We're playing good basketball or we're not. Good teams do what good teams do...they leverage advantages to score and limit opportunities for opponents. "We make our habits and our habits make us."
Yet there is a corollary, often when good teams lose, they stray from their "normal play" and display losing habits. A bad team's features become a good team's bugs.
What happens?
- Loss of Focus
- Selfishness (lack of team play)
- Sloth (lack of effort)
- Softness (lack of toughness)
- Inattention to detail
- Focus
- Attention to detail
- Team play
- Championship effort
- Toughness
- Bad shot selection
- Poor passing
- Turnovers
- Defensive mental errors and physical mistakes
- Allowing easy baskets with bad transition, fouling, poor blockouts, lack of communication
We attack based on the situation.
— Reid Ouse (@reidouse) July 12, 2024
In a 1v1 situation, we attack our defender.
In a 2v1 situation, we attack space. pic.twitter.com/amlCl6b1GW
Lagniappe 3. Making better decisions requires playing a lot.
Decision-making is a skill.
— Reid Ouse (@reidouse) July 12, 2024
And we need to train that skill the same way we would with ball handling, shooting and finishing. pic.twitter.com/d1i9FxKihB
Lagniappe 4. Don't burn bridges.
One of the great mistakes in life is suffering for years because you didn't want to feel foolish for five minutes.
— James Clear (@JamesClear) July 11, 2024
-You don't want to apologize, so you let a relationship deteriorate.
-You're scared of the sting of rejection, so you don't ask for what you want.
-You fear…
