Overarching themes include the power of incremental gains, the value of persistence, and the need to track progress to achieve your goals. How do we spend our time? How do we spend our money? How much investment do we make in ourselves?
Quotes and basketball relevance.
"Success is doing a half dozen things really well, repeated five thousand times." Do well what you do a lot. Identify what you want to do exceptionally well and focus on excellence in those areas.
"Knowledge uninvested is wasted." Apply what you know. The RULE OF 2's means that it takes two minutes to study a new skill, two weeks of steady practice to incorporate it, and two months of work before you apply it successfully.
Link to "Box Drills". Courtesy Herb on Hoops Facebook group.
"Gratitude is acknowledging there are people in your life who have done things for you that you couldn't do for yourself." Our job as coaches is to help take you where you cannot go by yourselves. Our satisfaction comes from seeing your improvement as a team and individually.
"All winners are trackers. You cannot improve something until you measure it." SMART actions matter. Specific-measurable-attainable-realistic-timely. Track your time reading, training, free throws made and taken (percentage), your consecutive shots made, your scores in drills like Pitino 168 and "251".
"The key to success is this: are you learning each day?" Warren Buffett asks, "Do you go to bed smarter than when you woke up?" We cannot accomplish this solely by speaking, but by listening, observing, doing, and reading.
Bill Parcells remarked, "Confidence comes from proven success." No sixteen seed had ever beaten a top seed in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. That record now stands at 1-135 after the UMBC Retrievers hammered Virginia last night.
Lagniappe:
Lunges from Alan Stein. Options include varying the pivot foot, using weighted balls, or weights.