Friday, March 26, 2021

Basketball: Searching for Consistent Improvement and Information to Save Lives

"You need a membership to those places where you are most likely to achieve your goals." - Joe Holder 

Frequent growth places - the library, the weight room, the gym. Life rewards improvement. Study harder, get better grades. Exercise more, feel stronger and more energetic. Investing in ourselves costs us - time, recreation, money. 

But what hinders us? How do we bypass distractions? Consider these, including meditating on it, incrementalism, forgetting perfection, and embracing the suck. Write our program, the habits that make us. 


Joe Holder, MasterClass

Plateaus interrupt the ascent. For example, when we lose weight, it's not a straight line. Usually, there's a metabolic reset and then additional weight loss if we continue the program. Overcome plateaus. 

Tom Brady didn't become Tom Brady overnight. He had setbacks along the way, including missing an entire season with injury. He went a decade without winning a championship. Persist. 


Drill. Reverse, Catch, and Drive Drill from Giorgio Gandolfi, The Complete Book of Offensive Basketball Drills


Cut (fake) toward one side and then reverse to the other, where a ball sits on a chair. Grab the ball, reverse pivot, and attack the basket, scoring on one dribble. Alternate sides. Add difficulty by using time constraints. As a single player workout, it also conditions. 

Set Play. UVA attacks the Syracuse 2-3 zone. Syracuse back defenders chase high which UVA attacks with screens and passes to the corner. 


Summary:
  • Frequent the growth places.
  • Overcome distractions.
  • Work through plateaus.
  • Persist.
  • Discover a new individual drill 
  • UVA beats the Orange zone

Lagniappe. "Stay in your lane." As a physician for 40 years, I am. 

"When you get to where you are going, the first thing you do is take care of the horse that got you there." - Anonymous

Lagniappe 2. “Coronavirus Today” - “Science isn’t enough to save us.” 


  1. “Personal, pervasive, and permanent...” https://www.npr.org/2021/03/24/980776808/how-to-talk-and-listen-to-a-teen-with-mental-health-struggles

  2. The ABCs of the CDC and the 3 foot rule. Good enough? https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/03/experts-3-foot-rule-schools-problematic-light-covid-variants

  3. The myth that COVID-19 is not an issue for children and schools has long been dispelled. https://www.masslive.com/coronavirus/2021/03/covid-cases-in-massachusetts-schools-increase-again-with-682-students-and-228-staff-members-testing-positive.html

  4. “Helmet ventilation...a therapy whose time has come? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778089

  5. Prior infection is only partially protective. Variants are important in this. We need to be wearing masks indefinitely for these reasons. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2100362?query=featured_home

  6. COVID-19 cases are now rising slightly in the US. Look at the map of the US and Florida, especially Miami. “Canaries in the coal mine.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

  7. This. Is. Not. Over. India. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/26/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

  8. “Science isn’t enough to save us.” I saw a patient recently who occasionally ate breakfast with a COVID denier. “It’s a hoax, a conspiracy.” The person refused to wear masks or socially distance. He died...from COVID-19. Beliefs can kill. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00731-7

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