As adults, we need to stop 'stealing the struggle' from our kids.
When we 'steal the struggle', we steal their opportunity for growth & learning.
We need to prepare them for the path (teach resilience, reflection, and self-respect), but we can't prepare the path for them.
Basketball parents, take this from the sport of track. It takes a ton of work for incremental improvements.
Don’t expect one hard workout to change the world. Work hard and consistently and you will see small changes. That will eventually lead up to something big.
When your teammates succeed, you succeed.
When your teammates fail, you fail.
When you’re on a team, you need to care about your teammates just as much as yourself.
A great high school coach doesn't just teach basketball; they teach belief.
- Belief in preparation.
- Belief in each other.
- Belief that hard work wins, even when talent alone won't.
When players truly believe, they play, and live, differently.
Most teams lose games trying to be flashy, not because the game is hard.
Basketball rewards those who stay humble and do the little things right:
Play hard, every play.
Move the ball, trust your teammates.
Talk on defense, don't go silent.
Dive for loose balls, set great screens, help the helper.
The best teams I've coached?
They didn't chase highlights.
They owned the basics and made them unbeatable.
Want to win more?
Go master the simple things.
“We worry about today and if we get better today, we know what the results are going to be. Then we’ll worry about tomorrow. That’s our focus. Every single day we’re trying to win,” J.B. Bickerstaff
Discipline is immeasurable, powerful and the key to consistent success.
“The game rewards the guys who show up and have a great attitude when it’s not about them.”
- Dusty May
Everybody’s role is important.
(via: @umichbball)
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" 'Everything is impossible until you make it happen'
Greatness is hard.
Every day, every moment, every rep - unseen and unseen.
To be great at anything is going to take work.
It's going to take unbelievable commitment."
"Building confidence...requires you to fail.
There's going to be a good balance of failure and success and that's how you build toughness - the resilience of getting through something hard."
Your performance is shaped by three things you can always access:
Keeping it simple.
Trusting your preparation.
Staying focused on what you can control.
When those are clear, execution improves. When execution improves, outcomes take care of themselves.
Takeaway:
Complexity is the enemy of execution.