Coaches know the hundreds of ways to lose. Many players "just play."
Coach Bob Knight wrote, The Power of Negative Thinking to emphasize that "basketball is a game of mistakes." Restated, "Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes."
We're seeing "pandemic bingo" and "quarantine bingo." How about bad habit bingo? See the world around us, find good ideas, improve them, and make them our own.
Turn this framework into desired habits, books to read, concepts to study, and so on.
Lagniappe: via @BBallImmersion (SLOB, corner stagger) time and space perfected
Lagniappe 2: Book notes from Knight's The Power of Negative Thinking.This seems too easy, but I get why it works. The curl layup pass is made after the ball is passed inbound with perfect timing. Consider adding this sideline inbound play that worked to your playbook. I will. pic.twitter.com/WyhYCnINsW— Chris Oliver (@BBallImmersion) June 3, 2020
Preparing an organization or team to win means knowing and executing what to do AND what not to do.
Lagniappe 3: The first-year student at the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis) learns five responses:
- "Yes, sir."
- "No, sir."
- "Aye, aye, sir."
- "Right away, sir."
- "I don't know but I'll find out, sir."
Good answers for all of us to learn.