Basketball Lessons from James Cameron Plus Curry Without the Ball

 "Curiosity is how you're going to find your stories." - James Cameron

James Cameron directs Hollywood epics - The Terminator, Alien, Titanic, Avatar, and more. He advises potential directors to immerse themselves in all aspects of film. It's the same for sport. Learn across domains. 

"Before you can radiate, you have to absorb...it's a law of thermodynamics."

"Learn the language..." In fact, every team develops its own language. 

Sometimes we reach an understanding with silence (sometimes not). Aliens 1986

"Understand all the jobs on the set..." 

"It's a fusion of both of the sides..." of the craft (creation and technical)."

"The art of film directing is the art of making it happen in real time." (What we and others choreograph in practice, opposition seeks to disrupt.)

"It's hard to be a film maker without being conversant in simple visual effects (e.g. green screens)." 

"Fortune favors the prepared mind..." (preparation is more than practice, it's practicing the right way at the right time. Preparing against multiple zones differs from preparation versus full court man pressure.)

"You're laying track in front of a moving train."

"What's your preparation...your pre-imagining of the scene?" (When it goes well, our vision and reality converge.)

"Know your most important scene?" (Bob Knight said the first five minutes of the second half were critical.)

"Be a sponge." Make friends with people in different parts of the craft.

"The only way to really learn is by doing." 

"It's a collaborative...the director is like a war President." 

"Everybody serves the movie (game)." (How are you advancing the story by excelling in your role?)

"People don't do their best work if they're not respected and appreciated and have a voice." (Eric Spoelstra discusses collaborative conflict.)

"Somebody like Ron Howard is a team player...he's great at it...he takes a lot of time complimenting people." 

"You have to inspire and you inspire by communicating." (But aspiration and inspiration are fulfilled by preparation and perspiration.)

"You've got to see the wonder of it in front of you."

"Share the joy of creation."

"Film is about compromise...decisions are binary...and forever." (Practice devoted to A takes time away from B and C. It's the competition among scarce resources.)

"Keep your heart in the game...and you make it fun." 

"It's the sum total of all of your inputs." (Experience, reading, dreams, movies, etc.)

An iconic view of the tundra from Kirosawa's Dersu Uzala

"Keep your eyes open for the magic." (Project not only what is by what might be.)

"How do you bottle the lightning?"

"You've got to be that flowing water..." (Water cuts through rock over millennia. Powerful irony emerges in his water quote as he directed Titanic...)

Summary:

• Immerse yourself in the craft.
• Learn the language. 
• Be a sponge.
• Know your most important scene (be good at what we do most).
• Everybody serves the game.
• At our best, vision and reality converge.
• People don't do their best work if they're not respected and have a voice.

Lagniappe. Billy Donovan calls it the 95, what you do when you don't have the ball. Mason Waters analyzes Steph Curry without the ball. Study film and apply the lessons.

 

Basketball: Favorite Horns Sets and Triple Lagniappe (Coach and Player Development Extras)

Formations remind me of chess openings. They help put facilitators, screeners, and scorers in positions to succeed. Run hard to defend actions. 

Horns fills both corners to flatten the defense and opens the middle with the twin high posts. Any action runs to either side. Simple works. 

While basketball (according to Coach K) is about "making plays not running plays," moments arise where set plays create high quality shots. 

Pick-and-roll. Obviously, you can run a high ball screen to either side. But 'elbow get' type action creates another angle and action defenses are less used to seeing. Your read determines whether you reject, drive, pass to the roller or popper, or get the mid-range shot. 

Double pindowns. The girls ran this with seventh graders and scored a major playoff upset over a superior team. We ran it five times and scored three hoops and a free throw (1.4 points/possession). It "forced" the opponent into a zone defense and the other coach was truly pissed off. 

Backscreen (Nurse). Geno Auriemma ran this for Kia Nurse. If it's good enough for Geno...

DHO with weakside downscreen. When it works, it sets up back cuts later instead of the DHO. 

"Bucks action." I call this Bucks action because the Bucks ran similar stuff a bit when Jason Kidd coached. It sets up multiple off-ball screens and potential mismatches for size and speed depending on where you deploy personnel. 

Summary: Horns simple sets.

• Alternative pick and roll
• Double pindowns
• "Nurse" (Backscreen)
• DHO
• "Bucks action"

Lagniappe. Transformational not transactional 

Lagniappe 2. "Every day is player development day." Jason Tatum didn't get this move out of nowhere. Coach Hanlen explains. 

Lagniappe 3. Retreat dribble. Retreat dribbles are flexible to avoid traps and to 'reset' before a dribble attack into a drive or shot. 

Basketball and Excellence: "Make It, Sell It, Build Awareness." Build your program, practices, and playbook.

"Inspire." No slogan reads, "Mediocrity Above All." Emotion drives excellence. But emotion isn't enough to drive the process. 

Sara Blakely, sole owner of SPANX, a five billion dollar company shares her mantra, "Make it. Sell it. Build awareness." 

You want to make varsity as a freshman. I don't tell players that. Instead, I say, "contribute to the success of the varsity as a freshman." Yes, it's an issue, because upperclass players are fighting for spots, too. 

Make it. Blakely says, "obsess the product." Your product is your size, athleticism, skill, teamwork, knowledge, and resilience. If your product is mediocre, you can't sell it or build awareness. Branding a bad product is a non sequitur; it makes no sense. 

You shape your product even before "cross the red line" onto the court. Are you mentally ready or are you thinking about a school assignment or your friends?  Focus, showing eye contact, go hard every repetition to LEAVE AN IMPRESSION. 

Improve your product and get teammates to work out with you. Help make them better, make yourself better. 

Craft a vision. Be worthy opponents. Compete. Never quit. Plenty of teams will have more talent; don't allow them to have more heart, more will. 

Sell it. You sell it by performing your best. Remember Don Miguel Ruiz's "The Four Agreements." The fourth is "always do your best." It won't be great every day. The shots might not fall but that only degrades your movement, intensity, blocking out, setting screens, and getting loose balls if you allow it to. 

You never know when another coach is watching and telling herself, "I want that player on our club." 

Former Pistons coach Chuck Daly said, "I'm a salesman." He was selling his style and substance to players who decide whether to give it their best or less. There's a saying on Wall Street, "Price makes news." Your performance (price) draws interest. 

Build awareness. Self-promotion gets attention, but "word of mouth" attention is better than self-promotion or advertising. "You've got to see this kid play." A coach suggested I was overhyping a player. He then coached her for three days at a camp. "Potentially the best player to come out of the city." 

"If you build it, they will come" was the tag line from Field of Dreams about the Iowa cornfield that became a magical ballpark. Decades later Major League Baseball will play the Field of Dreams game. 

Drill. "Simple" teaches how to play. Play 2-on-2 progression to build offensive and defensive skill. 

1. Give and go 
2. Pick-and-roll
3. DHO 
4. "Anything goes." 

Set play. Build our mental portfolio of hard-to-defend actions. Horns "3 Series"

The Horns "3 series" includes options like pindowns, staggered screening, back cuts and "triangle" offense. 

Lagniappe. A parent asks, "does my child have to specialize in basketball early?" Research says, "No." 

 

A Dirty Dozen Ways How to Lose Basketball Games

Teach teams the painful paths to defeat. Use the mental model of inversion to overcome. Experienced coaches have suffered each of these. 

1. Force shots. Out of range, contested, off-balance, and 'my turn' shots lose. Pete Carril says, "bad shooters are always open." Everyone doesn't get the same amount of ammunition.

2. Turn the ball over. A turnover is worse than a zero percentage shot because you can't rebound a turnover. 

3. Commit bad fouls. Bad fouls create high percentage, uncontested shots (free throws), and add to player and team fouls. Don't "double down" with a dumb foul after a bad shot or turnover. 

4. Don't communicate. "Silent teams lose." 

5. Don't get back. Bad transition defense equals easy shots for opponents. Easy shots translate into losses. 

6. Squander timeouts. Whether needed for rest, substitution, organizing a play, or stopping a run, timeouts are crucial. We won a game because the opposing coach used all his timeouts in the first half to avoid five second calls. When he needed them late, the cupboard was bare. 

7. Miss free throws. As Tom Hellen says, "teams that can't shoot free throws last as long in the postseason as dogs who chase cars." We can't erase those memories. 

8. Play "Night at the Opera" ball... me, me, me. Selfishness decreases effort (why should I run?), shot quality ("quality of the shot relates to the quality of the pass"), and lowers energy. "The ball has energy." 

9. Disengage. Everyone needs full focus in practice and on every possession. One play at any time can sabotage championship dreams. 

10. Play one. "The ball scores" so defenders have to play 1.5 players, their own and help if off the ball. Failure to help and rotate aren't lessened by "my guy didn't score." The Navy SEALs say, "two is one and one is none." 

11. Be soft on the glass. Poor rebounding results in fewer possessions for us and more for opponents. Poor position and lack of toughness deny defensive boards. Lack of anticipation or aggressiveness stop offensive rebounding. 

12. Play in traffic (space jam). Poor spacing shrinks offensive areas. Driving or passing into traffic risks turnovers and creates lower percentage shots because of "contestedness." Win in space. 

Because one or two possessions decide many games, don't give away games with a handful of bad possessions. 

Behavioral studies show that losing feels about twice as bad as winning feels good. Make avoiding bad plays a priority. 

Summary: Love your losses with corrections. 

• Force shots. 
• Turn the ball over. 
• Commit bad fouls.
• Don't get back.
• Miss free throws.
• "The ball has energy."
• Play in traffic (Space Jam)

Lagniappe. "Separate and finish." Master GO TO and COUNTER moves. "Every day is player development day." Choose one and master it. 

Basketball: Ten Enduring Lessons from Silver Screen Icons

Ideas are the currency of the future. Ideas surround us. Legends of many fields share their imagination and experience on MasterClass. Here are some from the world of film worth incorporating. 

1. Be curious. "Before you can radiate, you have to absorb." - James Cameron

The average person has over 6,000 thoughts per day. Curiosity through listening and reading transforms us. The US Men lose consecutive scrimmages. Love your losses. What takeaways belong? "Help, I need somebody."

Australia reverses the ball into an unchallenged give-and-go. 

Patty Mills gets a speed mismatch and help never comes. "The help can never get beat." 

2. "The director is the keeper of the story." - Ron Howard

Make every practice activity advance the narrative. Keep the essential and cut the fluff. Mano Watsa says, "don't major in the minors." Don't waste time on minutia that doesn't matter. 

3. "Respect gets the best from the people we work with." - James Cameron

Get the most from our people by respecting their time, their knowledge, and their effort. Their opinions matter. Study other coaches. Cameron incorporates the positivity and appreciation that Ron Howard showed his actors and crew. Elite coaches connect with players and staff, knowing them as both players and people. 

4. Don't compartmentalize the humanistic and the technical aspects of process. In coaching, cultivate culture and task-oriented coaching. Work at every aspect of the craft. Study leadership (like James Kerr's Legacy), video, and analytics, too. 

5."The film is made in the editing room." - Ron Howard

Even well-planned films are made on the fly. Akira Kurosawa taught Howard the importance of collaborative problem-solving between writer, director, and producer. Head coach, assistants, and players adjust to change. Gregg Popovich tells players to "figure it out" because timeouts are limited. 

6. "Read. Read. Read. Read. Read." - Werner Herzog 

Expose ourselves to great prose. Herzog's an enormous fan of J.A. Baker, author of The Peregrine. I like Dan Brown (Boys in the Boat), Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival), and Madeleine Blois (In These Girls Hope Is a Muscle.) 

"Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.”

― Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

7."Kill your darlings." 

Our pet strategy or defense may not be right for our team and our people. It's better to let it go than try to pound the square peg into the round hole. I believe in the run and jump defense but our young players couldn't grasp it or my teaching wasn't good enough. 

8. "This is a LOOK AT ME business." - Sam Jackson

Expecting egoless play from elite athletes is unrealistic. If you want the eyeballs and hard-earned cash of fans, don't dismiss them. 

9. "Be on time. Don't be an a*hole." - Helen Mirren 

Create positive culture and mindset at all times. 

10. "The hardest part of the day is getting out of the car at the studio." - Martin Scorsese

Scorsese accepts the daily challenge to be fresh, energetic, creative. He advises us to watch films of the old masters. He credits professor Haig Manoogian for giving him confidence to become a filmmaker and inspiration, which he considered the greatest gift. Inspiring players is an equal blessing.

Lagniappe. Turn the Paige and make teammates better with passing. 

Lagniappe 2. "Every day is player development day." Tips from Drew Hanlen on the shooting pocket. 

Basketball: Set Up Isolations to Get the Odds on Our Side

Don't apply NBA statistics to our team. Maybe we have a dynamite post player or an uncontainable guard getting to the rim. Or maybe a wing with superior one-on-one skills. How do we set up isolations?

Simple is better. Wyc Grousbeck introduced my wife Ellen (the rocket scientist) to Brad Stevens. Coach Stevens answered, "it's not rocket science." The ability to win one-on-one battles often separates extraordinary from other players.

"Great offense is multiple actions."

1. Open a gap (above). 

2. Horns Stagger Iso (multiple options available). I'm partial to having isolation as the second option (gets more players involved instead of watching). 

3. Tufts Backdoor Clear. Make isolation the second option. 

4. Horns cross screen... always remember Jay Bilas' Toughness advice, "set up your cut." 

An alternative is to look first for the lob. 

5. Box Isolation...occupy the weak side with a flare screen. 

Lagniappe. Practice fast to play fast. 

Lagniappe 2. Think in bets. Probability teaches us the improbable will happen. 

Start with a thousand people with a penny, flip and sit the tails flippers. Each flip about half will flip tails and the "heads" flippers remain. After ten flips, one "lucky" flipper "wins." She might say, "I knew today was different. The pancakes tasted better," or some such nonsense. 

But events based on probability don't prove special talent. 

What's your plan to "stand out" or "separate yourself" at tryouts? 

Lagniappe 3. NOVA SLOB Winner 

Basketball: Q and A About Style of Play and Development Plus Lagniappe on Floaters

All things being equal...they never are. Win now or develop now with the goal of winning more later? 

How should we play? Coaches match style of play to our talent, preferences, and opponents. 

The Grinnell "System" plays frenetic ball at hyperspeed. It requires elite conditioning, shooters, depth, unselfishness, and control by the players. 

What's the best style of play? If one best style prevailed, everyone should play it. Varieties have dominated (e.g. Triangle offense) that arguably reflected personnel (Jordan, Bryant) rather than the offense itself.

What's your edge to wear out opponents? Seek an edge (e.g. pick-and-roll), its frequent application, and the discipline to avoid bad shots, turnovers, fouls, and breakdowns. Defensively it could be pressure or packed, changing defenses, or excellence at one (e.g. Syracuse's 2-3 zone). 

But even the best mousetrap may not beat the cleverest mouse. Ball movement, paint touches, and teamwork don't go out of style. 

What generalities exist? Size and power favordominating the ends and speed argues for owning the middle of the court. Military campaigns offer infantry (power), cavalry (transition), and artillery (perimeter attack). 

Sometimes a team arrives with a nuclear option, an unstoppable force. 

How do you create mismatches? But lacking competing armies, with five on five play, favor existing (skill) or created  mismatches (e.g. switches). Get the "mouse in the house." 

Where do the points arise? The UCONN women plan a third in transition, a third on set plays, and a third on three-point shooting. 

UCONN reverse action into give-and-go versus Texas (2018)

What's the early offense if transition fails or is unavailable? Not saying there is one, but find a couple of options to make your own. Pistol, 5-out actions, drag screens, and spread ball screens are just a few. 

What if we need more talent? No coach believes she has enough. The best coaches help the individual play better and the team achieve at a higher level. If we don't devote time and the growth mindset, then we have nobody to blame but ourselves. Every day is player development day. 

"Chance favors the prepared mind." Pasteur and Harden agree. 

How can we simplify our offenses and defenses? Simplify by reducing the number of core actions, by "automating" them through repetition (builds skill and reduces the load on working memory). 

Lagniappe. Make our superpower better thinking and decision-making. Part three of Mental Models shares more ideas. 

Do we want to do this? E.g. run a defense. The run-and-jump was too tough for my girls to implement. The time expenditure to competence would have been excessive. 

Lagniappe 2. Great players add to and refine their game each off-season. Skill isn't accidental. 

Basketball: Advising Players on Building a Brand, Sara Blakely, Plus Triple Mega-Lagniappe

NIL (name, image, and likeness) implementation enables players to be paid for off field activities and representing others. Building a brand has new meaning. 

Value cuts both ways as you get paid for adding value to the sponsor. Value arrives in different ways, from adding eyeballs to driving sales. 

Slogans mean less than fulfillment. For example, Southwest was the low cost airline and Ford emphasized that Quality is Job 1. The advertising campaign "Got Milk" drove milk sales in California though not necessarily nationwide. 

Consider a sports drink. Purveyors of a product want to sell to everyone. There's Gatorade not Haterade. But what about freedom of speech. You have the right to speak your mind. Sponsors have the right not to reward you. 

Individual branding might mean 'crafting a persona' while avoiding controversy upon you and secondarily your sponsor. Anita Bryant's anti-gay activism led to an orange juice boycott and loss of sponsorship in 1977. Donald Sterling's racist rants terminated his association with the NBA. Bob Iger at Disney/ABC terminated Roseanne Barr after racist remarks. Cancel culture matters to sponsors and many buyers. Become radioactive at your peril. 

Abusing alcohol, drugs, and others destroys your brand. Don't expect to see Trevor Bauer pitching on the mound or a brand anytime soon. The exceptional athlete (Michael Phelps) may get away with a misstep but Michael Phelps was an exception. 

Brand development means having both "dos" and "don'ts." Sara Blakely built a multibillion dollar empire from scratch. Here are notes from her SPANX branding presentation on MasterClass.

"You need to have the right packaging." 

Get 'the organic" business (word-of-mouth). Authentic praise is greater than paid praise.

"Consumers became our PR."

"Lead with story...everybody has a story...what's the why?"

Openness and vulnerability lead to connection. 

"Speak to the customer not at the customer...we're in this together." 

Blakely's packaging literally said, "Don't worry, we've got your butt covered." 

STAND OUT. Spanx's packaging was bright red. How will you stand out? 

She enlivened a boring category (shapewear).

Words matter. As Mark Twain wrote, "it's the difference between being hit by lightning or a lightning bug."

Blakely asked herself, "how am I making her feel?" She put cartoons inside the packaging. 

• Was it illustrating the product?
• Was it emphasizing the benefits?
• Was it potentially telling you what's wrong with the competition in a playful and fun way? 

Create energy for your brand. (Many speakers need to train themselves to eliminate extraneous words - um, like, and you know. Some speakers practice in front of a mirror.)

Blakely put small displays near cash registers in Niemann Marcus. The CEO ultimately found out (she had moved $1 million of product) and said, "whatever this girl is doing, let her keep doing it." 

She succeeded because she made it happen...selling "an amazing product that women loved."

She sent a gift basket to Oprah, who later promoted SPANX as "my next favorite thing."

Find ways to connect authentically. 

• Did it make them feel good?
• Did it make them laugh or smile?
• Did it make them learn something or help them?

You need a great product beyond great marketing. "Underpromise and overdeliver."

Be committed. Be relentless. Be great in your space. 

Summary: 

• Add value to get value.
• Connect with your customers.
• Lead with story. What's the why?
• Be authentic.
• Strategize social media.
• Obsess your product.
• You're in a "look at me" business. Avoid critical mistakes.  

Lagniappe. Important lessons from "The Coach's Guide to Teaching"

Kerr's message to Curry is simple, "it's the scoreboard not the scorebook." 

Lagniappe 2. Top plays from Slappin' Glass newsletter. 

Spain PnR set from Ryan Pannone and the G-League

Lagniappe 3. Mental Models, Part 2, Thinking Better. 

We might say, "I'm already a deep thinker...I need no strategic advantage." Munger shares five here.

Opportunity cost, "Are we spending or investing our time."

Parimutuel betting. "How do we measure quality versus price?"

Survival of the fittest. Flexibility and specialization matter. 

Margin of Safety. What's the reward and what's the risk? Buy low on buggy whips?

The Superpower of Incentives. What about money, minutes, and role? 

Basketball: If You're Not Serious About Excellence, Don't Read This

"The audience enters the film through the eyes and the hearts of the characters." - James Cameron 

Sharing some random thoughts for a Saturday. 

What's the "best" warm up? I. Don't. Know. Before big games in big venues (e.g. Boston Garden for high school championships, I've seen five minute "warmups" which frankly are a joke. They don't increase core body temperature, muscle blood flow, maximal oxygen consumption, or range of motion (e.g. dynamic stretching). They don't hone skills. They certainly don't prepare either team for competition. The best we can say is, "it was the same for both teams." 

An empowering warmup would likely include 1) mental (video, mindfulness), 2) physiologic (e.g. athletic performance-focused), and 3) basketball skill-specific elements. 

If you're a lacrosse or volleyball player playing basketball, frankly you're probably not investing the time, focus, and effort to seek basketball excellence. If you are, I apologize in advance.  

1. Exceptional teams connect with the community, the fans. Bring energy to the court and to the classroom. Be "fired up and ready to go" every session. Excellent players and students are. Always do your best. 

2. Introduce memorable characters. "Show, don't tell." 

Sean Connery is introduced above in "Dr. No." You remember Arnold Schwarzenegger's arrival in The Terminator and Hannibal Lector's interrogation of Jody Foster in Silence of the Lambs. 

3. "Make a statement." The Patriots entered the field as a group for their first Super Bowl win, among the biggest upsets in NFL history. 

4. "Be yourself." Al Hrabosky made an unmistakable entry. 

5. "Be ready." In Above the Line, Urban Meyer told his OSU Buckeyes to be ready when they crossed the red line onto the field. Full engagement occurred from that moment. 

6. "Leave an impression." Samuel L. Jackson explained in his MasterClass that your audition is your chance to present the best version of yourself. Even when that job isn't for you, the impression you leave today may get you the next job. "You never get a second chance to make a first impression." Start with a firm handshake and connected eye contact. 

7. "Stand out from the Get Go." UCONN's Geno Auriemma has piloted the Huskies to eleven National Championships. When he scouts with staff, he expects the target of his observations to stand out from the opening tip. If the assistant has to ask whom they are scouting, he explains the player is not headed for Storrs. 

8. "Be intentional." Warmup like Drew Hanlen. 

9. "Develop great habits." I'm partial to Jay Wright's "Get 50."

10. "Be here now." Full mental engagement matters. 

"The brain has a hard time telling the difference between what you're actually experiencing and what you've simply visualized." Mindful breathing, a mental highlight reel, and performance statements help refine our process. 

Basketball: From Synecdoche to Star, Michelangelo to Keller to Wooden

Basketball Friday shares process, practice, and performance. Find something to steal and make your own.  

Screen capture from MasterClass, James Cameron

Create characters. James Cameron says a classic synecdoche is a suit, a generic business person. Cameron introduces Colonel Quaritch in 

Avatar, polished boots striding on a steel floor. They're a 'reveal' about the man. 

Refer to a 'pass first point guard" or a "three and D" guy and reduce them to an archetype, a representation of their play. Of course, call them a possible future Durant, Kawhi, or Taurasi and we paint a different picture. 

Conflicting forces work on the developing player - mindset, family, friends, social media, coaching. For coaching to matter, players need trust and the buy-in to see value added. James Cameron says "the key is to get the actor to a safe place where they can explore and they can feel empowered to go as far as they feel like going." 

Like directors, coaches cast characters. Michelangelo said it was his job to find a sculpture inside a block of marble. When someone called it miraculous that he could create a masterpiece like the Pieta at age 24, he supposedly said that it's not if you've worked your craft eight hours a day since you were a child. 

To avoid injecting our perception and biases is impossible. When the special player emerges, who gives more and has more, they get more. I won't apologize for that. That doesn't mean we ignored everyone else. 

Thomas Keller says time and temperature inform great cooking. Faith and patience (time) flank the top of John Wooden's "Pyramid of Success." From Michelangelo to Keller to Wooden, time illuminates the common thread to greatness.

Drill. Defense turns the player and then effects a give-and-go into a one-on-one basket attack in the forecourt. Work from both ends of the court. 

Work on ball containment and denial. 

Set play. Catch defenders in traffic with scissor cuts and variations. 

1 and 2 finish cuts (left) to leave a skilled 5 with an iso option. 

Lagniappe. Build great habits of pace and pass. 

Lagniappe 2. Villanova finishing, 12 second clip.

"Multiple actions." 

• Reverse pivot. 
• Big clears to open the middle.
• Attack the front foot/hand
• Downhill drive and strong finish (foul) off two feet for power/stability

Lagniappe 3. Educators change behavior. Help players succeed in the classroom. Samuel Thomas Davies shares book summaries like this one on 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing.