Arkansas hires Boston Celtics' Remy Cofield as general manager, according to report. Director of scouting for the World Champions and GM of the Maine Celtics #wps#arkansas#razorbacks: https://t.co/uPzUlGlFH4
ESPN Sources: Jerome Allen will become USA Basketball’s head coach for the USA AmeriCup qualifying team and its February games vs. Cuba. He replaces Dave Joerger, who returned to the NBA as a Bucks assistant. Allen will coach a USA team working to qualify for 2025 FIBA AmeriCup.
UPDATE: Yoshinobu Yamamoto was extremely impressed by the Dodgers' presentation, including the 'support staff' in attendance at the meeting (incl. Freeman, Betts, Ohtani, Smith). A 10+ year contract term has supposedly been offered. Now we wait...
Shohei Ohtani will defer $68 million of his $70 million annual salary with the Dodgers, per @FabianArdaya.
That means Ohtani will receive just $2M annually, with the rest coming (without interest) from 2034 to 2043.
Ohtani requested this to give the team payroll flexibility.
A lot of coaches are too scared to confront the key guys on a team. They figure it has the same impact to indirectly make a point by rippin into the 12th guy and hoping the star listens. I have no respect for that approach. You have to set the tone with your main players.
Coaching requires holding your most talented players accountable when their actions negatively affect the team.
In preparation for the 2008 Olympics, Kobe Bryant, the Captain of the USA Basketball Team, started to play in a manner that was hurting the group.
LeBron James and Dwayne Wade looked at their Head Coach, Coach K, and asked him what he would do about it.
Coach K said, “I’ll take care of it.”
He didn’t want to confront the legendary superstar, but he knew it was necessary.
This is how he handled it…
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After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer.
He wasn't playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice.
Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.”
Coach replied,
“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don't worry about what you're doing.”
Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.”
And then he recommended that Brady start meeting with Greg Harden, a sports psychologist who worked in Michigan's athletic department.
Brady went to Harden's office and whined, “I'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.”
Harden simply replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.”
“So that's what I did,” Brady said. “They'd put me in for those 2 reps, man, I'd sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'”
“And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.”
Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.”
Takeaway 1:
Greg Harden telling Brady to just focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban.
“People come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,” Cuban explained. “They're stuck in a job they don't like. They're stuck working for a boss they don't like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.”
“I just tell them, 'Be great.'”
“The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job. You can't just always go to your boss and say, 'Give me the promotion, or I'm out of here.'” You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.'
“So when you're stuck, you've gotta find it within yourself to say, 'Ok, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great.'
Because if you're great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.”
Takeaway 2:
I've written before about “lead measures”—the actions and behaviors that predictably drive success.
The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) write, is that “a lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.”
To achieve your goals, they recommend (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), apply a disproportionate energy to the things that are in your control.
Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did, that’s what drove his success.
In his first media call after he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?”
Brady said he was aware of that. “And I know he’s a heck of a player,” Brady said. “But I’ve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.”
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“I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady
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A su llegada a Dodger Stadium, el nombre de Julio Urías, ya no estaba en su casillero o locker en el Clubhouse. Su lugar, ahora pertenece al veterano Kolten Wong. Los Dodgers también han tapado con mantas los murales del lanzador en sus instalaciones tras su arresto por un delito menor de violencia doméstica. Urias actualmente tiene su fecha en la corte fijada para el 27 de septiembre en Los Ángeles, mientras continúa la investigación de MLB.
Dave Roberts dijo que se había enterado a su llegada al Clubhouse y que fue informado que se trataba de una decisión administrativa.
El mensaje es contundentemente claro.
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