Bobby Cox sent Leo Mazzone to the mound so he could tell Greg Maddux to walk Luis Gonzalez. Mad Dog refused to do it, and told Leo give him two pitches and he'll make Luis pop up to 3rd base. Two pitches later, a pop up to Chipper Jones at 3rd base 🤯
22 years ago today, Joe Mauer made his MLB debut!
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"This place was packed with all Nebraska fans. ... I've never seen anything like this. It had to be 17,000 Nebraska fans here."
@realchriswebber joined the @richeisenshow to talk about the NCAA tournament and was shocked to see all the Nebraska fans 😅
Let's start our look at 1970 basketball with some team pics. Here's the Clarkson Red Devils, the Oakland-Craig Knights (in their first year), and the state runner-up Laurel Bears and all-stater Steve Erwin.
Billy Donovan shares a lesson that changed how his players thought about winning.
At Florida, he had a manager track how long the ball was in each player's hands during a game.
He asked one of his starters: "How many minutes do you think you had the ball in your hands for the game?"
The player said 15 minutes when he had played 30.
The real numbers?
"A backcourt player, for the most part, is probably 92% of the game gonna be played without the ball in their hands. A frontcourt player - 95% of their minutes is gonna be played without the ball in their hands."
Think about that. You're playing without the ball almost the entire game.
"It's amazing to me how many players focus on points, points, points. That's what goes on ESPN. That's what gets the highlights."
"But if you're gonna strictly talk about winning and you're really driven and motivated by winning and competing and being a good teammate, you have to look at the fact is -- what am I doing with my 92, 93, 94, 95%?"
"Am I screening? Am I running the floor? Am I on the floor for loose basketballs? Am I rebounding? Am I taking a charge?"
"There's so many ways to impact the game with the amount of time you're on the floor when the ball's not in your hands."
This is what separates good players from winning players.
You control how you show up.
You control your attitude.
You control your effort.
Great teammates master what they do when no one's watching - and when the ball isn't in their hands.
Winning isn't about the glamour. It's about the 95%.
(🎥@Coaching_U )
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Perhaps the most amazing stat of last night. Jasen Green made a layup to tie the game at 2-2 with 17:48 remaining in the first. Creighton's starters did not make a 2 point field goal the rest of the game. In fact all Bluejays not named Austin Swartz made *two* additional 2 pt FGs
“I feel like we’re never nervous when we’re out there and we’re always playing as a team.”
Rena Rasmussen had 15 kills and 13 digs in LCC’s sweep over Oakland-Craig in the Class C2 semifinals.
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