -- to hold strong the culture of daily improvement. The language and daily message to his team is critical to this process. This was true again at his weekly press conference where he explain the way they view an off week:</span></span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 119%;">Today we are excited to add two new segments to this year’s Gary Blair Coaching Academy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Billy Kennedy and his Texas A&M men’s basketball team</b> will conduct a full practice as part of the Academy schedule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since taking the reins of the program, Coach Kennedy has guided Texas A&M to an SEC title and three trips to the postseason, highlighted by a run to the 2016 Sweet 16 which matched the school’s deepest run in the NCAA Tournament. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 119%;"> ◄4 Complete Clinic Sessions featuring the entire Aggie Basketball staff and team.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 119%;"> ◄Two sessions with Hall of Famer Gary Blair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 119%;"> ◄Guest speakers Brendan Suhr and Jim Boone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Bendan Suhr’s career includes NBA stops with the Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks, New York Knicks, Toronto Raptors and Orlando Magic. Working with Chuck Daly, Suhr helped the Pistons to two World Championships. Surh was also the chief scout for the “Dream Team” in 1992 in Barcelona. College stints have included Fairfield, UCF and LSU. He is also the founder of Coaching U, one of the most dynamic clinics in the nation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a great passage on how much Bill Belichick values communication via<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gridiron-Genius-Championships-Building-Dynasties/dp/052557381X"> "Gridiron Genius" by Michael Lombardi</a>:</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">One of the most anticipated reads I've had in sometime was</span> <b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><a href="https://www.kevineastman.net/book/"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Kevin Eastman's "Why The Best Are The Best."</span></a> </span></b></span><span lang="en-US" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">And it didn't disappoint.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">I've known Kevin for over seven years and have heard him speak on numerous occasions including at Coach U and to our team at Texas A&M. Two things are going to happen when you hear Kevin speak -- you are going to gain knowledge and your are going to be inspired. The same is true with "Why The Best Are The Best."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">What is special about the book is that you just don't have to be a basketball player or coach to gain from it. You can participate or coach any sport and come away better. In fact, forget the athletic industry as a whole. If I worked with a group of people in any facet of life, this is a book that would help me to lead and build teams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">The book starts quick with Kevin's <i>"25 Power Words"</i> -- worth the price of the book alone. Here are just a couple of my favorites: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><b>1. Truth</b> - The ultimate “must have” for personal and team success; without it we’ll live in the world of frustration and regret.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">But competition is more than simply you against me. It is a mindset to bring the best that you have in you each day, no matter how things are going. Competitors get their reputations not from just playing or working hard; those are given in the world of competition. True competition comes in when you are willing to continue to give the best of what you have even when you are losing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><i>“Having respect in this league is one of the hardest things to do. It’s not just about how you perform but how hard you work. Hard work gives you respect.”</i> – Kevin Garnett<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've known <a href="https://basketballsmiles.wordpress.com/welcome/who-is-sam-nichols/"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sam Nichols</span></b></a> for around 20 years now -- whether he was working our basketball camps at LSU or running into him at Don Meyer's Coaching Academy. And while he was an outstanding coach, he's saved his best act for post retirement where is Founder and President of <a href="https://basketballsmiles.wordpress.com/"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Basketball Smiles</span></b></a>, a program of free basketball camps in the inner city playgrounds of the Bahamas. Below is a post by Sam with a great list on how to have successful practices:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recently I had a young coach ask me for some suggestions
on how to plan more efficient and productive practices. Here's a few ideas for
I came up with for coaches to consider to help you plan your practices. Believe
me, during my 33 years of coaching I learned there is an art to designing and
executing your daily practices to where they contribute successful team
development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hopefully, these thoughts will be helpful - here they
are, in no particular order:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1. You can't be good at everything.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I heard Jim Calhoun say this at a clinic years ago. He
said, "As a coach, pick out three things that you want to excel in, and
focus on them. And your practices should reflect these three priorities.
Another coach should be able to walk into your practices and be able to pick
out those three things based upon what you're doing in practice."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set priorities for your program and organize
your practices to reflect your priorities. One of my favorite quotes: "We
always find time for the things we put first." Decide what's important to
and frame your practices around those priorities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>2. Coach both the "What" and the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't just tell your players "What" to do, tell
them the "Why." Fundamentally, people "buy in" to the
"Why" of anything, and if you take time to explain to your players
the logic and reasoning behind your press or offensive philosophy, I believe
your practices will be more fruitful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This comes from one of my mentors - Coach Dale Brown who
always told me, "Be careful and not talk too much in practice - let them
practice their skills 90% of the time and you talk only 10% of the
time."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There's a difference between
teaching and overcoaching. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frankly, basketball is a game of performing under
pressure and some segments of practice must be framed with pressure with
resulting rewards for performing at a high level and consequences for poor
performance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I learned the value of this from my Dad who, as a
baseball coach, had us practice "situations" every day. Coaches
cannot do all of the thinking for their players, nor make all of the
pressure-packed decisions for their players - players have to think for
themselves, and situational segments develop the confidence in players to where
they believe they can make good decisions in games, because they have practiced
similar situations in practice. Set up game-like situations on a regular basis
and make them a routine - it will pay off!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shuffle your lineup during situations - late in the game,
chances are, not all five of your starters will be in the game for one reason
or another, so work situations with different lineups.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a loud gym in a meaningful game, your players won't be
able to hear you "coach every dribble," so, especially in situational
drills, keep your mouth shut and don't blow your whistle to correct every
mistake. Instead, be quiet, and make your players work together to come up with
a solution. Pat Riley says, "You must be a participant in your own
rescue." Make them think - get themselves out of trouble - it will build
their self-confidence and sense of teamwork. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you want your players to play hard in games and give
extra effort, you must praise and reward it on a daily basis in practice. As
Don Meyer was fond of saying, "Your players will reproduce what you emphasize."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I encourage coaches, "Catch your players
being good!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, we all
do a much better job catching them making mistakes. Let's balance that by intentionally
praising extra effort. As you do this, that extra effort will be contagious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the season, especially during Conference play,
it's a great temptation to spend a disproportional amount of time on your
opponent's offense and defense, out-of-bounds plays, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The result - you neglect your stuff - your press
break, your offensive sets, your defensive, then of course, on game day your
execution suffers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As my Dad was fond of saying, "Know why you're
doing, what you're doing." Practice time is too precious to waste, so
don't just run drills that you saw at a clinic - run drills with a purpose.
Utilize drills that have a direct correlation to your offensive and defensive
schemes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't get overconfident and complacent when you have a
good practice and everything clicks, and don't overreact and burn the gym down
when you have a bad practice. The season is a grind and there is an ebb and
flow to practices - you'll have some great ones, and from time to time your
practices will, frankly, stink. A great coach knows that every day is a new day
- build on the great practices, and flush the bad ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As much as we would like to have our players total focus
and attention, we have to remember that they (and you) bring the sum of their
entire day with them to practice. Develop relationships with your players so,
hopefully, you can identify when one of them is having a bad day with issues
maybe unrelated to basketball, but is affecting their performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's also important to know yourself - if
you're tired, on edge, etc., it can make you a miserable coach during practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I heard Coach K say one time, "When you
are tired as a coach, you fall back into bad coaching habits."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So true!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some days, your practices get bogged down and it's better
to just shut down and call it a day! It's not your fault, it's not your players
fault - as I said, the season is a grind, and there are times it's not going to
be a productive day, so shut it down and re-group the next day. For sure, some
days, when it gets bogged down, you have to push through and keep going, but
that's where you must know your players and use good judgement. But, don't be
afraid to know its time to send them home for today!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>14. The Three Laws of Learning - Repetition, Repetition,
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not every player “gets it” the first time or the tenth time, and if
something is important, you must organize your practices where repetition of
that skill ii systematic. You can’t teach skill development on a “every now and
then” basis – if you want your players to learn something, you have to teach it
over and over and over again! Repetition is the key to knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>14. "See everything - overlook a great deal -
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is one of my favorite quotes of
all time and I had it written on every daily practice plan because I tended to
"See everything - overlook nothing - correct everything." I finally discovered that seeing every
mistake and correcting it was counterproductive to what I was really wanting to
develop in my players - individually and as a team. When I learned to relax and
show some mercy, patience, and understanding, the entire atmosphere in practice
improved and so much more was accomplished. I found a balance - I could still
hold my players to a high standard of accountability, but I could do that with
a lot less pressure on me and them! We
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<span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or are you like the coffee? The coffee changes the water, the element that causes it pain. When the water reaches its boiling point, the coffee achieves its best flavor. If you are like the coffee bean, when things get worse you react better and make the things around you better.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How much has <a href="http://jongordon.com/"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Jon Gordon</span></b></a> influenced me? The picture above is a toy bus that sits on my desk as a reminder that I'm in charge of my own energy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can remember the first time I met Jon though I'm sure he won't recall it because of the thousands he's met. I was an assistant coach at the University of Central Florida and was walking through our building and came upon my friend Brendan Suhr who was talking to someone I had not met. Brendan grabbed me and introduced to me to Jon and the three of us talked for about 30 minutes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now here's the thing about Jon -- you can't have a conversation with him no matter how short or how long and not come away juiced up about life. His enthusiasm is set on max and it's genuine. His other gift is that he listens with the intent to understand. He cares.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next day I went to Brendan's office and said "who is this Jon guy?" Brendan asked me if I'd read <i>The Energy Bus. </i> I told him I hadn't and he encouraged me to run out and grab a copy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bam! Jon Gordon fan for life. The hardest question to answer? What's your favorite Jon Gordon book? Every book is so unique and impactful that depending upon what you are going through in life will factor into what you book you like the most at that time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Energy Bus</i> is even more special when you learn that 30 publishers turned down the book. He literally had to live out the lessons of the book to see it to its unbelievable success. I always keep an extra copy on my desk for instances when I think someone would benefit from reading it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our teams in the past have read several of Jon's books including this year's team which read <i>The Power of A Positive Team</i>. Tomorrow, at our first team meeting, they will turn in their reports on the book and we will talk about the lessons we've garnered. Two years ago, we read <i>The Hard Hat</i> together -- an amazing book on being a great teammate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, Jon was on our campus where he talked to our coaches and support staff this morning and he will speak to our student-athletes tonight. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This morning I was blessed to come away with five pages of notes and will share just a few of Jon's messages:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jon started by telling us he was a "student first, teacher second." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In regard to your team or organization, "are you a contagious germ or Vitamin C?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the <i>Energy Bus</i> first game out, it wasn't carried in a single book store in the USA. So Jon set up a 28 city tour -- paid for by himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Keep you vision alive and it will keep you alive."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jon pointed out that most runners quit a marathon around the 20th mile. They are tired yet still not close enough to see the end in sight. He challenged us to find out what our "20th mile was" and to confront it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">#1 Predictor of success is grit. And the key to grit? Connectivity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great teams have collective belief. The best leaders transfer belief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">#1 mistake is to allow negativity to exist. You must deal with, transform it, or relieve it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rules without relationships create rebellion. Also, tough-love will only work when the love comes first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Athletics are a training ground for life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And my favorite take away from this morning: "Your identity does not come from your performance. It comes from who you are on the inside."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you haven't experience the growth opportunity from reading Jon's books I can't recommend it strongly enough. You will not only become a better coach, but a better person. A great way to start is by <a href="http://jongordon.com/"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">visiting Jon's website</span></b></a> where you can see all his books. You can also read his <a href="http://jongordon.com/useful-tools/newsletters/"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">newsletter</span></b></a> as well as sign up for a <a href="https://visitor.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001Ojk9HcnX7iUuJG-8MK3lph18pHTPNuuaaCu94f7zhfYZzVvN6o3VZraHXj3OEo8K_fo97A9o3ctwGbOMrSncmA%3D%3D"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">newsletter</span></b></a>.</span><br />
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