tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62107182690770824972024-03-18T18:13:30.406-07:00RonSenBasketballBasketball education, fundamentals, opinion, video and moreRon Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comBlogger3883125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-16251487355433427922024-03-17T21:30:00.000-07:002024-03-17T21:30:00.138-07:00Basketball: Teaching Points, Tigers Top Lions in Ivy Final <p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Every game shares teaching points. These are Columbia-centric although Princeton wins the Ivy title. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Gh6ROLifsBF9SaIbXh4VxlxgF2JSd1IZsPrIkOKsGFKx4YnGSUBQU_5FH_VpDHzAwkXLCIS2G-FaYLbBlnhGh0Btrcl7EalTxcTijOJdnOSgBI7g7Hbj7XISc8pFecpFpdzHOkHGDsCoqjmT23yPvtI8MJMN3J9uLS8so_GpZefpLTbdnzX3mClwxo_C/s1698/Screenshot%202024-03-17%20at%204.37.53%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="1698" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Gh6ROLifsBF9SaIbXh4VxlxgF2JSd1IZsPrIkOKsGFKx4YnGSUBQU_5FH_VpDHzAwkXLCIS2G-FaYLbBlnhGh0Btrcl7EalTxcTijOJdnOSgBI7g7Hbj7XISc8pFecpFpdzHOkHGDsCoqjmT23yPvtI8MJMN3J9uLS8so_GpZefpLTbdnzX3mClwxo_C/w491-h306/Screenshot%202024-03-17%20at%204.37.53%20PM.png" width="491" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The nightmare is already visible, doubling the post without enough help. </span><p></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xGu3jEYKdOY?start=3&end=8" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Princeton runs a horns guard cut reminiscent of 1986 Bird and Walton...but Columbia shuts it down. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xGu3jEYKdOY?start=32&end=37" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ball screen leads to draw two and then a three.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xGu3jEYKdOY?start=47&end=54" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Columbia scores on a BOB with great spacing via a Princeton defensive error. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xGu3jEYKdOY?start=91&end=97" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Dribble handoff into shifty individual effort and tough finish for the Lions. </span></div><div><br /></div></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xGu3jEYKdOY?start=105&end=111" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Great play design off a SLOB with a fantastic slipped cross-screen into a layup.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xGu3jEYKdOY?start=165&end=172" width="560"></iframe>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-5349199973056874572024-03-17T21:01:00.000-07:002024-03-17T21:01:00.134-07:00Basketball: Seek Greatness for the Exceptional Player<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie38AjhxNuTO5JVbBPCzT5iBGDwfpUIt1v-46qkcGyE4LMWNeKeOT6KB7A8dGBp_PaHQPTBvkuq609-XT6k9bx5cT-CMUCwU7P-P2MHwOzQYI0B4G2e-mBJRzzaC9VDcmIQmjS2D_8vxclbWF5kO5j4NuItphFKItBd5xq-plZn59EFXjsxhu0JeTSJz1l/s812/Screenshot%202023-12-30%20at%208.01.32%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="812" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie38AjhxNuTO5JVbBPCzT5iBGDwfpUIt1v-46qkcGyE4LMWNeKeOT6KB7A8dGBp_PaHQPTBvkuq609-XT6k9bx5cT-CMUCwU7P-P2MHwOzQYI0B4G2e-mBJRzzaC9VDcmIQmjS2D_8vxclbWF5kO5j4NuItphFKItBd5xq-plZn59EFXjsxhu0JeTSJz1l/s320/Screenshot%202023-12-30%20at%208.01.32%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coaching the exceptional player blends privilege and opportunity. And it happens rarely. What distinguishes the exceptional player from the other hundreds of players we coach?</span><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The list is incomplete.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">1. <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Ambition</i></b>. Influence expert Dan Pink describes qualities of autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Special players showed exceptional commitment from a young age. Autonomy informs 'self-starters'. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">2. <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Physical gifts</i></b>. Top players have at least two of three qualities - size, athleticism, and skill. Coaches can help with athleticism and skill, but coaches cannot transform players without inherent gifts. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">3. <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Curiosity</i></b>. Newell's mandate, "see the game" manifests as being in your notebook and regularly studying video. At higher levels, become your own coach, learning how to 'utilize strengths and to attack weaknesses'. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">4. <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Say, "Yes."</i></b> Opportunities arise for extra training, extra instruction, extra development. That implies the will to tolerate physical and mental fatigue. "Champions do extra," says James Kerr in <i>Legacy</i>. The exceptional player takes advantage to develop an edge. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">5. <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Mentoring</i></b>. Selected figures in history leveraged force of will to success, such as Abraham Lincoln. Mostly, "mentoring is the only shortcut to excellence." </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">6. <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Coachability</i></b>. Excellent players thirst for coaching. They translate listening into practice into high performance. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">7. <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Athletic training</i></b>. Few individuals, such as Bo Jackson, develop the strength, power, and endurance to excel without intense physical training. But the rest need focused development. On sites like Threads.net, readers can direct desired posts using the word, 'algorithm'. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">8. <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Multilevel scoring</i></b>. The game has evolved. Players need to score and facilitate scoring at all three levels. That requires instruction, tracking results, and competition. Knight's prohibition of 'free shooting' makes sense to reduce the dropoff between practice and live action. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">9. <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Resources</i></b>. Training, teams, and competition takes time and money. Strong family or external support help. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. 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<script async="" src="https://www.threads.net/embed.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. Get more direction with exit interviews. </span></div><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Players: If your coach doesn’t have an ind. meeting with you after the season ends, take the initiative & request one to:<br /><br />Reflect & evaluate past season<br />Discuss thoughts/concerns/expectations<br />Understand role<br />Choose 2-3 things to improve<br />Make a detailed plan to attack off-season</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Jon Beck (@CoachJonBeck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachJonBeck/status/1764707752104857794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p></p></div></div>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-39158340965507680642024-03-16T21:01:00.000-07:002024-03-16T21:01:00.142-07:00Basketball: Hidden Landmines<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coach Bob Knight said, "basketball is a game of mistakes." Many mistakes are obvious - passes thrown away, poor quality shots, missed free throws. We've all made these mistakes and had our players do the same. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Some mistakes appear less obvious to untrained eyes. Many fall under "basketball IQ."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Missed opportunities: </span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Failure to reject ball screens</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Failure to slip overplayed screens</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Failure to "look ahead" in transition</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Casual cutting creates no separation (less efficient possessions)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Unexploited mismatches </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Offense habitually initiated from sidelines</span></li></ul><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtblFr7YJtQTa5FjTgef6daN0nEUKouAl_eR2QQEBptXltzc0eaWINL7L9aCu96TCfNhIZiDFgwTumuBKZe9hFAfzudjasXbcLWoTpQuTckJ8iC-6Sp4O813Br0iLnq6y8H2j9wZrnqt9mxupBst29N04CgCKrAZ_zpomVYIt1cH6rVK3kBo1d-487mQbF/s724/Screenshot%202024-03-16%20at%207.23.33%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="724" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtblFr7YJtQTa5FjTgef6daN0nEUKouAl_eR2QQEBptXltzc0eaWINL7L9aCu96TCfNhIZiDFgwTumuBKZe9hFAfzudjasXbcLWoTpQuTckJ8iC-6Sp4O813Br0iLnq6y8H2j9wZrnqt9mxupBst29N04CgCKrAZ_zpomVYIt1cH6rVK3kBo1d-487mQbF/w396-h324/Screenshot%202024-03-16%20at%207.23.33%20PM.png" width="396" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The defense gets advantage by shrinking space, loading to the ball, which is magnified farther the more that offense runs from the sideline. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Opportunities created for opponents:</span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lack of communication</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Allowing opposition to get into their offense too easily. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Poor clock management including 2 for 1s end-of-quarter (shot clock) and misuse of tempo during comebacks and closing out games</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Live ball turnovers</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Poorly organized (numbers to the glass, shaping up, protecting the rim) or executed transition defense</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Allowing impact offensive players to get the ball too easily</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Excessive fouling including fouling perimeter shots and allowing opponent to get in the bonus early</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Where is the low hanging fruit? That will vary by team. Several "difference making" examples:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">1) Make it harder for opponent's scorers to get the ball and get it in their preferred locations. (Reduce EFG%)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">2) Clarify transition assignments and how many players go to the offensive boards. Transition points often change momentum. (Reduce EFG%)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">3) More urgent cutting</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">4) Reduced fouling should be a priority </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. Backdoor cuts can create high percentage shots. </span></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Spin Backdoor" is the most common backdoor play in high school that I saw through scouting - and a play we also run. <a href="https://t.co/qlEMuOYHm4">pic.twitter.com/qlEMuOYHm4</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Coach Gibson Pyper (@HalfCourtHoops) <a href="https://twitter.com/HalfCourtHoops/status/1768728809325404671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. Long closeouts create opportunity. </span></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">ATTACK closeouts.<br /><br /> <a href="https://t.co/qMREXsG9r6">pic.twitter.com/qMREXsG9r6</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Buckets Basketball (@BucketsBBALL1) <a href="https://twitter.com/BucketsBBALL1/status/1766071562686300241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 3. Slip-sliding away. </span></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It's difficult for me to not post a good slip <a href="https://t.co/Jcw8GmrSa6">pic.twitter.com/Jcw8GmrSa6</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Hoops Companion 🏀 Resources for Coaches (@Hoops_Companion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Hoops_Companion/status/1766132130487185825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-13926737877190071902024-03-15T21:01:00.000-07:002024-03-15T21:01:00.142-07:00Basketball: Optimism<div><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Learn optimism. </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>What is optimism?</i></b> Optimism is fuel. Fuel doesn't guarantee a smooth trip or pleasant destination. Fuel helps us complete the journey. </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Optimism is part of our controllables - attitude, choices, and effort. Optimism helps us start, keep going, and finish. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Optimism centers blind faith and crippling doubt. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Optimism forms part of the shield that helps us withstand pressure. In <i>Performing Under Pressure, </i>Weisinger and Pawliw-Fry construct a metaphorical "COTE of armor," comprised of confidence, optimism, tenacity, and enthusiasm.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Optimism benefits from periodic rewards, like wins at a slot machine. Tough to lose all the time and remain hopeful. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coach Sonny Lane assumed a losing basketball program in the summer of 1970. One of his first leadership moves was helping paint an outdoor court including a sign reading, "Tech Tourney, 1973." In 1973, he won his first sectional championship. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>What good is it?</i></b> Does optimism improve outcomes? </span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/new-evidence-that-optimists-live-longer/">Optimism improves longevity</a>. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Optimism produces "<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8907849/">fewer symptoms of </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8907849/">depression, higher levels of wellbeing, lower attrition rates, and stronger perceptions of social support.</a>" </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">Research showed "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-00278-019">positive correlation was observed between optimism and athletic performance</a>."</span></span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>How do we build optimism?</b></i> </span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Organization</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Preparation </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Focus </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Practice </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Psychological training </span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Optimism flows from confidence and in Bill Parcells' words, "confidence comes from proven success." </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Training helps us visualize successes (e.g. highlight reel), affirm identity (be a sharer and valued teammate), and performance (get after it every day at home, at work, and add value for others). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Optimism crosses time. Our past achievements predict our future performance. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A few quotes about optimism:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Extraordinary people are ordinary people making extraordinary decisions." - Sharon Pearson</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #04ff00;"><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #04ff00;">Summary: </i></b></span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #04ff00;">Optimism is our choice. </i></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #04ff00;">Optimism fuels our journey. </i></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #04ff00;">Optimists have better mental health. </i></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #04ff00;">Optimism produces better athletic performance.</i></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #04ff00;">Optimism helps performance under pressure. </i></b></span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. Cut hard and tight. Poor cutting is a big cause for offensive failure. </span></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Butt Cut"<br /><br />Rub the defender off the butt of the down screener on a hard curl to the basket <a href="https://t.co/WjVbL5qSpq">pic.twitter.com/WjVbL5qSpq</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Matt Hackenberg (@CoachHackGO) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachHackGO/status/1768268411740795314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2024</a></span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. Kobe mindset.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VSceuiPBpxY?si=w_2zZ4Yf41PXkCgZ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-20258912907047441032024-03-14T21:01:00.001-07:002024-03-14T21:01:00.143-07:00Basketball: We Tell Stories<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">We tell stories. Most are not 'consequential' in the big picture. Consequential implies meaningful, making a difference. Life embeds basketball lessons when we pay attention. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><b>Basketball leaves scars</b></i>. Some are physical, others psychological. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Always take the physical over the psychological scar. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">My first basketball injury was a fat upper lip on my own tooth in sixth grade on a rebounding collision. Geno Auriemma describes growing up poor in Northern Italy. He rolled into a fire and sustained abdominal burns. Basketball leaves scars. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Cold shooting</b></i>. During a late sixties Christmas vacation, we had a basketball game in Watertown, suburban Boston. They never turned the heat on. We wore coats on the bench and the chill frosted everyone's breath. I made three perimeter shots off the wooden backboard. My coach asked whether I was aiming for the board. Sam Jones was my favorite player. "The bank is always open." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>"C team."</i></b> I started coaching in 1999, starting a sixth grade "C" team because my daughters didn't earn slots on the "A" or "B" team. The team wasn't very good, nor was the coaching. I trained one of my twins as a point guard because I wanted her to learn passing. She became the second best passer on her high school club. The best was Shey Peddy, a future WNBA player. Their teams went 90-6 in high school. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>"Girl power."</i></b> Basketball teaches life lessons - sacrifice, hard work, competition, resilience, sportsmanship. Boys always had access to these lessons while girls were often relegated to second class. Empower yourselves. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>"History lessons."</i></b> Preach. Develop a portfolio of stories that teach principles. Lee's victory at Chancellorsville in 1863 taught winning against overwhelming odds. Arlene Blum's ascent of 8,000 meter Annapurna taught how women could summit with audacity and also succumb to fatal avalanches. Risk and reward travel together. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>"All politics is local,"</i></b> said Tip O'Neill. Whether it's about finding, keeping, or losing your job, politics matter. Sam Jackson reminds us, "Remember that the toes you step on today may be connected to the *** you have to kiss tomorrow."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>"<i>Endangered species.</i>"</b> The last fifty games I coached, I don't think the zebras determined the outcome of any. When our girls played well they had a chance. When they played less well or I coached poorly, we lost. Scapegoating referees happens far too often. Point fingers at ourselves first. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>"<i>Family matters.</i>"</b> Although coaching our children can bring joy, it's not automatic. Coaches can coach our children harder, so it can go either way.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihe-d4T7x2OopCZhrVMd-N_JoF6Zo3hTQPIlOQqY9ODPhhwUpZilbKVXqXMFmTOFb_POVTERQ53bEczgmF_swkObauLO8Vz6YJb1RlBx-zPew0YvQqAfDAE18-c-0OVTVgyMFymdlQk7E06gR9o9lqFm1eZjgKPCUIseFKZrqEcMZc5Yr3ZzQ4Pj3GOTgd/s512/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20at%2010.36.19%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="512" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihe-d4T7x2OopCZhrVMd-N_JoF6Zo3hTQPIlOQqY9ODPhhwUpZilbKVXqXMFmTOFb_POVTERQ53bEczgmF_swkObauLO8Vz6YJb1RlBx-zPew0YvQqAfDAE18-c-0OVTVgyMFymdlQk7E06gR9o9lqFm1eZjgKPCUIseFKZrqEcMZc5Yr3ZzQ4Pj3GOTgd/s320/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20at%2010.36.19%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">"</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Faith and patience</span></i></b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>" flank the peak</i></b> of Wooden's 'Pyramid of Success'. A copy watched over our locker room six decades ago. Coaching children demands belief and time. Inconsistency litters the courts of young kids. You'll ask how they can play so poorly in the morning and so well in the afternoon. Don't lose our minds over what we can't control. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>"Lost in space."</i></b> Most youth teams have poor spacing, allowing defenses to shrink space. Rather than make excuses about zone defense, make a commitment to space and to disrupt space with shot fakes and ball fakes. </span></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ln3sbIG8VlM?si=Iy8abSf98L3gUbaZ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Watch for life lessons wherever you go and help players write great narratives. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. Learn to self-regulate, from <a href="https://www.threads.net/@booksforaspirants/post/C4aXkG_Sv5A">@booksforaspirants</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Too many people self-medicate with alcohol or substances. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfLEJQHqBWCCMW_KCo99AtUStvR5KsYWt0kgtImy4lqLjkQHF41DF5agUBmp9hFvN96FjUXWw2SHU7_RWo5sSEv_3C06gO-9oXG-NlgoSYOKwVHh9qcGxSAW1qy73BSui49C_nWaLrEbCMntzGCOy0eaG5gvtIk__33ohFwzTLn_r0S2h41VfLho8UP9U/s974/Screenshot%202024-03-13%20at%207.36.13%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="974" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfLEJQHqBWCCMW_KCo99AtUStvR5KsYWt0kgtImy4lqLjkQHF41DF5agUBmp9hFvN96FjUXWw2SHU7_RWo5sSEv_3C06gO-9oXG-NlgoSYOKwVHh9qcGxSAW1qy73BSui49C_nWaLrEbCMntzGCOy0eaG5gvtIk__33ohFwzTLn_r0S2h41VfLho8UP9U/w398-h346/Screenshot%202024-03-13%20at%207.36.13%20PM.png" width="398" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. Learn this skill...even if it's to play inside-out. </span><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Rick Majerus on Keys to Feeding the Post:<br />1) Your Man - How is he defending you?<br />2) Post Players Defender - How is he being defended?<br />3) The Helpside Defense - Where is it coming from?<br />* Post Player must Yell for the Ball, and you cannot yell too loud! <a href="https://t.co/VuuV8gqxQf">pic.twitter.com/VuuV8gqxQf</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— JIM BOONE 🏀 (@CoachJimBoone) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachJimBoone/status/1766593414592635080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-75892067266737626522024-03-13T21:01:00.000-07:002024-03-13T21:01:00.250-07:00Basketball: Third Rails<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/opinion/18iht-edsafmon.4632394.html">Social Security is the third rail</a> of American politics. Touch it, you're dead." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What are the third rails of basketball? What areas are so toxic as to foster fatality? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">1. <b><i>Politics</i></b>. Nobody can isolate politics from policy. Carl Pierson's <i>The Politics of Coaching </i>belongs on every coach's bookshelf. Don't be undermined by what you don't know. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">2. <b><i>Work-life balance</i></b>. Finding a balance to maintain healthy family relationships challenges every coach. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">3. <b><i>Isolation</i></b>. Coaches need help. Whether it's formal like Coach Calipari's "Personal Board of Directors" or less so with mentors, assistants, or other confidants, hear other voices. Good ideas come from anywhere. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">4. <b><i>Acrimony with parents</i></b>. A state Coach of the Year coach told me a parent literally "bought out" his contract with a generous donation. Even a hired gun can get taken out by bigger munitions. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">5. <b><i>Playing time</i></b>. The Unholy Trinity of minutes, role, and recognition dominate perception. Even with the wisdom of Solomon, you will not be able to divide the three to everyone's satisfaction. A coach who won multiple state championships told me he got a phone call from a parent FIVE MINUTES into the season complaining about playing time. He turned the phone off from then on. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">6. <b><i>Strategy</i></b>. Unless your name is Krzyzewski or Summitt, you'll be second-guessed by people with only fractional basketball knowledge and experience. That doesn't account for game management. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">7. <i><b>Lack of discipline</b></i>. Players seldom work to undermine coaches through on-court actions. But all too often, off the court actions can be coaches' undoing. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">8. <b><i>On-court player decisions</i></b>. It's the math. Teams need a maximal number of winning possessions to succeed. Turnovers and bad shot selection are the undoing of too many well-meaning coaches. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. Create advantage. </span></p><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Essentially good zone offense boils down to creating 1v2s <a href="https://t.co/JdC34zUyPC">pic.twitter.com/JdC34zUyPC</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Matt Hackenberg (@CoachHackGO) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachHackGO/status/1766833944853667969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2024</a></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. Rip it. </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">When teaching rip-throughs, consider the following:<br /><br />- rip low (typically best practice)<br /><br />- rip high (if their hand is already down there)<br /><br />- rip violently (break their forearm if they are in the way)<br /><br />- rip with purpose (GO somewhere)<br /><br />- fake rip and go the other way</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Hoops Companion 🏀 Resources for Coaches (@Hoops_Companion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Hoops_Companion/status/1766621964871802999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span>Lagniappe 3. Urgency flows from coaches to players' situations. </span> </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Don’t confuse Sense of Urgency with negativity….<br /><br />So many players have trainers now… it’s a style of coaching that doesn’t necessarily need urgency. It needs patience, persistence, accountability. <br /><br />But when players transition to their season, there becomes a sense of urgency… <a href="https://t.co/YbWUkjbhgQ">pic.twitter.com/YbWUkjbhgQ</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Steve Dagostino (@DagsBasketball) <a href="https://twitter.com/DagsBasketball/status/1767897657144385570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-79985022038785367422024-03-12T21:30:00.000-07:002024-03-12T21:30:00.128-07:00Basketball: Fast Five (Teaching Highlights)<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Video is the truth machine. Truth on.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The midrange game works for Ayton. </span> </p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kxfenPt72UM?start=25&end=30" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Pritchard 'draws 2' and opens up White for a trey. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kxfenPt72UM?start=41&end=47" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Sleight of hand. White drives and defenders prepare to block his right hand but he switches at the last second. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kxfenPt72UM?start=183&end=187" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Help your teammate. Horford interferes with the help on a Tatum drive. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kxfenPt72UM?start=239&end=244" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A switch turns into a dunk for the Blazers. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kxfenPt72UM?start=267&end=272" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The J's have played together long enough to improvise with flair.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kxfenPt72UM?start=293&end=298" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Give-and-go as simple actions work. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kxfenPt72UM?start=428&end=433" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Work on a quick release. Sam Hauser's is his career calling card. We worked on a drill would slam the ball down, catch and release as quickly as possible. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kxfenPt72UM?start=486&end=492" width="560"></iframe>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-85747689633404542852024-03-12T21:01:00.000-07:002024-03-12T21:01:00.134-07:00Basketball: Be Eclectic and Choose Your Program Values and Priorities<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Kansas State football coach transformed a football program, centering his approach around <a href="https://thedailycoach.substack.com/p/bill-snyders-16-principles">16 behaviors</a>. Players received a laminated card with these values. I imagine many still carry theirs around. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNNSv3ynBHaMXJzj-MIh1EaEjIVtMsESzIOyYnOewvqKKMb3w6gzUgw1a3OBAQkn_OhtJ93IB6DOZLDTWHeNg0C8qJGVOBY70L21znBCaC-bbziLXdy_MOc3TGt3i8dS3UdSGMVuvmwnjGjXCV_EHuiCC0X3jTBlVzwR6uC_Vk4u7xRoDAgbbCDDuKZJQ7/s1304/Screenshot%202024-02-12%20at%207.10.18%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1304" data-original-width="748" height="721" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNNSv3ynBHaMXJzj-MIh1EaEjIVtMsESzIOyYnOewvqKKMb3w6gzUgw1a3OBAQkn_OhtJ93IB6DOZLDTWHeNg0C8qJGVOBY70L21znBCaC-bbziLXdy_MOc3TGt3i8dS3UdSGMVuvmwnjGjXCV_EHuiCC0X3jTBlVzwR6uC_Vk4u7xRoDAgbbCDDuKZJQ7/w413-h721/Screenshot%202024-02-12%20at%207.10.18%20AM.png" width="413" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ask ourselves, can we consolidate and simplify these values. After all, it's hard to remember a list of 16. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">1. 49er coach Bill Walsh demanded a "<i><b style="background-color: #04ff00;">Standard of Performance</b></i>."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">2. Don Meyer reduced his to <i><b style="background-color: #04ff00;">PUSH-T</b></i>, Passion, Unity, Servant Leadership, Humility, and Thankfulness. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">3. Kevin Durant awakens asking, "<i><b style="background-color: #04ff00;">How can I improve today?</b></i>"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">4. Samuel L. Jackson informs, "<i><b style="background-color: #04ff00;">Bring the best version of yourself today</b></i>." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">5. Steve Kerr <a href="https://ronsenbasketball.blogspot.com/2017/06/steve-kerr-leadership-concepts.html">reduces his philosophy</a> to <i><b>MINDSET, CULTURE, and MENTORS</b></i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">6. Use the <i><b style="background-color: #04ff00;">THINK</b></i> model when speaking - is it TRUE, HELPFUL, INSPIRING, NECESSARY, KIND? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">7. Be mindful. Be present. Coach K says, "<i><b style="background-color: #04ff00;">Next play</b></i>." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">8. Investigative journalist Bob Woodward lives to "seek the <b><i style="background-color: #04ff00;">best available version of the truth</i></b>." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span>9. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/opinion/sunday/david-brooks-the-moral-bucket-list.html">David Brooks</a> says focus on <i><b style="background-color: #04ff00;">EULOGY VALUES</b></i> over RESUME VALUES...a "<i><b style="background-color: #04ff00;">moral bucket list</b></i>." "</span><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #363636;">I came to the conclusion that wonderful people are made, not born — that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments." Brooks described himself as a 'narcissistic blowhard'. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">10. Benjamin Franklin shared a list of virtues, unfortunately lengthy and equally difficult to achieve. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdzz4LucMj31DUQymGjrPguSaC99uX7pSN3LodtBiRMdwq2fEEUDjzjU0wBqhO05xGyINFoQ4vqyYGCTLiJmgsP8aJAitfZBg3nXbixHtPCnzm5t2Aut8ZZXE98wkuIOSTpimluwUWX_HkjLf-FMyrk9LA69EoalKGvja6kbeV_vjvyu2kJX6iwKFGiXvU/s1266/Screenshot%202024-02-12%20at%207.30.36%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1266" data-original-width="1104" height="730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdzz4LucMj31DUQymGjrPguSaC99uX7pSN3LodtBiRMdwq2fEEUDjzjU0wBqhO05xGyINFoQ4vqyYGCTLiJmgsP8aJAitfZBg3nXbixHtPCnzm5t2Aut8ZZXE98wkuIOSTpimluwUWX_HkjLf-FMyrk9LA69EoalKGvja6kbeV_vjvyu2kJX6iwKFGiXvU/w558-h730/Screenshot%202024-02-12%20at%207.30.36%20AM.png" width="558" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The point? Everyone has a different set of priorities. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Simple is hard. My suggestion? </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Model excellence." Choose elements that resonate for you. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. How much are we invested? </span></p><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This Mike Norvell speech after their Orange Bowl loss is one of my favorites. <br /><br />Every single word. Nothing but the truth.<br /><br />“Hard work doesn’t guarantee success…But it will absolutely put you in the best position to achieve it.”<br /><br />(🎥 via <a href="https://twitter.com/ZBlostein247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ZBlostein247</a>)<a href="https://t.co/0Qw7AQaUOe">pic.twitter.com/0Qw7AQaUOe</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness (@coachajkings) <a href="https://twitter.com/coachajkings/status/1765505361107120251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2024</a></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. Some players see the world through the prism of "numbers." That needs retraining.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Recruiters look at:<br /><br />1. Your attitude.<br /><br />2. How you treat your teammates/coach.<br /><br />3. Your body language on the bench.<br /><br />4. Your hustle.</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Coach Mac 🏀 (@BballCoachMac) <a href="https://twitter.com/BballCoachMac/status/1764833712435282162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2024</a></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">3. Lagniappe 3. This is a bottom line business. </span> </p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“If you play well, you get extended minutes. If you don’t, they have to go to somebody else.” - Dawn Staley <br /><br />Basketball at the highest level is a results driven business & the best coaches run their programs with no hidden agendas<br /><br />(Via <a href="https://twitter.com/amanda_1815?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@amanda_1815</a> 🎥)<br /><br /> <a href="https://t.co/z7a07F8sA5">pic.twitter.com/z7a07F8sA5</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Hoop Herald (@TheHoopHerald) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheHoopHerald/status/1766630269677625642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><span style="font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-86707581736974215292024-03-11T21:01:00.000-07:002024-03-11T21:01:00.123-07:00Basketball and other Animals<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Sport overflows with metaphorical animal references - king of the jungle, ruling the roost, 600 pound gorillas. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">We anthropomorphize the beasts and ascribe animal attributes to athletes.</span></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BlF9GpCQ8Ks?si=4d6oBbWBKg9EoXo9" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Chris Paul plies the 'snake dribble' to create space.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8kxXLwvyYgU?si=BB558eFK_KTEfxOR" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Blend balance and power with an exaggerated 'crow hop'. </span></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/meXX2JBqSl0?si=D-yb0WIui8D-kCF6" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Offenses catch defenses unaware with the 'blind pig'. </span></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/otIAxfJ0UTc?si=i6B47yDREMMzS3fd" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Everyone played H-O-R-S-E. Curry and Durant play P-I-G. </span></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hXcq5--9bH8?si=FJiAd_Y-qozKLQ1-" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Players use the 'crab dribble' to protect the ball.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Other animal references exist, too. </span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Of a gritty player, "he has a lot of dog in him."</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Teams that play an overly physical, dirty style play "gorilla ball." </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A player responsible for defeat wears the 'goat horns'.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">An out of control player is a "bull in a China shop." </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Mismatch, "mouse in the house." </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Win by getting a bunch of gym rats on your team. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Give the zebras a break. An African proverb says, 350 zebras must die so that one lion may live."</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Do you have a 'spirit animal'? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. 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<script async="" src="https://www.threads.net/embed.js"></script><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. Chris Oliver shows how another way to get inside position. </span></p><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">One of the easiest ways to get the ball inside we found was using this action.<br /><br />A high ball screen, either use it or reject it, depending on where the low post matchup is, and time the seal to the pass angle. If help in takes away space, easy kick to the ball side corner. <a href="https://t.co/QgVeiG2jS4">pic.twitter.com/QgVeiG2jS4</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Chris Oliver (@BBallImmersion) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBallImmersion/status/1764727793605112078?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 3. Majerus. </span><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What made Rick Majerus so incredibly successful: <br /><br />1-No slippage in his daily approach. <br /><br />2-Constant emphasis on film, practice, and preparation. <br /><br />3-Brilliant teacher of the game and knew what he wanted to teach. <br /><br />4. Paragraphs in practice-phrases in game. <br /><br />5-Relentless in… <a href="https://t.co/QaIUnLyyUS">pic.twitter.com/QaIUnLyyUS</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Paul Biancardi (@PaulBiancardi) <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulBiancardi/status/1764668384271114635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2024</a></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 4. Stop to separate. </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Stopping is the most efficient way to create space.<br /><br />That doesn’t mean your dribble needs to end - you have options:<br /><br />🔘 Shot<br />🔘 Reset to Attack<br />🔘 Reset to Cross<br />🔘 Reset to Pull <a href="https://t.co/KOuQfSRxqS">pic.twitter.com/KOuQfSRxqS</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Reid Ouse (@reidouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/reidouse/status/1766888013039108553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-73452695394862357352024-03-10T21:01:00.000-07:002024-03-10T21:01:00.135-07:00Basketball: Philotomo<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philotimo">Philotomo</a> is a Greek word meaning <i>honor and loyalty</i>. Wikipedia describes it, "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In its simplest form, the term means conscientiously honoring one's responsibilities and duties, and not allowing one's honor, dignity, and pride to be sullied."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><i><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/let-their-words-do-the-talking/201508/philotimo-greek-word-without-meaning-very-meaningful">Psychology Today</a></i> describes it as, "</span><span style="color: #2c2d30;">that deep-seated awareness in the heart that motivates the good that a person does." It advises, "</span></span><span face=""Proxima Nova Regular", Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #2c2d30;">behaviors are not only a reflection of yourself but a reflection of your family, your community, and your country. Take pride in what you do simply because you have taken the time and effort to do it."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Proxima Nova Regular", Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #2c2d30;">As a team member, <i>represent</i>. Behavior reflects who you are - attitudes, beliefs, and values. In <i>Legacy, </i>James Kerr explains how the All-Blacks are challenged to "leave the jersey in a better place." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Proxima Nova Regular", Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #2c2d30;">General MacArthur charged West Point graduates to remain faithful to "duty, honor, country." </span></span></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LsFTCRextoo?si=SesR2zLBuUzfUTTq" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2c2d30;">The <i>Prime Video</i> documentary <i>Giannis</i>, implies that <i>philotomo</i> explains Antetokounmpo's decision to extend his contract in smaller-market Milwaukee. It became his second home. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2c2d30;">Aspire to live the values associated with philotomo. Reflect on high-character individuals who fit the description. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2c2d30;">Bill Russell's career and life showed unfailing commitment to racial justice. He shared, "my ego demands the success of my team." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2c2d30;">Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet member under FDR, showed a lifelong commitment to worker rights, enacting child labor laws, and in large part helped to establish the middle class. They became her philotomo. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2c2d30;">In Sam Walker's <i><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/captain-class-six-lessons-takeaways-richard-tomlin/">The Captain Class</a>, </i>he described team captains whose personality and leadership drove elite teams to high performance. "</span></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Buried inside an obscure 1997 clinical psychology textbook called Aversive Interpersonal Behaviors, there is a chapter titled “Blowhards, Snobs, and Narcissists: Interpersonal Reactions to Excessive Egotism.” The paper concluded that self-centered <i>people who project arrogance through their speech and body language tend to be viewed less favorably by others and can weaken a group’s cohesion</i>. The author of this was Timothy Duncan."</span></span></p><p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>Live philotomo and prosper</i>. </span></span></p><p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. "Rebound and outlet" helps convert one successful possession into another. Symmetry demands defense find ways to stop it. </span></span></p><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Honestly the “Rebound & Outlet” concept is the most important element in transition offense… <br /><br />I found myself reteaching this constantly this year. <a href="https://t.co/ELSHLYzfk1">https://t.co/ELSHLYzfk1</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Michael Lynch (@CoachLynch_21) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachLynch_21/status/1761586178585760036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. When your time comes, are you ready? <br /></span></span><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Tom Brady said, "I thought I would never get a chance to play, until one time I did, because I was prepared and the opportunity presented itself."<br /><br />Opportunity favors those who are ready for them.<br />• Are you prepared?<br />• Are you confident in yourself?<br />• Have you done the work?… <a href="https://t.co/HjIuNRUO58">pic.twitter.com/HjIuNRUO58</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness (@coachajkings) <a href="https://twitter.com/coachajkings/status/1761564004554564025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2c2d30;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2c2d30;"><br /></span></span></p>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-21034846886621175022024-03-10T06:33:00.000-07:002024-03-10T06:33:47.903-07:00Basketball - Thinking Causes Pain and Gain<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"<span color="inherit" style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.dreshalovric.com/campaigns/view-campaign/r_Uz5jgV32StdkOxNH6qxg4D9COVwD_oUuDaJrofAzRG8x5S_bOPnAeo-pjcdM1RrRbFpelEl0DiazOS7z37IdZJxH3zpl3O">Intelligent thinkers are open to talk about anything</a>, especially those issues which are unable to hold a single and unwavering truth.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span color="inherit" style="background-color: white;">Where there is great divide, there is opportunity for great intellectual exploration."</span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Controversies abound in basketball, if we're honest. A few examples:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Who is the GOAT? </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Who is the best player in the game today? </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What is the role for zone defense in youth basketball? </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What is the best way to train young players? </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What is the role for a core curriculum for young players? </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Is there a proper ratio among practice and games in development? </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Has the game become too favorable for offense? </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Should we have universal shot clock? </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Is the NBA All-Star game too broken to fix? </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Has the NIL gone too far or far enough? </span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Dr. Esha Lovric also shares this in her Sunday missive, "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #313131;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>Most of the time is it easier to believe what is easiest to believe." </i>This reminds me of the quote, "you are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts." </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #313131;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #313131; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">I know that no stone tablets ever descended to any hallowed hardwood in any almighty arena. That affirms the value of Professor Adam Grant's <i>Think Again, </i>advising us to keep a 'rethinking scorecard." </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #313131; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #313131; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">We were weaned at the teat of "defense wins championships" and defense got me maximal minutes as a high school senior. </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #313131; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #313131; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ijIgvUUErA3KdUuYHsxFfU1xUykgKzILn6XHY5nEXuT0p9DDK0dM1L_qpquFKaDuMg6ezByIigbzWnEaXaHD1tETNpxnJJzn_ZCSsOzUP-UaJ2RCvkmIpkiW-vJ06fWfcRYbMTFpXW3bOrZkLifiSuvdUSp1MK28LfOWtcOcoa9KPyh_vLb0k3n6D1EW/s1042/Screenshot%202024-03-10%20at%209.21.28%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="656" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ijIgvUUErA3KdUuYHsxFfU1xUykgKzILn6XHY5nEXuT0p9DDK0dM1L_qpquFKaDuMg6ezByIigbzWnEaXaHD1tETNpxnJJzn_ZCSsOzUP-UaJ2RCvkmIpkiW-vJ06fWfcRYbMTFpXW3bOrZkLifiSuvdUSp1MK28LfOWtcOcoa9KPyh_vLb0k3n6D1EW/w375-h526/Screenshot%202024-03-10%20at%209.21.28%20AM.png" width="375" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Never an All-League player, I lacked the burden of carrying a team. Six decades of basketball study teaches the <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">ascent of offense and the priority of preaching basic to advanced individual and team offensive concepts</i></b>. That's the highest "rethinking" item on my belief scorecard. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Lagniappe. The ball has energy. <br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">This sequence is this team. Pure joy to watch! <a href="https://t.co/BUQwGPIdoF">https://t.co/BUQwGPIdoF</a></p>— Darin 'Coach' Johnston (@AnIowaCoach) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnIowaCoach/status/1766653815237829007?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><span style="background-color: white;">Lagniappe 2. Advanced levels demand advanced approaches. </span></span><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">One of the hardest things for young players to understand is how well good teams scout <br /><br />“When you’re playing good teams, you run your play, and a lot of times the play doesn’t work!”<br /><br />(Via <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamRHJAZ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TeamRHJAZ</a> 🎥)<br /><br /> <a href="https://t.co/rW9xHwhrkt">pic.twitter.com/rW9xHwhrkt</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Hoop Herald (@TheHoopHerald) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheHoopHerald/status/1766630406697226608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2024</a></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #313131;">Lagniappe 3. Iverson applied. </span></span></p></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Saw this today, had to show the world…<br />Must add to the coaching 💼‼️ <a href="https://t.co/70XNc6MRJ6">pic.twitter.com/70XNc6MRJ6</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Chris Dorsey (@GentsCoachD) <a href="https://twitter.com/GentsCoachD/status/1766638713142960500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><div><span style="color: #313131; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><p></p>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-87345274603918390932024-03-09T21:01:00.000-08:002024-03-09T21:01:00.147-08:00Basketball: Closing Out Games<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Our lives become stories. Stories share triumphs and tragedies, victor and vanquished. How games end define a large part.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">No article informs the 'be-all, end-all' of late game management, just sharing ideas. Mom would say, "who died and made you king?" Nothing has changed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">1. <i>It's more than that</i>. Everyone harps on events of the final moments or the last play. A local club lost by a point years ago, a final missed shot. But they had fallen behind 4-0 in the first minute, twice failing to block out and allowing a pair of putbacks. Games are won and lost over their entirety with bad shots, turnovers, wasted possessions, missed free throws. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">2. <i>Manage time</i>. Teams need the ability to manage tempo, playing faster or slower with offensive and defensive delay games. Players learn to play based on time, score, and situation by practicing. Create situations such as leading by five with two minutes to go (with or without the ball) and playing them out. Add constraints like no shots allowed during a timed possession. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Part of managing time is having timeouts. Dean Smith set an example with the goal of having three timeouts for the final four minutes. Timeouts allow for rest, substitution, strategic change, and special situations. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">3. <i>Win this possession</i>. Part of putting the ball into play is having a reliable inbounder. Getting the ball in safely comes first and opportunistically follows. Develop an inbounder whose vision, decision, and execution you trust.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">4. <i>Get stops (Jordans)</i>. Excellent teams understand the need to get "Jordans" stops. Play defense as though everyone earns a pair of "Air Jordans" when they get a key stop. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">5. <i>Dog days</i>. Tom Hellen has a saying, "teams that can't shoot free throws last as long in the postseason as dogs that chase cars." Find ways to grow guys who make free throws in crunch time. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">6. <i>"Trust but verify." </i>Everyone must be on the same page. One player who doesn't know their role can spoil the meal. Unless the close and late situations are practiced, execution and results will suffer.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">7. <i>"Foul for profit." </i>If strategic fouling is necessary, be in position to do so by approaching but not exceeding the required foul limit. If you have no fouls and need five, valuable time will expire. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">8. <i>Win special situations</i>. We finished the final fifteen minutes of practice with specials - three possession games beginning with BOB, SLOB, ATO, or free throw. On any inbounds play, the action starts the moment the ball is handed to the passer. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">9. <i>Identify mismatches</i>. I presume that well-coached teams with switch close and late. That favors pick-and-roll and screens with small on big or vice versa. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">10.<i>Whom do you trust? </i>My coach taught, "It's not who starts the game, it's who finishes." Earn your coaches' trust to earn the chance to succeed or fail during crunch time. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coaches are going to receive criticism, regardless of plan. One told me of a parent who confronted him because the parent's son didn't get the last shot. An open shot was less desired than a shot for one's own DNA line. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. </span></p><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">10 Coaching Skills All Coaches Should Have.<br /><br />Coaching goes beyond knowing the game. It is so much more dynamic.<br /><br />Here are 10 skills all coaches need.<br /><br />1. Communication<br />Always remember, "Where there is a void in communication, negativity fills it." Coaches need to talk clearly and…</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Greg Berge (@gb1121) <a href="https://twitter.com/gb1121/status/1765348998116769819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2024</a></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Pat Riley said, "A culture is simply a shared vision of what it is you want to do to get to where it is you want to go...It's up to the coach to create the philosophy."<br /><br />Your culture is what you accept on a daily basis.<br /><br />It sets the floor for your team.<br /><br />The best teams create a… <a href="https://t.co/RltBkmieCi">pic.twitter.com/RltBkmieCi</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness (@coachajkings) <a href="https://twitter.com/coachajkings/status/1765005739540578541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <span style="font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-33006883317530753552024-03-09T10:10:00.000-08:002024-03-09T10:10:30.664-08:00Basketball: Video Breakdown, State D1 Quarterfinal <p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Breakdown of postseason play informs winning actions. Here's video breakdown from one of the Massachusetts Division 1 quarterfinals. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Seek edges from the tip. For a right-handed center, it's easiest to tip to players at the 7 and 10 o'clock positions. </span></p>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zIfnxpjv8sQ?start=1164&end=1167" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Let's focus on crunch time with Woburn (white) leading 49-47 down the stretch. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">BOB staggered screen misdirection into screen-the-screener action. Brilliant offense. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zIfnxpjv8sQ?start=5098&end=5104" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Basketball is a game of separation." Bridgewater-Raynham gets initial separation and then violates the "win in space" rule by driving into traffic.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zIfnxpjv8sQ?start=5135&end=5143" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Woburn fakes the double-team of the post and B-R reverses the ball. The dribbler punishes the closeout and the defender gets but does not hold legal guarding position.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zIfnxpjv8sQ?start=5212&end=5218" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Woburn gets the rebound and B-R gets burned in transition. Transition hoops off live-ball turnovers are killers. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zIfnxpjv8sQ?start=5383&end=5391" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Turnovers kill dreams. B-R again plays in traffic and Woburn's defense shrank space and got a steal from the help side. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zIfnxpjv8sQ?start=5494&end=5504" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Situational play is critical. Down 7, B-R goes on defense with 1:43 left. They don't pressure the ball and foul 27 seconds into the possession, the worst of both worlds as the clock runs and Woburn scores. Delay offense and delay defense matter.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zIfnxpjv8sQ?start=5504&end=5531" width="560"></iframe>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-89912636788767283062024-03-08T21:01:00.000-08:002024-03-08T21:01:00.128-08:00Basketball: More on Iverson Actions<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span>Run more hard-to-defend actions, like Iverson actions. </span> </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Florida’s 6 different options out of ‘Iverson Action’ ⬇️<br /><br />-Elevator<br />-Fade<br />-Curl <br />-Empty<br />-Clear<br />-Step Up<br /><br />🎥 <a href="https://twitter.com/EricFawcett_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EricFawcett_</a> <a href="https://t.co/iOIm9Hbvt8">pic.twitter.com/iOIm9Hbvt8</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Buckets Basketball (@BucketsBBALL1) <a href="https://twitter.com/BucketsBBALL1/status/1764808079659409710?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2024</a></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Running defenders through multiple screens challenges anyone. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What are your favorite Iverson actions? </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSu1v8tyyntcz1AUEglXb_Ru014RErJ7gjtL7bddxhCH-WV1zfv_D3vz1hljlKjDbr1dkodC2Z7FHcM68IdgwPJ8a3jmsnjX7Vp7zopJFUTWhymPXWl80o5F4B5sAjGesPzsr7K0fehyphenhyphenVm7XgCN_e5ep1806RZiGuSVf5TDeqpzdPuyQbobBiXF-iyoNa/s1462/Screenshot%202024-03-07%20at%206.52.11%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="1462" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSu1v8tyyntcz1AUEglXb_Ru014RErJ7gjtL7bddxhCH-WV1zfv_D3vz1hljlKjDbr1dkodC2Z7FHcM68IdgwPJ8a3jmsnjX7Vp7zopJFUTWhymPXWl80o5F4B5sAjGesPzsr7K0fehyphenhyphenVm7XgCN_e5ep1806RZiGuSVf5TDeqpzdPuyQbobBiXF-iyoNa/w627-h235/Screenshot%202024-03-07%20at%206.52.11%20PM.png" width="627" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Iverson throwback. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLJVthh3_SCPBBbcQoNOsppl28HeV79Gu_xUTryV5ZVsWn7O1hg3cBeT5XMKzox3f7jIh2jarRXV2V-YBcLedHo9nKuWh9p7OskHDqqrrsfE1OITt8A603iUBtAQpsE5YP_Cc3l6vguaZGMLUjTWE-vNZpq4LsJLOwo1Ohf-FEci9HNMGcgSOtvX0d-mi/s1546/Screenshot%202024-03-07%20at%206.52.54%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="1546" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLJVthh3_SCPBBbcQoNOsppl28HeV79Gu_xUTryV5ZVsWn7O1hg3cBeT5XMKzox3f7jIh2jarRXV2V-YBcLedHo9nKuWh9p7OskHDqqrrsfE1OITt8A603iUBtAQpsE5YP_Cc3l6vguaZGMLUjTWE-vNZpq4LsJLOwo1Ohf-FEci9HNMGcgSOtvX0d-mi/w621-h276/Screenshot%202024-03-07%20at%206.52.54%20PM.png" width="621" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Iverson backscreen 1. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVRbM_NQ66q7wT8-hfgSuCM2jy6CjcrJFXGIdNr2pNBKtAce55jFPMpkzZ08Cfy7lbBqFIjKAXM3026CR7fQLkvZumZLigRE-ueBeGboCLzuVdg1Ow_hMVyD38mkDzV94RjnKDRpqU8C7xY8UHeOQnEm4ds7Rw5L850QfTDrGeqE_XUq3IFrHBPOM3GbTH/s1466/Screenshot%202024-03-07%20at%206.53.40%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="1466" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVRbM_NQ66q7wT8-hfgSuCM2jy6CjcrJFXGIdNr2pNBKtAce55jFPMpkzZ08Cfy7lbBqFIjKAXM3026CR7fQLkvZumZLigRE-ueBeGboCLzuVdg1Ow_hMVyD38mkDzV94RjnKDRpqU8C7xY8UHeOQnEm4ds7Rw5L850QfTDrGeqE_XUq3IFrHBPOM3GbTH/w610-h257/Screenshot%202024-03-07%20at%206.53.40%20PM.png" width="610" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Iverson diagonal. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6tI-JT99_r-NgDZfzd7VoJbUkKbA510dHXZwXPkws7RZM9MoWt8QcEWW6xQGnsGItLVjv-AsPxNL7hpMUSrrDnY5LVO8h5ANAJnDqvJW_Dq-P7OU1w-5b5E9ioHgjcrhMqb8O00OEcbrmiWPjWnUaJV_-EppKLp2tXQkQpgVt9o5nE5e24raX1gbFrl0s/s654/Screenshot%202024-03-07%20at%206.54.06%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="654" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6tI-JT99_r-NgDZfzd7VoJbUkKbA510dHXZwXPkws7RZM9MoWt8QcEWW6xQGnsGItLVjv-AsPxNL7hpMUSrrDnY5LVO8h5ANAJnDqvJW_Dq-P7OU1w-5b5E9ioHgjcrhMqb8O00OEcbrmiWPjWnUaJV_-EppKLp2tXQkQpgVt9o5nE5e24raX1gbFrl0s/w446-h390/Screenshot%202024-03-07%20at%206.54.06%20PM.png" width="446" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Classic. </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IYoNTotrs8E?si=cYdkx6boPyhoQCQW" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. Screening the top of the zone. </span></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Rick Carlisle talks about his European influenced set that he loves to run vs zone <br /><br />He likes it because it lets the athlete be a reactor and not a thinker <a href="https://t.co/Hx2HDX5wU8">pic.twitter.com/Hx2HDX5wU8</a></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. Dribble at DHO actions are available. </span> </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Dribble-at backdoors… an excellent option with the basket area open with no post player<br /><br />By coach Greg Gober <a href="https://t.co/vpBr6JSRQS">pic.twitter.com/vpBr6JSRQS</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Hardwood Texas (@hardwoodtexas) <a href="https://twitter.com/hardwoodtexas/status/1765180614284829113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Hoop Herald (@TheHoopHerald) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheHoopHerald/status/1765604590689435988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-47349486718470865312024-03-07T21:01:00.000-08:002024-03-07T21:01:00.131-08:00Basketball: Players Need to Hear 'Winning Specifications' <p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Adam Grant's "Rethinking" podcast: Notes from "why mistakes are our greatest teachers" with chess grandmaster Maurice Ashley.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ashley is a member of the US Chess Hall of Fame and the first African-American grandmaster. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ashley's mother preached, "desire for excellence, focus is a key for success." Restated, "<i><b style="background-color: #fcff01;">Excellence comes with focus.</b></i>"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">At 33, preparing for the Grandmaster deciding match, he understood his mother's words were inspiring and meant to be positive not critical. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">"</span><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Chess picked me.</i></b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">" </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As you progress through the post-season, ask players how specifically they can make a difference. The post-season is no time for "I know, I know," and "it's okay," when players make bad plays. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">1. Take great shots...no 'shot turnovers'. Even great shots won't always go in. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">2. Avoid bad fouls - don't foul jump shots, bad shots, and bail out shots. Remind players, "<i>show your hands</i>," not grabbing or reaching in. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">3. Take care of the basketball. Pass away from defenders. Live ball turnovers turn into transition points. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">4. Cut urgently. "Basketball is a game of separation." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">5. Up your "talk on defense." Talk energizes and intimidates and helps prevent easy baskets. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">6. Review how many go to the glass and defensive transition roles. Fast break points change momentum. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">7. Use whichever hard-to-defend actions that your team executes well. </span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Pick-and-roll</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Complex screens (stagger, screen-the-screener, Spain)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Hard cuts - give-and-go, back door</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Dribble penetration</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Favorite sets</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. Teach players to love practice. </span></div><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">𝐊𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐋𝐀𝐖𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍<br />"Preparation doesn't guarantee a result. It just guarantees growth."<br /><br />Preparation matters because:<br />• You are your habits.<br />• It builds your foundation.<br />• It's where growth happens.<br />• Details make big differences. <a href="https://t.co/kABvjgoUTZ">pic.twitter.com/kABvjgoUTZ</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness (@coachajkings) <a href="https://twitter.com/coachajkings/status/1765179237038989820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-17844818523058079372024-03-07T04:46:00.000-08:002024-03-07T04:46:57.123-08:00Basketball: Taking the Test<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Find the reason to <i>show up. </i>Simon Sinek asks, "what's your why?" Sometimes we get thrown in the deep end of the pool. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Over 40 years ago, I was working as second year resident not expecting a 'final exam' question in the Emergency Room. A patient arrived by ambulance, struggling to breathe...about to die.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I pushed the "code button"...it didn't work. No help was coming. Life or death, A-B-C... airway, breathing, circulation. I had never intubated a patient. I grabbed a seven mm endotracheal tube, forced it through the right nares, and it found the patient's airway. The patient lived.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It turns out the patient had a headache about an hour before and had a severe allergic reaction. There wasn't any history available in the moment. There wasn't any supervisor. There wasn't any option to "take the B." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Take the test. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Elite teams are playing a different game: <br /><br />Will we hold ourselves to a higher standard than the outcome requires? <br /><br />Full Video: <a href="https://t.co/UkElH6opFa">https://t.co/UkElH6opFa</a> <br />📖:<a href="https://t.co/9WDjQbs00V">https://t.co/9WDjQbs00V</a> <a href="https://t.co/InhDL03vkx">pic.twitter.com/InhDL03vkx</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— What Drives Winning (@WDWconvo) <a href="https://twitter.com/WDWconvo/status/1765544490381525210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2024</a></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. Get shiftier. </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Want to get shiftier? Tag a teammate below and learn how below 👇<br /><br />WORK ON YOUR FEET! <br />If your feet don't shift, the defender more than likely won't either. Consider this the next time you're on the court. <a href="https://t.co/55t0SsuRew">pic.twitter.com/55t0SsuRew</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— HoopStudy (@hoopstudy) <a href="https://twitter.com/hoopstudy/status/1765407880352559382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-90890048347678823472024-03-06T21:01:00.001-08:002024-03-06T21:01:00.129-08:00Basketball: Respect <p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coaches <i>know</i> but most players do not. Share. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Respect plays. In the Patriots' documentary, <i>The Dynasty, </i>Aaron Hernandez was implicated in a shooting outside a bar after allegations of disrespect. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">If respect means so much, how do we earn it? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Respect the game</i></b>. "Play the right way." Know unwritten rules like running up the score, avoiding dirty plays (submarines, moving screens, tripping), etc.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Respect the officials</i></b>. Hand the official the ball. Players play; officials officiate. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Respect your teammates</i></b>. "Never criticize a teammate." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Respect your parents</i></b>. Some coaches publicly share they will never recruit a player disrespecting their family. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Respect your opponent. When trash talking or dogging others on social media, we radiate classlessness. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Respect your coaches. If you want respect, start by showing respect. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Don't make excuses</i></b>. Be accountable at all times. Among the worst I heard was an opposing coach saying, "We should have won, if we made any shots." I resisted the temptation to say, "you should have won with three six-foot tall seventh grade girls."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Stay balanced. "Be humble in victory and gracious in defeat."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Be a great teammate</i></b>. Show everyone that you value them. Care as much for them as for yourself. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>Show up</i>. Punctual, prepared, positive. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Do your job. Knowing others' jobs helps them play better. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Listen more than we speak. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Follow the <i><a href="https://ncacoach.org/uploads/Glines2.pdf">Toughness</a> </i>rules.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. Be relatable. Be grateful. Share what makes experiences special. No player ever thought their coach was great because of how she taught pick-and-roll. It's about 'the experience'. </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Jason Kelce did 5 things during his retirement speech on Monday that we may want to apply as well:<br /><br />1. Share relatable anecdotes <br />2. Thank non-obvious people<br />3. Articulate the “why”<br />4. Routinely pause<br />5. Go into detail about those who matter most<a href="https://t.co/qpM3ewNwhm">https://t.co/qpM3ewNwhm</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— The Daily Coach (@TheDaily_Coach) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheDaily_Coach/status/1765361640180940986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. Be specific. Translate "always do your best" into practical advice. </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Competing is not a game of sometimes. Competing is how you approach every rep, every drill, every game.<br />- Ep. 538 <a href="https://t.co/Maq8Kdr4kE">pic.twitter.com/Maq8Kdr4kE</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Hardwood Hustle (@Hardwood_Hustle) <a href="https://twitter.com/Hardwood_Hustle/status/1764868061876896009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-46573554501516465752024-03-06T03:55:00.000-08:002024-03-06T03:55:06.862-08:00Basketball: Cinderella Stories<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_AXTEjesFPs?si=G1rrECBwgO2x8D5V" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Everyone loves Cinderella, the underdog who makes the big time. The underdog story is just one archetype. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There are six or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots">seven core stories</a>. Some adapt easily for sport and basketball. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">1. Overcoming the monster (NC State beats UCLA, Villanova beats Georgetown) </span></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l83YlJyUmyg?si=VFt3YtEYsclIYIaA" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">2. Rags to riches (<i>Cinderella</i>)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">3. The quest (<i>Rocky</i>)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">4. Voyage and return (<i>Hoosiers</i>)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">5. Comedy (<i>Champions</i>) </span></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lNI2TfVVZI4?si=n5IxHnGs8sxv1ENL" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">6. Tragedy (Len Bias)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">7. Rebirth (Wembanyama and the Spurs)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coaches help players and teams write narratives. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I know the <i>Cinderella</i> story well. 51 years ago today, our 19-3 team went into Boston Garden an underdog fifth sectional seed against top seed St. John's Prep, 22-0, which supposedly averaged 89 points a game. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Trailing 26-12 in the second quarter, our team went on a 23-0 run and held the Prep scoreless for 8:35 en route to a 47-41 win. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Their star player, Dave Winey, went on to Minnesota, playing with Kevin McHale, and was himself a Celtics draft choice. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. More Cinderella stories... </span></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ly8hOceQlE8?si=nayCBearonrR6ScE" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Let's not forget about the Mighty Macs and also Kathy Delaney-Smith's Harvard Crimson women beating #1 Stanford. A future Emergency Room doctor iced the win with a three. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vcBl5gqwQYs?si=rY1mQolH-fnM9C96" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-31492529428797342352024-03-05T21:01:00.000-08:002024-03-05T21:01:00.121-08:00Basketball: Managing Success<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">"Success increases our self-assurance. Faith in ourselves is a good thing, of course, but too much of it can make us believe we don’t need to change anything." - Bob Knight, <i>The Power of Negative Thinking</i></span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Successful coaches ask a lot of questions. Unsuccessful coaches have all the answers. Successful coaches usually ask how can I do this better? Unsuccessful coaches often don't want input. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Rule 1. "Learn by studying the masters." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Rule 2. "Our heroes are less than perfect." - Stan Lee</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Here are more quotes from Knight's <i>Power of Negative Thinking:</i></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Success actually can be one of the biggest problems a coach or any leader has to deal with."</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Success increases our self-assurance. Faith in ourselves is a good thing, of course, but too much of it can make us believe we don’t need to change anything."</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"In the article, Gino and Pisano listed “overconfidence bias” as the second of three impediments that success can put in front of any enterprise."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. Winners manage success. </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Mismanaged success is the leading cause of failure.<br />But, well managed failure is the leading cause of success.<br />If you don't know how to work through winning, you are not going to keep winning.<br />If you don't know how to manage failure and get back up, you're not gonna win."… <a href="https://t.co/uI6wkRhTac">pic.twitter.com/uI6wkRhTac</a></span></p></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— The Winning Difference (@thewinningdiff1) <a href="https://twitter.com/thewinningdiff1/status/1759180697208561712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2024</a></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. "The wind always blows hardest at the top of the mountain." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 3. Finishing touches from Drew Hanlen. </span> </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Check out this quick finishing workout that includes 5️⃣ of our favorite finishes.<br /><br />FIN15H includes 100 different finishing moves, strategically designed into seven different workouts by <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewHanlen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DrewHanlen</a>.<br /><br />Get it here: <a href="https://t.co/bzcDNcyTDg">https://t.co/bzcDNcyTDg</a> <a href="https://t.co/876QQxdaLx">pic.twitter.com/876QQxdaLx</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Pure Sweat (@PureSweat) <a href="https://twitter.com/PureSweat/status/1759972088159310160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2024</a></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 4. Misdirection. </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">X's and O's<br />Virgina Tech decoy elevator BLOB <a href="https://t.co/7TX58eTN7t">https://t.co/7TX58eTN7t</a> <a href="https://t.co/OeohsodnIh">pic.twitter.com/OeohsodnIh</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Basic Basketball (@basicbball_) <a href="https://twitter.com/basicbball_/status/1764811578569027719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p> </p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-35249416399783247162024-03-04T21:01:00.000-08:002024-03-04T21:01:00.125-08:00Basketball: Leave a Legacy - Leaders Grow Leaders<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>Legacy </i>by James Kerr is the best leadership book I've read... three times. The seven-minute video hits some high points among the 15 lessons. </span></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5BNTyW6wUkU?si=8lJGAuP0fvnntnGv" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://medium.com/@razbachar/legacy-15-lessons-in-leadership-by-james-kerr-book-review-d5f7d362a755">What concepts translate</a>? A lot... </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"<i><b style="background-color: #04ff00;">Champions do extra.</b></i>" If success is important to you, outwork the competition. That's hard, requiring time, sacrifice, sometimes blood, sweat, and tears. Every exceptional player in our program sacrificed to become her best. And yet, no guarantees exist. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #04ff00;">Train with purpose</i></b>. Elevate your skill, strategy, physicality, and psychology. Under pressure, we fall to the level of our training. You don't need expensive equipment to jump rope, do pushups, situps, and many of the "jump training" exercises shown in the videos available here and elsewhere. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #04ff00;">Character matters</i></b>. Employers want intelligent workers, but first they want hard workers with integrity and honesty. "Sweeping the sheds" translates to cleaning up after practice and games, leaving the gym in better condition than you found it. Empty water bottles, hair ties, and wet floors never belong in the bench area. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b style="background-color: #04ff00;">Don't manage expectations</b>. </i>Exceptional teams don't show up looking for participation trophies. Every season you're pursuing the brass ring, not mediocrity. When facing the top programs in the state, walk in 'heads high', standing tall. You're only as good as your self-belief. Let your opponent expect a dog fight. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #04ff00;">Culture reigns</i></b>. Like your word, your culture is your bond. As an upperclassman, you have an obligation to train young players in "this is who we are" and "that is how we play." Never 'bigfoot' young players. Underclassmen lead by preparation, punctuality, and never as a distraction. When opportunity arises, perform, whether a senior or a freshman. With ability, game understanding, and mental toughness, you get an opportunity to play and to earn the trust of coaches. </span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The more of these</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">Legacy </i><span style="font-family: verdana;">values you adopt, the more success you will have at home, in school, in sport, and in life.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. Culture wins. </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"If I'm hiring a coach, I'm hiring a culture builder. Every coach will know the game but can they connect, communicate a clear vision, hire/recruit/develop people well, multiply their leadership? Coaching is about X's and O's. Leadership is about culture."<br /><br />~ via <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinDeShazo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KevinDeShazo</a></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. Great example of disrupting a defender. </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Jamy Bechler (@CoachBechler) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachBechler/status/1756333954649432208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Shot fakes are most effective when a defender needs to:<br /><br />1️⃣ Lean<br />2️⃣ Lift<br />3️⃣ Lunge<br /><br />Gobert has to come out of his stance to alter the shot, and Murray is able to put it down before he even gets to his pickup. <a href="https://t.co/wsfevL3oDy">pic.twitter.com/wsfevL3oDy</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Reid Ouse (@reidouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/reidouse/status/1756115030917931049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2024</a></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 3. Grow your game...shooting! </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">New shooting workouts and skill workouts every week 📲<br /><br />This weeks focus:<br /><br />Skills 🎒: Foot Switches<br /><br />Shooting 🎯: Balance<br /><br />Want to train with me every week? Join here: <a href="https://t.co/pXChv9ZdhX">https://t.co/pXChv9ZdhX</a> <a href="https://t.co/xJM50TjKbv">pic.twitter.com/xJM50TjKbv</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Shane Hennen (@Hennen_Workouts) <a href="https://twitter.com/Hennen_Workouts/status/1755321179928178843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-55049045219817591412024-03-04T04:52:00.000-08:002024-03-04T04:52:50.992-08:00Basketball: There Is No "One Way" <p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Don Yaeger's</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span><i style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Great Teams </i><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">helps define what separates success from mediocrity. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg28FtSiEedA_QZXHFLaYlVzEIWQlt-1il4rmbjSTV9hnb6OTvOnBXEm_zumm1bNZ-lc9wWW1rCldD55SCUGZFJ9rCXxo6z3vgPaVc-x71QQuEhDLlNiAYZ9OVLXZ-D-Bix1UNlpFc-xZBfc1CUZmjIuFb5evKB-8ZmfoY50N3SLbp2vYr5wQTy/s1020/Screenshot%202024-03-04%20at%207.35.32%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="1020" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg28FtSiEedA_QZXHFLaYlVzEIWQlt-1il4rmbjSTV9hnb6OTvOnBXEm_zumm1bNZ-lc9wWW1rCldD55SCUGZFJ9rCXxo6z3vgPaVc-x71QQuEhDLlNiAYZ9OVLXZ-D-Bix1UNlpFc-xZBfc1CUZmjIuFb5evKB-8ZmfoY50N3SLbp2vYr5wQTy/w423-h353/Screenshot%202024-03-04%20at%207.35.32%20AM.png" width="423" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Translate. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">1) Culture...the environment or ecosystem surrounding a program. Every player and coach "inhabits" and impacts culture. No universal culture exists. The same players can play in different sports with entirely different cultures. One can be collegial and another hierarchical. One can be player-driven and another autocratic. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">2) Problem solving. Some coaches encourage teams to "figure it out," e.g. Gregg Popovich of the Spurs and to a lesser degree Joe Mazzulla of the Celtics last year. Others have a more rigid framework where coaches "impose" solutions. Often blended structures of high collaboration are best. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Teams can be fragile. For those watching "The Dynasty" about the Patriots, the arrival of Aaron Hernandez brought a volatile and violent character into the mix. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Years ago we added a good player during tryouts. The team was slightly better and the culture changed, not clearly better or worse, just different. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote class="text-post-media" data-text-post-permalink="https://www.threads.net/@booksforaspirants/post/C4AmPrnSaot" data-text-post-version="0" id="ig-tp-C4AmPrnSaot" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); border-radius: 16px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 270px; padding: 0px; width: calc(100% - 2px);"><a href="https://www.threads.net/@booksforaspirants/post/C4AmPrnSaot" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; line-height: 0; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; width: 100%;" target="_blank"><div style="align-items: center; display: flex; flex-direction: column; padding: 40px;"><div style="height: 32px; padding-bottom: 20px; width: 32px;"><svg aria-label="Threads" height="32px" role="img" viewbox="0 0 192 192" width="32px" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M141.537 88.9883C140.71 88.5919 139.87 88.2104 139.019 87.8451C137.537 60.5382 122.616 44.905 97.5619 44.745C97.4484 44.7443 97.3355 44.7443 97.222 44.7443C82.2364 44.7443 69.7731 51.1409 62.102 62.7807L75.881 72.2328C81.6116 63.5383 90.6052 61.6848 97.2286 61.6848C97.3051 61.6848 97.3819 61.6848 97.4576 61.6855C105.707 61.7381 111.932 64.1366 115.961 68.814C118.893 72.2193 120.854 76.925 121.825 82.8638C114.511 81.6207 106.601 81.2385 98.145 81.7233C74.3247 83.0954 59.0111 96.9879 60.0396 116.292C60.5615 126.084 65.4397 134.508 73.775 140.011C80.8224 144.663 89.899 146.938 99.3323 146.423C111.79 145.74 121.563 140.987 128.381 132.296C133.559 125.696 136.834 117.143 138.28 106.366C144.217 109.949 148.617 114.664 151.047 120.332C155.179 129.967 155.42 145.8 142.501 158.708C131.182 170.016 117.576 174.908 97.0135 175.059C74.2042 174.89 56.9538 167.575 45.7381 153.317C35.2355 139.966 29.8077 120.682 29.6052 96C29.8077 71.3178 35.2355 52.0336 45.7381 38.6827C56.9538 24.4249 74.2039 17.11 97.0132 16.9405C119.988 17.1113 137.539 24.4614 149.184 38.788C154.894 45.8136 159.199 54.6488 162.037 64.9503L178.184 60.6422C174.744 47.9622 169.331 37.0357 161.965 27.974C147.036 9.60668 125.202 0.195148 97.0695 0H96.9569C68.8816 0.19447 47.2921 9.6418 32.7883 28.0793C19.8819 44.4864 13.2244 67.3157 13.0007 95.9325L13 96L13.0007 96.0675C13.2244 124.684 19.8819 147.514 32.7883 163.921C47.2921 182.358 68.8816 191.806 96.9569 192H97.0695C122.03 191.827 139.624 185.292 154.118 170.811C173.081 151.866 172.51 128.119 166.26 113.541C161.776 103.087 153.227 94.5962 141.537 88.9883ZM98.4405 129.507C88.0005 130.095 77.1544 125.409 76.6196 115.372C76.2232 107.93 81.9158 99.626 99.0812 98.6368C101.047 98.5234 102.976 98.468 104.871 98.468C111.106 98.468 116.939 99.0737 122.242 100.233C120.264 124.935 108.662 128.946 98.4405 129.507Z"></path></svg></div><div style="color: #999999; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 4px;">Post by @booksforaspirants</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 21px;">View on Threads</div></div></a></blockquote><script async="" src="https://www.threads.net/embed.js"></script><p> </p>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-22197428473391659112024-03-03T21:01:00.000-08:002024-03-03T21:01:00.133-08:00Basketball: Forget the Cliches...How Two Players Earned D1 Scholarships<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Cliches, like money, can't play. For some of you, the offseason has begun. Development limits disappointment. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">After fifteen years an assistant, in six years of head coaching middle schoolers in a small city of under 30,000 (total of 25 players), I saw two (Samantha Dewey, Cecilia Kay) earn D1 scholarships. They deserve most of the credit. What helped?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">1. <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Study</i></b>. Maintain your notebook and study game video. "Do more of what works and less of what doesn't." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">2. <i><b style="background-color: #fcff01;">Say 'yes' to offseason workouts</b></i>. Learn to score at three levels. Finish with either hand from either side off two feet and off either foot. I'm partial to <i><b style="background-color: #fcff01;">box drills with defense</b></i>, working from either elbow. Elite finishers get fouled, so work on free throws during 'breaks'. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">3. <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Develop elite footwork</i></b>. Pivot off either foot, both front and reverse. Pivoting is an undertaught, undervalued skill. Get access to Pete Newell books and/or tape...or a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpcu33pqvXQ">reasonable facsimile</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">4. <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Practice off-the-catch</i></b>. Leverage early advantage. Don't get bored. Work with a partner for competition and rebounding.</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Catch and shoot.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Stampede (attack off the moving catch).</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_t28D4FQxc">Split catch</a> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Negative step/load step</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Jab series </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Develop a shot fake, "a shot not taken." </span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">5. <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Shoot with volume</i></b>, self-competitive shooting to set personal best (PB)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEZ1CXJybrBUjXIXlnH7jswjJF5hVFNdyQ7NX2FaF3KGexFa98vs4EfKpUD8YENKIt2cVO8u7g0Uf2hX2mpV1-Co_KhUe8mTPp3tQS7cEMsFHf6eoDOU1KV_KpjKtl4IlH4GHtoGTol1zDMa_qOfQuVv3PZHKgmNjZNO94vnJ5TgfY_4IFtb3ZXb17G_h6/s550/Screenshot%202024-03-02%20at%208.40.43%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="550" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEZ1CXJybrBUjXIXlnH7jswjJF5hVFNdyQ7NX2FaF3KGexFa98vs4EfKpUD8YENKIt2cVO8u7g0Uf2hX2mpV1-Co_KhUe8mTPp3tQS7cEMsFHf6eoDOU1KV_KpjKtl4IlH4GHtoGTol1zDMa_qOfQuVv3PZHKgmNjZNO94vnJ5TgfY_4IFtb3ZXb17G_h6/s320/Screenshot%202024-03-02%20at%208.40.43%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>Championship 38</i>, 15 shots plus 3 free throws</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFvrG5eCTUg48YT6pmoqz4PrIKQu1IACF08XWayqfy12j0DpfwIGp0UaJhVz4wVlV33vxX9ssH9sMJ4wnb8E2n902CLC_PE3deQw1s0vDxUulr9DCLhhlEEZtV8SSQnw0c_eLrEjpZtyc0Wj6QXid7sUf4uwPEH0rllouSgpgbEVuK76PpJ6_0nVNcYrmn/s1108/Screenshot%202024-03-02%20at%208.41.54%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="1108" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFvrG5eCTUg48YT6pmoqz4PrIKQu1IACF08XWayqfy12j0DpfwIGp0UaJhVz4wVlV33vxX9ssH9sMJ4wnb8E2n902CLC_PE3deQw1s0vDxUulr9DCLhhlEEZtV8SSQnw0c_eLrEjpZtyc0Wj6QXid7sUf4uwPEH0rllouSgpgbEVuK76PpJ6_0nVNcYrmn/w511-h212/Screenshot%202024-03-02%20at%208.41.54%20PM.png" width="511" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Game shots, on the move catch and shoot... elbow to sideline, elbow to elbow. </span></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">6. <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Separate with the dribble</i></b> (less is more). Work with a partner for defense or work within small-sided games (SSGs)</span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Hesitation</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Crossover</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Combinations </span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lateral glide (optional)</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">7. Defend ("play a lot").</span></div></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Everyone plays defense." - Knight</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ball containment (play one-on-one)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Defend the pick-and-roll (two-on-two or SSGs).</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Contest shots <i>without fouling.</i></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Block out or rebound.</span></li></ul></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">8. Physical training. Sport rewards athletic explosion. </span></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oMXHBcI1wJU?si=yVfKeF7JjLHQvK-z" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe (something extra). Cutting. </span></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Want to better understand and teach off the ball cutting?<br /><br />Here is one of the best clinics out there available for free. Utah Jazz assistant Scott Morrison presented on Cutting Off the Basketball to Create Advantage <a href="https://t.co/XBWbLjWsDp">https://t.co/XBWbLjWsDp</a> <a href="https://t.co/9XieFsWkd4">pic.twitter.com/9XieFsWkd4</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Immersion Videos (@ImmersionVideos) <a href="https://twitter.com/ImmersionVideos/status/1763915675683131490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2024</a></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. I think about sets as ways to put "lines on paper" when teaching writing. Create variety by running similar actions from different alignment and different actions from the same alignment. The Joe Gibbs Redskins ran about three running plays and ten passes but different alignments and motion disguised them. </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Rank these alignments:<br /><br />-Box<br />-Horns<br />-Tandem/Stack<br />-4 High<br />-4 Out<br />-5 Out<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/XsOs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#XsOs</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— FastModel Sports (@FastModel) <a href="https://twitter.com/FastModel/status/1764038944151515260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><p> </p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-2820181570456035442024-03-02T21:01:00.000-08:002024-03-02T21:01:00.238-08:00Basketball: "Captain Cliche," Math, and PPP<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Elite-level basketball watchers understand the analytics revolution. Layups, free throws, and three-point shots define high-value points per possession basketball.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Don't blindly worship at the altar of NBA analytics</i></b>. High school players, despite a closer line, don't produce at the same level. They don't get the same looks or make shots at similar rates. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Analyze games by possessions</i></b>. For example, I tracked one quarter's worth of possessions in a matchup of two area teams. One team had nineteen possessions and their opponent eighteen. The loser had ten turnovers and allowed a previously winless opponent to score on six consecutive possessions. "You can see a lot by just watching..." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">1) "<b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Value the ball.</i></b>" Turnovers kill dreams, are "zero percent shots", and live-ball turnovers convert to opponent points at high rates. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">2) "<b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Stops make runs.</i></b>" </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Recently I showed a "Four Factors" breakdown from the 1973 NCAA championship game, UCLA and Memphis State. UCLA overcame a turnover rate twice that of Memphis by having an Effective Field Goal percentage twenty points higher. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Our high school team in the same year beat a team in the playoffs with an 18-game win streak, 58-38. We shot 23 for 42 and controlled tempo before the shot clock. Do the math. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">3) "<b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Empty barrels make the most noise.</i></b>" Coaching is collaboration. If the loudest yellers won the most games, ADs would hire using decibel meters. Either be great talent aggregators, developers, or both. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">4) "<b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Every day is player development day</i></b>." Development translates to efficiency, the elixir of possessions into points. It's not just the time commitment but transformation. Newell's "footwork, balance, and maneuvering speed" translate to separation. Exceptional players find ways to <b><i>separate and finish</i></b>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">5) "<i><b style="background-color: #fcff01;">Basketball is a game of cutting and passing.</b></i>" <a href="https://hoopshype.com/lists/nba-stats-iso-transition-pick-roll-handoff-post-up/">Players score off many different "play types"</a> and points-per-possession vary by play type. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQS1IUgJMX1TZ7QfDe2BsFLHgKxMNU5JVWfhhJyYVQKxcIYDDzx50ms8Qwaf6Do9MkNAnEaV2XkbOEhjaFW6Tk2yoiRsXf_tinNDlL6aGYfQfasnAmEzDLZbySIgtBCVb7t3KhlSD6Ohh-WBrZDq81qGUg106zAEvxphIQtDfIrH3Yz7Phztelj3mbJJLt/s2424/Screenshot%202024-03-02%20at%2010.56.48%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="2424" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQS1IUgJMX1TZ7QfDe2BsFLHgKxMNU5JVWfhhJyYVQKxcIYDDzx50ms8Qwaf6Do9MkNAnEaV2XkbOEhjaFW6Tk2yoiRsXf_tinNDlL6aGYfQfasnAmEzDLZbySIgtBCVb7t3KhlSD6Ohh-WBrZDq81qGUg106zAEvxphIQtDfIrH3Yz7Phztelj3mbJJLt/w629-h152/Screenshot%202024-03-02%20at%2010.56.48%20AM.png" width="629" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The top five PPP score off cuts at over 1.37 points/possession. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvJ6WJ6KAQ0-3zO4vXxfUB_D1ay0sbnqLJl0o1RvanbBkfXXS__iRDSFyoG7U8aqE6mWnXVywR30KRzclPiPjBKdTh6n9nFvbsIokxA3RH-r8bICDXz8Cp9EBihvUaqdCsygkqsGXq_XHL1cW7XvQc3ljSk0LcpWoMOckdov3uRrNjOnOGV_u9E3FXTPWv/s2412/Screenshot%202024-03-02%20at%2010.59.01%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="2412" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvJ6WJ6KAQ0-3zO4vXxfUB_D1ay0sbnqLJl0o1RvanbBkfXXS__iRDSFyoG7U8aqE6mWnXVywR30KRzclPiPjBKdTh6n9nFvbsIokxA3RH-r8bICDXz8Cp9EBihvUaqdCsygkqsGXq_XHL1cW7XvQc3ljSk0LcpWoMOckdov3uRrNjOnOGV_u9E3FXTPWv/w633-h146/Screenshot%202024-03-02%20at%2010.59.01%20AM.png" width="633" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The top five PPP off isolation score at over 1.05 points per possession. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">One might ask why not design more actions to score off cuts. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVv-Q9Yw-cxrZTtDmdeDY1PhByTUvk9_GZbgs10iRlQYGo79Es-j6KMBF1NhDHfVnqY32Vi3gu3spW-_fnoqE4d7htRlyF1kfJZL7cmLGqblROYZlVPMYZCfPGQaGU57-QagK9gJbmOuZkUDBxuQ5DgJWWbZatmIAgRUJZ3UwCmpKU5jHaiZUQt7spUbnL/s2414/Screenshot%202024-03-02%20at%2011.00.47%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="2414" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVv-Q9Yw-cxrZTtDmdeDY1PhByTUvk9_GZbgs10iRlQYGo79Es-j6KMBF1NhDHfVnqY32Vi3gu3spW-_fnoqE4d7htRlyF1kfJZL7cmLGqblROYZlVPMYZCfPGQaGU57-QagK9gJbmOuZkUDBxuQ5DgJWWbZatmIAgRUJZ3UwCmpKU5jHaiZUQt7spUbnL/w642-h149/Screenshot%202024-03-02%20at%2011.00.47%20AM.png" width="642" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Celtics lead the league in PPP off spot ups which also reflects three-point scoring to a degree. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Of course, you can <b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">track points per possession or by points scored</i></b> by play type. Infrequently used actions obviously generate fewer points. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Don't explain how your offense runs the most efficient play types while you score the fewest points in the league. That dog don't hunt. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">One of the hardest teams we defended was a team that ran spread offense with a lot of give-and-go using hard cuts and good passing. Simple, well-executed actions are often hardest to defend.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. Production beats promotion. </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What doesn’t matter:<br /><br />Your write ups<br />Your rankings<br />Your invites<br />Your offers<br />Your hype<br />Your showcases<br />Your AAU team<br />Your potential<br /><br />What does matter:<br /><br />Your improvement<br />Your attitude<br />Your determination<br />What you can do when you walk out on the floor to compete vs. good players/teams</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Jon Beck (@CoachJonBeck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachJonBeck/status/1762909557028741625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. <br /></span><p></p><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Meyerisms:<br />* Be Hard to Guard…w/o the <br /> Ball<br />* A selfish Defender guards his <br /> own man<br />* It’s not what you Teach, it’s <br /> what you emphasize<br />* Teach Players how to Play <br /> vs giving them Plays<br />* Get all the good ideas, but <br /> know you can’t use all <br /> the good ideas <a href="https://t.co/YdggV37zP4">pic.twitter.com/YdggV37zP4</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— JIM BOONE 🏀 (@CoachJimBoone) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachJimBoone/status/1762976799200293360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Note: it's not how many your guy scores, it's how many your opponent scores. There's both individual and team defense. Cover 1.5, your guy and half of another. </span><p></p>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-48353788873104351982024-03-01T21:01:00.000-08:002024-03-02T04:24:34.810-08:00Basketball: Off the Rails, Where Does It Go Wrong?<blockquote class="text-post-media" data-text-post-permalink="https://www.threads.net/@lets.make.a_difference1/post/C38llgdCBF-" data-text-post-version="0" id="ig-tp-C38llgdCBF-" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); border-radius: 16px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 270px; padding: 0px; width: calc(100% - 2px);"> <a href="https://www.threads.net/@lets.make.a_difference1/post/C38llgdCBF-" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; line-height: 0; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 100%;" target="_blank"> <div style="align-items: center; display: flex; flex-direction: column; padding: 40px;"><div style="display: block; height: 32px; padding-bottom: 20px; width: 32px;"> <svg aria-label="Threads" height="32px" role="img" viewbox="0 0 192 192" width="32px" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M141.537 88.9883C140.71 88.5919 139.87 88.2104 139.019 87.8451C137.537 60.5382 122.616 44.905 97.5619 44.745C97.4484 44.7443 97.3355 44.7443 97.222 44.7443C82.2364 44.7443 69.7731 51.1409 62.102 62.7807L75.881 72.2328C81.6116 63.5383 90.6052 61.6848 97.2286 61.6848C97.3051 61.6848 97.3819 61.6848 97.4576 61.6855C105.707 61.7381 111.932 64.1366 115.961 68.814C118.893 72.2193 120.854 76.925 121.825 82.8638C114.511 81.6207 106.601 81.2385 98.145 81.7233C74.3247 83.0954 59.0111 96.9879 60.0396 116.292C60.5615 126.084 65.4397 134.508 73.775 140.011C80.8224 144.663 89.899 146.938 99.3323 146.423C111.79 145.74 121.563 140.987 128.381 132.296C133.559 125.696 136.834 117.143 138.28 106.366C144.217 109.949 148.617 114.664 151.047 120.332C155.179 129.967 155.42 145.8 142.501 158.708C131.182 170.016 117.576 174.908 97.0135 175.059C74.2042 174.89 56.9538 167.575 45.7381 153.317C35.2355 139.966 29.8077 120.682 29.6052 96C29.8077 71.3178 35.2355 52.0336 45.7381 38.6827C56.9538 24.4249 74.2039 17.11 97.0132 16.9405C119.988 17.1113 137.539 24.4614 149.184 38.788C154.894 45.8136 159.199 54.6488 162.037 64.9503L178.184 60.6422C174.744 47.9622 169.331 37.0357 161.965 27.974C147.036 9.60668 125.202 0.195148 97.0695 0H96.9569C68.8816 0.19447 47.2921 9.6418 32.7883 28.0793C19.8819 44.4864 13.2244 67.3157 13.0007 95.9325L13 96L13.0007 96.0675C13.2244 124.684 19.8819 147.514 32.7883 163.921C47.2921 182.358 68.8816 191.806 96.9569 192H97.0695C122.03 191.827 139.624 185.292 154.118 170.811C173.081 151.866 172.51 128.119 166.26 113.541C161.776 103.087 153.227 94.5962 141.537 88.9883ZM98.4405 129.507C88.0005 130.095 77.1544 125.409 76.6196 115.372C76.2232 107.93 81.9158 99.626 99.0812 98.6368C101.047 98.5234 102.976 98.468 104.871 98.468C111.106 98.468 116.939 99.0737 122.242 100.233C120.264 124.935 108.662 128.946 98.4405 129.507Z"></path></svg></div> <div style="color: #999999; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 4px;"> Post by @lets.make.a_difference1</div> <div style="color: black; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 21px;"> View on Threads</div></div></a></blockquote>
<script async="" src="https://www.threads.net/embed.js"></script><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What keeps you up at night?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Jim Rohn shares reality, "you suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Think back to some first round draft choices that didn't pan out. "Living the life" was more important to them than durable success. You know the names.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">1. Commitment. Nobody gets to be "All-League" before being "All In." Sacrifice comes before success.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">2. Sleep. If you don't get enough rest, underachievement is certain. Choose anecdotal like LeBron getting 12 hours of sleep or studies showing more sleep equals higher performance.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">3. Discipline. Party animal? <a href="https://ronsenbasketball.blogspot.com/2017/10/alcohol-and-adolescent-brain.html">Alcohol impairs cognition</a> (e.g. memory), performance, and recovery. "<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">But why should student-athletes particularly care? </span><a href="http://stepupprogram.org/docs/handouts/FortheAthlete_AlcoholandAthleticPerformance.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">A single night’s alcohol use</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> impairs hydration (alcohol is a diuretic), muscle recovery, healing, and can cause memory deficits for three days. Alcohol damages sleep. It limits absorption of key vitamins. It decreases endurance."</span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">4. Work ethic. Elite achievement demands physical and mental toughness. <a href="https://ronsenbasketball.blogspot.com/2023/03/basketball-chris-brickley-approach.html">Check out the videos</a>. Your idea of hard work isn't NBA level hard work. Winning is hard. That's why it's valued. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">5. Smarts. Nobody wants to be told they have a low basketball IQ but many people struggle to make consistently good basketball decisions. See through a lens of suboptimal decision not poor player. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">6. Selfishness. "Happiness begins where selfishness ends." - Coach John Wooden Make serving your teammates a priority. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">7. Inattention. We've all seen games lost when players didn't pay attention, didn't understand, or didn't execute a task. "I didn't know who to cover" is the classic. Be "performance-focused, feedback-rich..." in the words of Ronald Reagan, "trust but verify." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">8. Sense of urgency. Nothing works without <i>urgent cutting. </i>Pass "on-time and on-target." The simple "give-and-go" action when a cut is set up, executed, and pass received is hard to defend. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">9. Stubbornness. Some players and coaches wallow in unmerited self-belief. Have you thought about doing it this way? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">10.Pride. "Pride goeth before the fall." Get help. The legendary Fred Rogers reminds us, "look for the helpers." Jimmy Piersall was a muscular teammate of Ted Williams. The Sox had a 'strength machine' in the clubhouse where a broomstick and rope looped over a pulley lifting a ten-pound weight. Roll your wrists to raise the weight. Piersall boasted, "I can do three times as many as anyone here." Williams replied, "Stop being an a*hole, Jim." "Let's go, Williams." Almost everyone bet on the strongman, who did 50. Williams got on the device and it moved up and down effortlessly, to 150. Williams explained. "I invented this machine, Jim." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Be open to learning, to improving, to rebooting our strategy. "Sorry" is too late. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. </span></p><p></p><blockquote class="text-post-media" data-text-post-permalink="https://www.threads.net/@ryanpannone/post/C37v4ABuz-v" data-text-post-version="0" id="ig-tp-C37v4ABuz-v" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); border-radius: 16px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 270px; padding: 0px; width: calc(100% - 2px);"> <a href="https://www.threads.net/@ryanpannone/post/C37v4ABuz-v" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif; line-height: 0; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 100%;" target="_blank"> <div style="align-items: center; display: flex; flex-direction: column; padding: 40px;"><div style="display: block; height: 32px; padding-bottom: 20px; width: 32px;"> <svg aria-label="Threads" height="32px" role="img" viewbox="0 0 192 192" width="32px" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M141.537 88.9883C140.71 88.5919 139.87 88.2104 139.019 87.8451C137.537 60.5382 122.616 44.905 97.5619 44.745C97.4484 44.7443 97.3355 44.7443 97.222 44.7443C82.2364 44.7443 69.7731 51.1409 62.102 62.7807L75.881 72.2328C81.6116 63.5383 90.6052 61.6848 97.2286 61.6848C97.3051 61.6848 97.3819 61.6848 97.4576 61.6855C105.707 61.7381 111.932 64.1366 115.961 68.814C118.893 72.2193 120.854 76.925 121.825 82.8638C114.511 81.6207 106.601 81.2385 98.145 81.7233C74.3247 83.0954 59.0111 96.9879 60.0396 116.292C60.5615 126.084 65.4397 134.508 73.775 140.011C80.8224 144.663 89.899 146.938 99.3323 146.423C111.79 145.74 121.563 140.987 128.381 132.296C133.559 125.696 136.834 117.143 138.28 106.366C144.217 109.949 148.617 114.664 151.047 120.332C155.179 129.967 155.42 145.8 142.501 158.708C131.182 170.016 117.576 174.908 97.0135 175.059C74.2042 174.89 56.9538 167.575 45.7381 153.317C35.2355 139.966 29.8077 120.682 29.6052 96C29.8077 71.3178 35.2355 52.0336 45.7381 38.6827C56.9538 24.4249 74.2039 17.11 97.0132 16.9405C119.988 17.1113 137.539 24.4614 149.184 38.788C154.894 45.8136 159.199 54.6488 162.037 64.9503L178.184 60.6422C174.744 47.9622 169.331 37.0357 161.965 27.974C147.036 9.60668 125.202 0.195148 97.0695 0H96.9569C68.8816 0.19447 47.2921 9.6418 32.7883 28.0793C19.8819 44.4864 13.2244 67.3157 13.0007 95.9325L13 96L13.0007 96.0675C13.2244 124.684 19.8819 147.514 32.7883 163.921C47.2921 182.358 68.8816 191.806 96.9569 192H97.0695C122.03 191.827 139.624 185.292 154.118 170.811C173.081 151.866 172.51 128.119 166.26 113.541C161.776 103.087 153.227 94.5962 141.537 88.9883ZM98.4405 129.507C88.0005 130.095 77.1544 125.409 76.6196 115.372C76.2232 107.93 81.9158 99.626 99.0812 98.6368C101.047 98.5234 102.976 98.468 104.871 98.468C111.106 98.468 116.939 99.0737 122.242 100.233C120.264 124.935 108.662 128.946 98.4405 129.507Z"></path></svg></div> <div style="color: #999999; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; padding-bottom: 4px;"> Post by @ryanpannone</div> <div style="color: black; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 21px;"> View on Threads</div></div></a></blockquote>
<script async="" src="https://www.threads.net/embed.js"></script><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Lagniappe 2. Keep banging on winning themes. <br /></span><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute"<br /><br />- Bill Russell <a href="https://t.co/nuF6y37Smf">pic.twitter.com/nuF6y37Smf</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Coach Mac 🏀 (@BballCoachMac) <a href="https://twitter.com/BballCoachMac/status/1762992335028199735?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><br />Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6210718269077082497.post-11258617729263834962024-02-29T21:30:00.000-08:002024-03-01T03:32:38.013-08:00Basketball: Not-so-Quotable Quotes<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I coached middle school girls for about twenty years, six years as a head coach. The Rec Department didn't want my friend and me to coach together because they thought the coaching was too 'concentrated'.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Seven years ago, the girls shared quotes and memories after the season. Not exactly Shakespeare. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSaui79YnsHjIE3JOsfoU1k9m_s8FFEZ7guzVEqmKnlYGJLk6yEkpre8FGNWMlZ_HYrN9U7MucbXJUIKwt0HyR__InwyobRFFFdbk5pQ9sXle-PLrv61lKnSdBJdRyV0__z3vkjlSn2PtPdiTOSWLCK6PwcEsktEr-1vq9bwJkFzKkvIGnKj32QlQjgxdK/s820/Screenshot%202024-02-29%20at%209.13.50%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="820" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSaui79YnsHjIE3JOsfoU1k9m_s8FFEZ7guzVEqmKnlYGJLk6yEkpre8FGNWMlZ_HYrN9U7MucbXJUIKwt0HyR__InwyobRFFFdbk5pQ9sXle-PLrv61lKnSdBJdRyV0__z3vkjlSn2PtPdiTOSWLCK6PwcEsktEr-1vq9bwJkFzKkvIGnKj32QlQjgxdK/w515-h309/Screenshot%202024-02-29%20at%209.13.50%20PM.png" width="515" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">1. Have an attitude. Play like a dragon, a mythological creature.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">2. "Sprint, don't run." Sprint back on defense. Sprint on offensive transition. Sprint to screen.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">3. "The ball is gold." Over fifty years ago, the Four Factors didn't exist, but Coach taught us not to waste possessions, to value the ball. Adhere to that principle, play defense, and you'll play a lot.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">You never know what players will remember.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe. "Ricky, don't lose that number." </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Action Breakdown #1<br /><br />Ricky Screen: A ricky screen is a backscreen followed immediately by a pin down set by the same screener<br /><br />Ex. ⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/5MwNluVON6">pic.twitter.com/5MwNluVON6</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— Basic Basketball (@basicbball_) <a href="https://twitter.com/basicbball_/status/1763256520710787201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2024</a></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 2. Great teammates help teams do more. </span> </p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“She’s a great teammate. She’s a great teammate because she’s a great human being. She’s one of those kids that just gets the big picture and understands the purpose of being on a team,” Geno Auriemma<br /><br />Being a great teammate doesn’t <br />require a skill set. <br /><br />It requires a mindset.… <a href="https://t.co/3pEr2wI76D">pic.twitter.com/3pEr2wI76D</a></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lagniappe 3. Terrific idea from @PickandPopNet "Free Throw Golf" </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Free Throw Golf<br /><br />Swish = Birdie (-1)<br />Rim Make = Par (0)<br />Miss = Bogey (+1)<br /><br />Shoot 18 shots (18 holes)<br /><br />Record: -14<a href="https://twitter.com/gjohnson_3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@gjohnson_3</a> with a solid 9-under tonight, despite having a bad caddie (me). <a href="https://t.co/xNuGy7Sgzu">pic.twitter.com/xNuGy7Sgzu</a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— PickandPop (@PickAndPopNet) <a href="https://twitter.com/PickAndPopNet/status/1763063696660562108?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">— The Winning Difference (@thewinningdiff1) <a href="https://twitter.com/thewinningdiff1/status/1762864885493362857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Ron Sen, MD, FCCPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02421945373895318335noreply@blogger.com