🏀 Clever ways to Win The Day
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🏀 #1 - Best thing we read 📚
🏀 #2 - Favorite Action 🎥
🏀 #3 - Study The Game 💭
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Winning The Locker Room 📚
‘Pete Carroll is just in a land of his own’: The one-of-a-kind team meetings of Seahawks’ coach
Malcolm Smith (linebacker): His team meetings are honestly what I think sets him apart from other coaches.
Tate: We would open up the cooler and this fake snake would pop out. We’d all jump and some of us would scream. He had a camera in there. Of course, the next day in the team meeting, he selected all the good ones and premiered it to the entire team.
Malcolmson: Pete told our video crew: “Hey, if anyone trips (at practice) during a drill or a route, if they fall down, you’ve got to edit it and slice it with sniper footage.”
Kearse: Everybody would be talking, and then the lights would just go down low.
Malcolmson: It would cut to dramatic music and a sniper scene in a movie.
K.J. Wright (linebacker): Like “American Sniper” or something. It would be like: “I have an eye on him. I’m locked on the target.”
Malcolmson: It’s like a minute-long buildup, and everyone is like: “Oh no, who’s gonna get got?”
Wright: And then the sniper would shoot, the guy would fall at practice and blood would splash out. It was the funniest sh– ever.
Watch the Seahawks compete for the basketball shot title 👀 🏀
Take a look 👆
Malcolmson: For the New York Super Bowl, that was the first year our free-throw shooting contest really took off. We started to do it during almost every team meeting, and there was an in-season tournament. It really became part of the culture.
Must Add Action 🎥
Saint Mary’s Offense ⛹️
The “throw & go” can be used to punish the denying guard.
Game Memory (Recall) 💭
Here’s a famous clip from a press conference during the ECF. LeBron from memory recalls multiple plays in a row perfectly 🧠
💥 BONUS - The Power of the Prank 💥
Great way to keep spirits up during a long season 🔑
One of Pete Carroll’s all time best pranks, watch how it unifies the room.