Develop Our Own Basketball "Flash Cards"

Developing "Athlete Mindset Cards" is an alternative to buying commercially available ones. The quality of those available appears intriguing. 

Disadvantages: 

• Time and energy expended
• Not "off the shelf"

Advantages: 

• Inexpensive
• Immediately available for distribution
• Enduring and modifiable with time
• Customized to our philosophy
• Solicit team input "this is who we are"
• Easily distributed to players (e.g. email)
• "This is the way." Everyone gets on the same page. 
• Can specify for basketball or generalized domains

TOUGHNESS

Core values of TEAMWORK, IMPROVEMENT, ACCOUNTABILITY

Seamless with PSYCHOLOGY of RESILIENCE, ATHLETICISM

"THRIVE UNDER PRESSURE"

Transformational and transmitted from veteran to young players

"SHARED TEAM OWNERSHIP"

A "FORCE MULTIPLIER" that makes everyone better

"Real" not "Fake toughness" of trash talk and stare downs 

AVAILABLE philosophy "In the Moment" 

Lagniappe. Shooting drill. 

Drill: Dagger 3’s Shooting

Split into 2 teams. 1) Offensive rebound. 2) Kick it out. 3) Make the one more pass. 4) Knock down the 3.

Make = 3pts
Any bounce off of a miss = -1
First team to a set score, wins pic.twitter.com/T5aeBijkNZ

— Coach Tony Miller (@tonywmiller) July 2, 2025

Lagniappe 2. A young player who gets it. Success begins inside each of us as we fight the daily battles.  Quote from Hugo Gonzalez, Celtics draft choice in The Boston Globe... “Playing for Real Madrid Academy since I was 10, it was almost like playing for a team that winning was a must every year for every title,” he said. “So I’m pretty used to team success. It’s the first and the main thing for the whole season. It’s nothing that I need to learn. It’s something that I already have in my DNA. So I think that’s going to help a franchise like the Celtics too and I hope that it does.”