An INVESTED coach’s job isn’t M-F. It isn’t an 8-hour shift. It isn’t from October-March. It NEVER ends. Be sure to love on the coaches that are invested. They matter! 🏀❤️
Do you lie to yourself?
“When you experience failure you have two options. You can either tell yourself the truth or you can lie to yourself.”
Be a truth teller. Failure is growth.
Kara Lawson 🥇
Mitch Johnson shares the biggest lesson he learned from Gregg Popovich.
"How important people and relationships are."
"He understands people and relationships and the significance of every moment and every touch point with every person."
The best leaders and coaches invest in people.
Then he explained what investing in people really looks like:
"That can be having to yell and hold someone accountable. And that can be to put your arm around someone's shoulder and love 'em."
The best leaders combine high standards with high support.
"He did it better than anybody, I think, that's ever walked the sidelines."
"I will attempt to do it my way in whatever that looks like moving forward."
Great leadership isn't one style. It's knowing your people well enough to give them what they need.
Invest in the relationships. Care about people, hold them to their potential, and lead in your style.
(🎥 KENS5 - San Antonio)
Coaching is a thankless job, with little appreciation given. Long hours, constant criticism, you win it is all the kids, you lose it is all your fault. Thank you to the coaches out there rocking it. We do not hear that enough. Bless you all.
Courtney Williams on hard it was to learn to play point guard after being a 2 guard her whole like
“Overly hard(laughing) like you damn near got to take the back seat to yourself. Like I would have let that thing fly all the time, imma just be honest because at the 1 spot you have the ball in your hand so much, like I come down and I’m like I could shoot this ball every time if I wanted to, but I can’t… like at the 1 spot you need to play make and facilitate and then it’s about your shot, at the 2 and the 3 it’s like go score. So yeah, it was hard(smiles)”
Hall of Fame Coach Dawn Staley on the business of winning, loving someone enough to let them fail, and living everyday with zero margin:
💎 You don’t have to be for everybody to be right for your people. Leadership isn’t a popularity contest, it’s a courage practice! When you’re crystal clear on who you are and what you stand for, you can lead with conviction. And that becomes a magnet for people who want to be part of something real.
🏺 Tell the truth, even when it costs you comfort. We're in the business of winning. And winning built on half-truths is fragile; it cracks under pressure. Real leaders choose honesty over image, because trust, not talent—is what holds a team together when things get hard.
❤️ Care enough to step back. Loving someone isn’t rescuing always them from failure, it’s standing close enough to support, but far enough to let them struggle, adapt, and discover their own strength. Growth doesn’t come from protection; it comes from earned resilience.
📆 Respect the weight of every day. There is no neutral, only progress or erosion. When you give away a day because you're not all the way there mentally, someone else is investing it, and preparing to take what you’re not protecting.
Own your identity without apology! The moment you start shrinking to be digestible, you lose the very edge that makes you effective. You're not in the politics business, you're in the people business. The right people don’t need you to be everything, they need you to be authentically you, CONSISTENTLY and without COMPROMISE.
FYI‼️‼️ High school seniors stepping into collegiate athletics this coming fall, this summer is where the shift happens!
Rewire your mindset: everything is earned, not given.
In high school, you may have been the starter, the go-to, the one who never left the field or court. At the next level, everyone was that. The gap closes fast.
Don’t walk into your first practice expecting anything to be handed to you, it won’t be.
Coaches don’t owe you anything!
Your past doesn’t guarantee your future. What matters now is how you show up: your work ethic, your attitude, your consistency, and your willingness to be coached. Prepare yourself to compete every single day. Prepare yourself to earn your spot. Prepare yourself to be uncomfortable.
The transition isn’t easy, but the ones who embrace it early are the ones who separate.
A high school basketball team doesn't have to be full of future D1 players to dominate. It just needs:
- Seven kids willing to defend like their lives depend on it.
- A leader who makes EVERYONE around them better.
- A coach who knows success is about culture, not schemes.
BREAKING: Texas transfer Jordan Lee has committed to South Carolina, sources told @On3.
The 6-0 sophomore averaged 13.2 ppg, 2.5 apg and 1.5 spg this season.
TRACKER: https://t.co/wYv1Ze6704
‼️ RECRUITS ‼️
As you head into the AAU season’s first live period this weekend, here are THREE THINGS I’m paying CLOSE ATTENTION TO:
1. Body language on AND off the court. Are you hanging your head after every missed shot or turnover? Are you encouraging your teammates when you’re on the bench? Are you locked in during team huddles?
2. How you react/respond to adversity.
When your team is down, do you step up & embrace leadership or do you fade into the background? Can you produce against the biggest and baddest opponents just as you can against the lower tier? Do you fold under pressure?
3. Your warm-up.
How seriously do you take warm-up ahead of your game? Are you fooling around & putting in “light work” or is your game face already on? The mindset should always be “practice the way you play”
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