"Everything matters at the end of the year." - Kevin Eastman
Loyola has an inspirational "Wall of Culture."
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"We want the guards to rebound down"...at the end of the clip, Ben Richardson blocks out the shooter and gets the rebound leading to the final possession. Moser shares his excitement at having received a "Final Four" jacket, that coaches who've reached the Final Four now receive. He shares that Loyola is the largest Jesuit school.
"You have to be relentless with what you want," speaking of the jump their program made in the Missouri Valley Conference.
He wrote a book, All In, starting journalling under Rick Majerus. "What's it like coaching with Rick Majerus?" He was no Golden Boy along the way, experiencing failures that he didn't allow to define him. "Write a book that you'd be proud to have your kids read."
He shares the Dabo Sweeney, "defining moment." Everybody comes out of high school as the star player and faces a different challenge in college. His defining moment was perseverance through failure.
He discusses his great mentor, Tony Barone, who had played at Duke. "He was about the right things - family, relationships, accountability."
"Accountability is a sign of love."
Brendan Suhr remarks, "you can't be a great coach unless you're a great parent." It's a critical but difficult balance (that belongs to many careers).
Suhr adds that a client told him, "I don't believe in that soft coaching stuff." He watched the coach cuss out his players. "You can't talk to your players like that." The coach told him, "you don't understand." Suhr thought, "I'd already won two championships and a Gold Medal by that time" and said, "I want you to go home and practice the exact same coaching style on your wife and children tonight...would you want your kids playing for someone that treated them like you're treating your guys?"
They're doing some podcasts with the team on Zoom and going to read and discuss Kobe's book, The Mamba Way."
"It's easy...to be All-American Netflix...or 2k."
He discusses friends who start every day as though they're going to the office, regardless of the (current) situation.
"Take an inventory of what you have (weights, track, court)...build relationships."
"Find ways to remain more connected than ever."
"We have our academic advisor coordinating tutoring through Skype and Zoom."
He is working on himself through Synergy studying the game. "Learn the game." Barone sent him to clinics and NBA practices and had him bring back notes. So much of the coaching game has become recruiting. Take advantage of the opportunity to learn with your time at home.
Suhr discusses meeting so many great coaches along the way.
"Be a lifelong learner" because "you don't know what you don't know." Carve out time to "get better at your craft."
Summary: (it's about life, not just basketball.)
Be relentless.
Don't let failure define you.
Be about the right things - family, relationships, accountability.
What's your DEFINING MOMENT?
What's it like to play for you?
Learn the game as a lifelong learner.
Find ways to overcome today's (lockdown) challenges.
Lagniappe: Coach Suhr is one of those guys who's forgotten more than most of us could ever know. He shares a way to get into "horns."
Lagniappe 2: Horns Down.
Five years ago we played a vastly superior team and "lucked" into beating them with simple actions. We ran "horns down" five times and got seven points (1.4 points/possession), great for seventh grade. The other team switched into zone because they couldn't guard the down screens.
Lagniappe 3: Basketball is a lot like Scrabble. It's about points per turn, you can score a lot with simple actions (two-letter words), and strategy matters to contain your opponent.