Angelo Garono

Youngstown State University ‘24 #goguins🐧

[Eurobasket @EurobasketNews]

American Dwayne Cohill had an amazing evening in the last round for the Spisski Rytieri, receiving a Player of the Week award for round 1 in the Slovakian league.

@therealdwayne35
@YSUMensHoops

[David Garono @DavidGarono]

What a wonderful kid! Great job Thomas!

[USU Men's Hoops @USUBasketball]

Welcome HOME @USUCoachCalhoun!

#AggiesAllTheWay

[Vargo @vargo_alex]

After a great visit I am truly blessed to be able to announce that I am committed to UNF! I can’t thank the staff enough for believing in me and giving me this amazing opportunity!! Let’s get to work💪 #COMMITTED #AGTG #SWOOP

[Johnny Lovelace Jr @JohnLovelaceJr1]

Class of 2024 @JordanLLovelace Is a 6’3 skilled combo guard with a nice feel and High Iq for the game.
He shot an efficient 53% from the field
And also shot 37% from the three
Looking for opportunities from all levels
High ceiling and very coachable
Check Him out‼️‼️⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Johnny Lovelace Jr @JohnLovelaceJr1]

All glory to god…🙏🏽Im coming home🏡 what’s good panther nation??🖤💛

[YSU Men’s BBall Managers @YSUManagers]

Last day to vote penguin nation. Let’s get us to Phoenix!!!

[Robb Schmidt 🐧 @YSU_Robb]

Cast your vote for our guys!!

[YSU Men’s BBall Managers @YSUManagers]

LETS GO PENGUIN NATION‼️ Head over to this tweet and select us to for our first round game!

[YSU Men's Basketball @YSUMensHoops]

Block or Charge? 🤔

Any thoughts, @RexChapman?

[Coach Batman @GothamProspects]

6'5 Combo in 2025, @gabriel_dales19 had a fantastic day on his visit to Ohio yesterday. The shotmaking playmaker has fantastic size for his position, deep range and as confident as they come. Top tier trash talker!

Low & Mid Majors will be courting him fast. DM for more info!

[Bron’s Best @LBJsBest]

Nah this LeBron vs Jordan graphic kinda speaks for itself. 😭

[Joe Tipton @JoeTipton]

NEWS: Three-star center Eli Delaurier tells me he’s committed to Providence.

Will reclassify to 2023 and join the team for the upcoming season.

Story: https://t.co/lzdYkEZsLB

[YSU Men's Basketball @YSUMensHoops]

🚧🦺🧰🧱

Guins At Work

🐧 #GoGuins

[LeBron History 🏀 @bronhistory]

LeBron was hitting shots from the logo before it was cool.

[Wes Gobble @WesGobble12]

50/56 from 3🫣. Beat my last month score by 2 shots

[YSU Men's Basketball @YSUMensHoops]

Mark Your 📆!

We have announced our 2023-24 non-conference schedule!

▶️ 11 games
▶️ 6 games at Beeghly Center
▶️ Opponents from A-10, B1G, Sun Belt, MAC

🗒️: https://t.co/8DwqmYVjj4

#GoGuins

[LeBron History 🏀 @bronhistory]

Every LeBron hater needs to watch this.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

After the 2018 NCAA Tournament, Virginia coach Tony Bennett was lost.

His team collapsed in one of the biggest upsets of all time, losing as a 1-seed to 16-seed UMBC.

He debated all offseason how he would address the loss and the team.

His first words in 2019 would set the tone for their memorable season.

Tony Bennett debated how he would talk to his team, but his wife had an idea. She had attended a series of TED Talks in Charlottesville in 2014 and one talk stuck with her. It was about storytelling and adversity, it was called How the Story Transforms the Teller.

And this is how a TED Talk motivated the Virginia basketball team to become national champions.

Tony Bennett watched the TED Talk and took so many powerful lessons, but most of all, he learned the power of adversity and the stories that we tell ourselves. At the bottom, there is a link to the video of the TED Talk, and I included some great quotes throughout.

After watching the talk, Tony Bennett had an idea. On the first practice in October, instead of getting out on the court, he had his team watch this 17-minute TED Talk.

In the TED Talk, the speaker Donald Davis says, “You’re not telling the story to change what happened. You’re telling the story to change you.” And that is what the Cavaliers did. They told their story. It allowed them to accept what happened in 2018 and move on from how they felt.

Kyle Guy, starting shooting guard, talked about how much the loss hurt him and even how they needed a police escort after the game because they received death threats. He said, “For me, it's never forgetting it, but definitely trying to move past it to where I'm not hanging my head on it.”

Assistant Coach Jason Williford told his story about how he didn’t shave or leave the house for three days. Finally after 3 days and talking to his wife, he knew it was time to get up and rewrite Virginia's story in 2019.

Virginia, with a few lucky bounces and calls, would go on to win the 2019 national championship.

As part of his own story, Tony Bennett said at the game, “If you learn to use adversity right, it will buy you a ticket to a place you can’t go to any other way. I think (last year’s loss to UMBC) bought us a ticket to a national championship.”

Takeaway 1:
Growth only happens when you accept your past and then learn from your mistakes, adversity, and "failures".

Challenges will happen. Mistakes will happen. It is your choice how you respond and learn from those events. Choose to respond and not react.

Buddha once said that life is suffering and there will always be pain. By accepting it and moving forward, you take ownership on what you can control. You begin to think “Why not me?” instead of “Why me?”

Takeaway 2:
The most dangerous stories you make up are the ones that diminish your worthiness.

You tell yourself stories every day. Those stories will determine your attitude, mindset, and habits moving forward. It will drive your perceptions of reality and start to form your confidence beliefs and self-limiting beliefs.

In Donald Davis’ TED Talk, he emphasizes the power that one story can have on your perception of reality. Choose to re-frame your stories and overcome those self-limiting beliefs because that's how you move you forward.

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."
- Napoleon Hill

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[UncoveringTheTruth (commentary) @shendy456]

The 2016 Cavs were a superteam but the 1996 Bulls were not??????

2016 Cavs
All Stars: LeBron
All NBA: LeBron

1996 Bulls
All Stars: Jordan + Pippen
All NBA: Jordan + Pippen
All Defense: Jordan + Pippen + Rodma
MVP: Jordan (Pippen finished 5th)
6MOTY: Kukoc