🏀 Memento Mori 💀
“Every man has two lives and the 2nd one starts when he realizes he has just one.”
Welcome to The Basketball Academy. 🏛️
We create Confidence.
We create Clarity.
We instill Capabilities in coaches & players.
Here’s what we’re serving up:
🏀 #1 - Favorite thing we heard 🎧
🏀 #2 - Must Add Action’s 🎥
🏀 #3 - Intensive training 🧠
LET’S DIVE IN ⬇️
“Think on death” 🎧
Stoic philosophy which means
“To think on death often.”
"Memento Mori" is a Latin phrase that means "Remember you will die." It reminds us that life is short and we should make the most of it.
Expectations are a killer
Focus more on Development rather than Expectations
Your score doesn’t mean anything until the life is over
Must Add Action’s 🎥
“Dribble”
Another Danilovic Cut! 🇬🇷
Greece uses it to combat Canada’s aggressive Defense.
Deep Practice 🧠
Brazil is known for creating great soccer players and has done so for years. How??
The surprising answer is that since the 1950s Brazilian players have trained in a particular way, that improves ball-handling skill faster than anywhere else in the world.
They have found a way to increase their learning velocity—
We call this kind of training deep practice, and as we’ll see, it applies to more than soccer ⬇️👇
Your IQ did not increase while you looked at column B. But when you encountered the words with blank spaces, something both imperceptible and profound happened.
You stopped. You stumbled ever so briefly, then figured it out. You experienced a microsecond of struggle, which made all the difference. You didn’t practice harder when you looked at column B. You practiced deeper.
How can we do this at practice?
• Create game actions where players struggle to find the solutions.
• Play SSG’s where a piece of the puzzle is missing.
“Skill is the relationship between the performer & their environment.”
“We think of effortless performance as desirable, but it’s really a terrible way to learn.”
BONUS 🚨 Shooting Drill
Kelsey Plum
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