Tell the story. Craft your process, target audience, and respect the reader.
Find an idea. Do the research. Outline the piece. Introduce and buttress the main idea early. Have clear primary and secondary goals.
Serve readers both Entree and Dessert (Lagniappe). Garnish with references and images. Season with rules of rhetoric.
Put the piece aside (rest the meat). Return the following day or week. Review for simplicity, clarity, utility.
Trim the fat - adverbs, cliches, filler, passive voice, and two-dollar words.
Cook an enduring message. Persist and refine. Be better.
Lagniappe- Hat tip: Chris Oliver
Lessons from the Tournament
Spacing starts everything. Create gaps. Attack on the catch. Drive and kick. Drive to score.
Help! Tag the cutters/rollers. Close out to protect. Find the shooters AND the non-shooters. Helpside "I" was in place. Wall up under control. Know how you're covering screens (over, under, through). Switch small on small.
Inbounding. Cut and leave. Overload the ball side.
Offensive concepts. Serial ball screens...high ball screen setup off DHO (LUC)...with a back door option (below)...keep plays alive with player and ball movement
