Chri$

Progress isn’t linear…..📉📈

[Rafael Barlowe @Barlowe500]

Sunday Rundown: NBA Injury Concerns, Cason Wallace's $139M Deal, Tyran Stokes Shines and more... https://t.co/wqL85f9jcz

[Chri$ @_ShootersShoot_]

😂😂😂

[ELLANOESTUU❤️‍🩹 @ELLANOESTUU]

WE BACKKK 🔥🔥🔥

[Chri$ @_ShootersShoot_]

@sakatierney45 Please list the 9 things

[Chri$ @_ShootersShoot_]

😂😂😂

[jb @lockedupjb]

Tatum on IG 😭😭

[Chri$ @_ShootersShoot_]

Watching this reminds me of why Nash was my favorite player growing up

[Pitless @pitlessball]

Steve Nash 2005 WCSF Tape:

30.3 PPG, 12.0 APG, 6.5 RPG, 63.9% TS (+12.5 rTS%)

[Matt ☘️ @karskiMD]

Hugo was the one stuck standing in the corner last year, he knew he could leave his guy. That ball was not getting moved

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

Joe Mazzulla has been practicing what he preaches at the Boston Celtics…

He’s been handing over coaching responsibilities. Giving his assistants opportunities to lead. Giving veteran guard Mike Conley responsibility for managing substitutions. Allowing people to experience decisions, uncertainty and responsibility from a different perspective.

I love this.

Because coaches often talk about wanting more leadership from their players.

Ownership.
Accountability.
Independence.

But here’s my question…

What opportunities are you actually giving your players to develop these qualities?

Leadership doesn’t magically appear because a coach demands it. Leadership needs to be developed. Through experiences. Through conversations. Through decision-making. Through responsibility. And, importantly, through mistakes.

Think about it…

When a coach makes every decision, provides every answer, and solves every problem, what are the players learning?

Perhaps they’re learning to become dependent. Perhaps they’re learning to wait for instructions. Perhaps they’re learning that leadership belongs to somebody else.

Now contrast that with a coach who deliberately creates opportunities for players to think, communicate, collaborate, and make decisions. A coach who asks questions rather than immediately providing answers. A coach who gives players responsibility and then helps them reflect. That’s a coach developing independent competitors.

And independence matters enormously in sport. Because when the whistle blows, players must perceive, decide and act. They must respond to changing circumstances. They must communicate and coordinate. They must take control and take charge.

So here’s a challenge for coaches…

Don’t simply demand leadership. Design opportunities for leadership. Evrty day of every week, and in every training session.

Because the best leaders don’t just lead…the best leaders create more leaders.

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There’s a great source here on the work of Coach Mazzulla: https://t.co/1pehWXFVi2

[Chri$ @_ShootersShoot_]

@NotoriousGrey27 https://t.co/oOTerUzLPR

Respond to this video please

[Jersey Shore Knicks Guy @njshoreknicks]

The Sixers have a great starting five on paper.

This video is exactly why that doesn’t guarantee anything.

Watch Tatum stand in the corner because he knows the ball isn’t coming. Watch Brown drive into traffic while everybody else waits. Boston had enough talent to survive that tension. Most stacked teams don’t.

There is only one basketball. When you build a lineup full of guys who want touches, shots, and stats, regular-season wins can keep everybody quiet for a while.

Then a hard seven-game series arrives. The first option gets taken away. Shots stop falling. Somebody feels frozen out. The body language changes, and little frustrations become cracks.

We’ve watched this story play out too many times.

Philly may look great on paper in September. Talent is not hierarchy. When the fourth quarter gets ugly, the Knicks already know whose game it is. Jalen Brunson time. Everybody else buys in.

[Chri$ @_ShootersShoot_]

Celtics in a zone to start off the game

[Jack Simone @JackSimoneNBA]

The Celtics are about to unleash two monsters on the NBA: Mitchell Robinson and Neemias Queta

[Chri$ @_ShootersShoot_]

@SkyySportsTalk You don’t know shit bout the Celtics lol please stop speaking on them

[Chri$ @_ShootersShoot_]

@1btae21 Yes he is lying

[Mat Issa @matissa15]

Hate to be that guy, but three things to keep when projecting your team:

1) It is really, really rare for a non-shooter/below-average shooter to become someone defenses care about, especially in a single offseason

2) the cheap flyer your team is taking probably won't lead to a true rotation-level player

3) Most rookies are not going to be winning players in Year One

[Chri$ @_ShootersShoot_]

@UofBasketball Anyone who watched him in college isn’t surprised by any of these plays

[Chri$ @_ShootersShoot_]

@FCHWPO could we get a breakdown of these plays on your twitch stream?

[Kalshi Hoops @KalshiHoops]

Jaylen Brown on winning Finals MVP:

"I think one of my highest moments in just winning a championship. I didn't play to win no award, when they gave me the MVP, they gave me 2 MVPs by the way, just for those, you know what I mean. But when I won, I was never expecting that. I didn't care nothing about that... It mattered way more to some people than it ever mattered to me. So when I won, you could see in my face that I was shocked. Cause it didn't change no reaction if anybody else would have won. But that don't always be the case when the shoe was on the other foot."

(H/T @xtra0szn)

[Rafael Barlowe @Barlowe500]

Rookie Report Vol. 5: Darryn Peterson's Process, Mikel Brown's Debut & Meleek Thomas Gets Buckets https://t.co/753GMt3aAI

[Chri$ @_ShootersShoot_]

Hol on, buddy might got something right here 🔥

[Darren Waller @Rackkwall83]

Some bye week pen exercise..

Back to work 🫡

[Chri$ @_ShootersShoot_]

@Rackkwall83

[Chri$ @_ShootersShoot_]

@TheHoopHerald You can make the finals and not be a one a guy?

[Rafael Barlowe @Barlowe500]

This is where’s it’s tricky IMO. I think you need to leave when you’re hot especially as a projected lottery pick. Historically, lottery picks got longer leashes to fail and the money is guaranteed.

But now, with NIL paying big money and teams losing patience faster, lottery picks aren’t guaranteed developmental opportunities.