Total Pageviews

Monday, May 3, 2021

Basketball: The Wonder of Doing More to Becoming More, Plus Double Lagniappe



"More is more." Players tire of hearing the same voice and message. Mix it up. Michael Jordan told Carolina assistant Roy Williams, "I'll work as hard as anyone here has ever worked." Williams answered, "you have to work harder than that." 

"Champions do extra." - James Kerr, in Legacy

Kevin Eastman tells players to do "unrequired work."

Dan Pink, author of Drive, reminds us to "do five more."  

"The only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Anon

“It’s never crowded along the extra mile.” — Wayne Dyer

"The magic is in the work." - Brad Stevens

"And then some is not necessarily something big. It is making a habit doing the seemingly small things." - David Cottrell in Tuesday Morning Coaching

Coach John Wooden said of Bill Walton, "he never got tired of doing the little things (like footwork)." 

"Repetitions make reputations." 

Lagniappe. TeachHoops.com on spacing (again, "more is more")



Lagniappe 2. Coach Randy Brown shares a piece on screening your own defender to defeat switching defenses