Maximize your value. Solve the paradox between individual excellence and team play.
Start with the TTPP framework - technical (skill), tactical (strategy), physical, and psychological - develop to impact winning. Give your coach reasons to get and keep you on the floor.
Use the window. Learn how to use the backboard to increase shooting percentage. Make the square your ally. Become "Glass Masterson."
Become more efficient. Adding a workout partner boosts efficiency and competition. With a rebounder you can get up many more shots while searching for your personal bests. As the passer focus on finding your partner's shooting pocket with each pass. Habits matter. Drag a 'middling' teammate into the upper echelon of skill.
Attack off the catch. You are 'most open' on the catch. Leverage that advantage with a 'STAMPEDE'. Disallow defenders time to adjust.
Grow athletic explosion. Separate as a better athlete. Unrequired work in the weight room, with your jumprope, and plyometrics pay you in minutes, role, and recognition.
Become a versatile finisher. Finish with either hand from either side off either foot or both feet. A good place to start is 'box drills', back to the basket, pivoting into explosive attack with one dribble moves.
Track everything. "Winners are trackers." If you take a hundred free throws, keep seeking your personal best.
These simple shooting drills raise your accuracy and conditioning.
Study your mentor's mentors. As a player, I idolized Sam Jones and Pete Maravich. Sam was king of the bank shot.
Self-assess with a 1-minute checkup. What do you need today? Do you need rest or to go hard? Is it more skill day or strength and conditioning? Do you know your strengths and weaknesses and how to improve both?
Find a mentor. You don't need a personal relationship with KD to learn from him.
Study how he lowers his center of gravity to change direction and pace. Even as a big guy, he plays low to high.
Takeaways:
- Use TTPP to impact winning.
- Become 'Glass Masterson'
- Get a partner
- Winners track and seek personal bests.
- Build your athletic explosion.
- "Stampede."
- Become a versatile finisher.
- Find a mentor (even if you never meet them)
Lagniappe (something extra). Book summary from Kevin Eastman's excellent, Why the Best Are the Best. "He believes that clarity and simplification are increasingly becoming important. His philosophy has been: “success lies in simplicity, confusion lives in sophistication”. He knows that if he simplifies his thoughts, philosophies and strategies he can call on them when he needs them the most and get into execution mode without hesitation."
"You get better by doing. You don’t get better by talking about doing."
Lagniappe 2. "Champions do extra." - James Kerr, Legacy
