🏀 An exclusive look into where Steph Curry went to college
Welcome to the 572 new readers of The Basketball Academy.
This is the day you become a better player or coach.
Today’s Basketball Academy takes 2 minutes and 36 seconds to read.
SPECIAL GUESTS
Coaches Jasmine Jenkins & Laura Berry from Davidson College Women’s Basketball
Here’s what we’re serving up:
🏀 #1 - Best thing we learned 📚
🏀 #2 - Davidson’s best Actions 🎥
🏀 #3 - Davidson’s Culture 💭
LET’S DIVE IN ⬇️
The Power of Journaling & Cohorts 📚
Having weekly check-ins with your players is a must. Daily deposits!
Pre & Post flow. Have players actively journal their thoughts to be more present and reflect.
Have people in your cohort who you don’t necessarily work with all the time. To have a better understanding of each individual’s background and how to get the most out of them.
Jerry Seinfeld was asked how his daily work routine has evolved over the years:
“It’s the exact same,” he said. “I do the exact same now as I did when I was 21 in 1975.”
While Jerry sits down with his journal, he states,
“My writing technique is just: You can’t do anything else. You don’t have to write, but you can’t do anything else.”
That’s your day? the interviewer asks. That’s what you’ve done every day for thirty-eight years? That, to me, sounds torturous.
“It is,” Seinfeld admits. “But you know what? Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you’re comfortable with…Find the torture you’re comfortable with, and you’ll do well.”
Takeaways:
Significantly improved idea retention
Better focus on identifying the important
Lower stress/anxiety about "missing" things
To most, what Jerry Seinfeld does every day sounds like torture. But Seinfeld loves what he does. "I love my big, yellow legal pad," he said. "Once I get that pad open, I can’t stop…the next thing I know, the day is gone.”
There is no secret. There is only the doing of the mundane, boring, torturous work, day after day.
Find the mundane, boring, torturous work you like, as Seinfeld said, "and you’ll do well."
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"Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you’re comfortable with." — Jerry Seinfeld
Must Add Action 🎥
🔥 Davidson executes extremely well out of 5-Out 🔥
Here are some actions to add to your team! ⬇️👇
Tight Curl
Backdoor
Elbow Splits
Tight Curl, Pop
Elbow Splits, Pop
Flare
Attack
Person > Player 💭
✅ The care of the well-being of the holistic human
✅ Academic & staff support
✅ Have fun!
💥 BONUS - SHOOTING DRILL 💥
3on0 Shooting - A great way to get a ton of game reps out of your actions
1. Empty P&R- Second side kick- Ghost Swing- Pin Down
2. Side P&R throwback to Shake- 1/2 second attack- Baseline Drift 1more
If you’d like to hear the whole pod, listen or watch here ⬇️👇
Our favorite quotes from the pod:
“Your level of passing is related to your level of understanding”
“You praise what you want repeated”