Coach Cole Lozano

// 29 // Coaching and inspiring future generations, through life, with the game that I love! ⛹️‍♀️🏀⛹️

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Mike Brown Gold

“We have rules: Protect basket…declare ball…load paint…find most dangerous guy…last guy down weak side…We turn over etc…sprint back…high level next play speed…separates good teams from great"

(Via @NBA_NewYork 🎥)

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

Winners chase toughness with the joy that builds it.

“I’ve got a competitive spirit. I love the grind. You’re going to get out what you put in. I strive to be a leader that builds that mentality of toughness and joy in the work and finding the reward in the work,” Molly Miller

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Buzz Williams shares how entitlement and gratitude are connected and why you can only have one.

"When entitlement is high, gratitude is low."

"Why would gratitude be low? Because you're being selfish. 'Hey, I'm supposed to get this.'"

"If ego and arrogance are a part of entitlement - which they are - then I can't function with the level of gratitude that it takes."

Then he connected the dots:
"If my entitlement is high, my gratitude is low. If my gratitude is low, then I'm not present...You see how they're connected?"

Entitlement pulls you out of the moment.
Gratitude keeps you in it.

Then he had them flip it:
"When gratitude is high, entitlement is low."

You can't be grateful and entitled at the same time.

Entitlement is the enemy of progress. It's the delusion of earning without earning.

Be grateful for the moment and the opportunity.
(🎥@TeamCoachBuzz)

[Buckets Basketball @BucketsBball_]

Green Light Shooting🚦

From Oregon @GoDucksKG

Rules:
•5 minutes
•🏀 1 shooter
•🏀 2 balls with a rebounder & passer
•🏀 Must make 2 shots IN A ROW at each of the 7 spots around 3-pt arc

•Count # of SPOTS completed

On Avg:
25+ = 🟢 (green light)
18-24 = 🟡 (some light)
<17 = 🔴 (can’t shoot 3s)

[Butler Basketball @ButlerMBB]

Ready to write the next chapter 🗣️

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

“Banners hang in gyms and rings collect dust. But who you become and who you impact you get to keep forever,” Cori Close

Your character defines winning.

[ACC Network @accnetwork]

This moment between Hannah Hidalgo and Coach Ivey 🥹 @ndwbb

[Players Era @Players_Era]

“I don't have to be their life, but they are my life." - Kelvin Sampson

One of the best to ever do it

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

“Society has gotten soft in a lot of ways... The real world is tough and cruel... I'm preparing my players for life." - Danny Hurley

(Via @RealDanZak 🎥)

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Kobe Bryant: "Failure doesn't exist, it's a figment of your imagination"

An interviewer asks: "Are you someone who loves to win or hates to lose?"

Kobe responds:

"I'm neither. I play to figure things out. I play to learn something. Because if you play with a fear of failure or you play with the will to win that supersedes fear, I think it's a weakness either way. If you play with fear of failing, you'll capitulate to that fear. If you play with the sense of 'I want to win, I want to win,' then you have the fear of what happens if you don't. But if you find common ground in the center, you're unfazed by either. That enables you to stay in the moment and not feel anything other than what's in front of you."

The interviewer asks: "How did you become someone who doesn't seem afraid of failing?"

Kobe responds:

"What does failure mean? It doesn't exist. It's a figment of your imagination."

He explains with an analogy:

"Let's use happy endings. Everybody wants a happy ending, right? Snow White finds her prince and lives happily ever after. Well, I call BS on that because two months later, they had an argument and he's sleeping on the couch. The point is: the story continues. So if you fail on Monday, the only way it's a failure is if you decide to not progress from that. If I fail today, I'm going to learn something from that failure and try again on Tuesday. That's why failure doesn't exist."

The interviewer asks: "If you finished your career without a championship, would you have looked at that as a failure?"

Kobe:

"No. I would look at it as being extremely disappointed, because I had a dream and goals I wanted to accomplish. If I didn't accomplish those goals, I'd have to ask myself why. Poor leadership? Failure to communicate with my teammates? Lack of preparation? Those would be reasons why I didn't win. So I'd have to analyze that. And as I evolved post-basketball into business, those same weaknesses would reveal themselves there too. If I don't learn from that, I'm going to struggle again."

He concludes:

"I can take those situations and learn from them and have them make me a better person later in life. But if I don't take that stuff and apply it someplace else, that's failing. The worst possible thing you can ever do is to stop. It's to not learn."

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

“The strength of our program is we play for each other &amp; our program is more important than any individual &amp; that includes me” - Kelvin Sampson

(Via @MGSportsTalk 🎥)

[ESPN @espn]

UVA IS THE FIRST WOMEN'S FIRST FOUR TEAM TO EVER MAKE THE SWEET 16 👏

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

"If there wasn't a fight, it wasn't fun. ... That's the beauty of competition ... you leave it there."

—Iowa head coach Ben McCollum on his exchange with Florida coach Todd Golden during the upset win

(via @PatMcAfeeShow)

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

“Failure is just fertilizer to help us grow as a team.” - Rick Pitino

(Via @thewinningdiff1 🎥)

[Thomas Dunn @Thomasdunn24]

Jai Lucas on what makes Miami a place that can host a great basketball program

"Once I got to meet the people, it was a no brainer. It's the people that make places. We had great people in building this year that made my job easy. I was blessed to have the right people, great support from administration and the fans. They really built a great foundation and its my job to keep it rolling where this time next year we're talking about going to a Sweet 16."

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔇𝔢𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔦𝔱 𝔗𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 📰 @the_det_times]

The legendary Tom Izzo drops a legendary quote, via @E_Matasovsky57:

"At my place, we play for the players that played before us, and we play for the players with us. And we sure play for the name on the front of the jersey."

😤

[Conor Maisch @cwmaisch]

Basketball Scriptures!

Play to your strengths.
Play off 2 Feet.
Limit Turnovers.
Make free throws &amp; layups.
Be able to catch &amp; shoot.

You check these boxes you’ll find PT!

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

This video is great

The rise of Houston Basketball in Kelvin Sampson’s tenure has been amazing

From begging people to come to games to blowing teams out in the Tournament

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

Tom Izzo on the state of coaching in CBB:

"I respect the guys that have left. I understand why some of them did. But my boss told me a long time ago, your job is to be a steward of the game. I don't think right now enough coaches are standing up to be stewards of the game"

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

The best coaches will still be the ones that hold their players accountable. A standard needs to be set for your program

“I'm going to push our team to be the best we can be. I'm going to love them. Once in a while they're not going to like things that you do.” - Sean Miller