"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." - Confucius
Study great coaches. Find what's in plain sight and an occasional secret.
Nick Saban's a winner, a complex guy. As a boy, he washed cars in his father's service station. If Nick missed a spot, Papa Saban made him rewash the whole car. Do it right the first time.
Some say he's overpaid. But Saban raised over half a billion dollars for Alabama and helped upgrade the school by attracted hordes of National Merit Scholars.
He wins...seven National Titles including one at LSU.
Here are a handful of quotes from the Management Ideas of Nick Saban. The authors divide the book into MINDSET, PREPARATION, and PERFORMANCE.
"We cannot let those circumstances affect us from achieving those goals." (No distractions)
"Every minute of every day you're selling something. You're either selling positive or you're selling negative."
"Are you spending your time or are you investing your time?"
"Set out to do a good job and do that job so well that nobody can do it any better."
"Zero in on the mistakes that were made in the loss, make the proper adjustments, and then perform and execute in a better manner."
"Everybody wants to be a success. Not everybody is willing to do what they have to do to achieve it."
"You cannot be a good leader if you do not care about other people."
Lagniappe. Rebounding, the possession ender or extender...
Get possession and do something with our possessions.
- D-boards favor positioning and toughness.
- O-boards favor anticipation and aggressiveness.
- There's no one way. "Hit and get" or "block out" or just "get the ball."
- Stationing a guard near the foul line gets about three d-boards a game...
- Find the outlet receiver (ideally above the free throw line with back to the sideline)
I can already see the comments about Lawson being a woman, so I’ll turn it over to Brian Scalabrine, who said this on the latest Celtics Talk podcast:
“She’s insanely good. She’s insanely good as a coach. And it wasn't like -- it's not one of those things where, well, ‘she's good for a female.’ No, no, no, no. She walked into practice and she commanded practice right from the jump. She was giving people tips and people's jaws were dropping. She's elite and what she does, and the issue with her going to Duke, and she really hadn't got a chance to coach this year because of COVID, but I had five conversations with her, and I was immediately like ... to me, Kara Lawson I thought like from the jump, she has head coaching material within five minutes to talking with her. And that’s just me meeting her on my own. And then I started asking the other coaches about her, and it was, like, authentically, they were like this person, she is a completely different level as a basketball coach ... I don't even want to go down the road of saying this would be a historic hire, I think she might be the most qualified for the job. When you think about these players and who they already know, and you're bringing in somebody that Brad respects and the players respect, to me I think it makes the most sense.”
Whom do I think gets the job? Juwan Howard.