🏀 Team First: The Art of Being a Great Teammate 🦃
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Here’s what we’re serving up this week:
🏀 Being A Great Teammate 💭
Below the Pay line
🏀 Dealing With Failure 😣
🏀 Must Add Action 🎥
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Your ultimate legacy will be what kind of teammate you were 💭
Brad Stevens said, "This game is about how you act as a teammate."
"This game is about what you do from the standpoint of supporting one another, embracing roles, accepting roles."
Being a great teammate means being a person of character.
It's not always easy having WE > Me.
🚨 Coaches, ask your players this question, and players, reflect on it for yourself:
Do your teammates truly enjoy playing alongside you?
Thank The Passer 🫵
Thanking the passer in basketball is about much more than simple etiquette; it’s a vital practice that fosters trust, teamwork, and positive culture.
How Did It All Start?
In the 60s and 70s a conversation between Dean Smith and John Wooden triggered a basketball tradition of generosity and unselfishness. The goal was to initiate an overt gesture to build a team culture of acknowledgment and togetherness. In the end, Coach Smith asked players on his North Carolina men’s basketball teams to recognize the unselfish act of a teammate passing them the ball.