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Saturday, January 4, 2025

Basketball- “Know Where Your Feet Are”

Know your identity. Scorer. Facilitator. Rebounder. Primary defender. Coaches want ‘guys’ who impact winning. And you impact winning with specialized skill sets. A chosen few are superstars who impact the game in every way on both ends as "possession enders."

Knowing where your feet are means understanding and executing your role. That doesn't preclude expanding roles by growing your skills. It also allows you to "make the big time where you are." 

Jaylen Brown entered the NBA after a freshman season at Cal with elite athleticism and carried a reputation of "can't shoot." 

Brown was committed to becoming both an NBA star and leader. 

Fast forward to 2024. Brown expanded his game to become Finals NBA and SI NBA Player of the Year. Here's the Brave AI take:

Jaylen Brown: Jaylen Brown has been recognized as the SI NBA Player of the Year. He had a remarkable season, leading the Boston Celtics to the NBA Finals and winning the Finals MVP award. Brown’s on-court success, including averaging 23.4 points per game, and his off-court efforts, such as investing in his community and founding his own shoe company, 741 Performance, have burnished his credentials for this award.

Brown leveraged athleticism, intelligence, and desire into achievement and generational wealth. He wants to be considered one of the best two-way players in the world.



His cross-training workouts are legendary. 

As written in Chapter 2 of Napoleon Hill's  1937 classic, Think and Grow Rich "DREAMS ARE THE SEEDLINGS OF REALITY."

Players and coaches decide to be goal-focused or process-focused. Choose what works for you. 

Lagniappe. Concept for attack and counter... 

Lagniappe 2. Early on in his professional cricket career, Ed Smith in "Luck" wanted to dismiss the role of luck. Smith is unafraid of sarcasm. 

"The age of ultra-professionalism had arrived. And professionalism, of course, above all demands control. No longer would ‘anything be left to chance’ (chance was an awful relic of amateurism)."

Lagniappe 3. "The bank is always open." 
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