"You have to analyze your own games." - Garry Kasparov
Learn across disciplines. Chess sets fly off the shelves and 62 million households have watched Netflix's Queen's Gambit. What can former World Champion Kasparov teach us about basketball?
"It's the ultimate inspiration...find out the nature of your mistakes...and good moves."
"You have to be honest, brutally honest, relentlessly honest." Execution begins with decision-making and completes with skill.
"Don't look for excuses." Find answers, not excuses.
"Better that you understand the nature of your mistakes." Don't repeat mistakes.
"Find your mistakes immediately." (We lost one game last season because I didn't adjust our defense quickly. An extended defense against a more athletic team was a rookie mistake. Sometimes we can't recover from a mistake. See the off ramps.)
"Analyze your game while it's fresh in your mind."
"If you won the game, it doesn't mean you didn't make mistakes." (Who doesn't remember the black and white, slow motion, back-and-forth rewind of allowing dribble penetration, committing a bad foul, or not blocking out?)
"The greatest mistake is gravity of your past success." Humility punishes arrogance.
"Analyze the masters."
"Studying classical games always helps."
"You have to learn from all these games...trust me, your chess (game) will be more creative."
"It will help you at the crucial moment." (Brad Stevens studied the final minutes of over a thousand games looking for edges. Unconscious competence takes years of training.
Lagniappe: "You can't fool dogs, kids, and basketball players." Truth matters. Great players thirst for coaching. They want edges.
Lagniappe 2: from Haruki Murakami
Lagniappe 3: Calipari "Perfection" (We can't do this but maybe you can.)
