🏀 The pure magic of being present
Welcome to the 112 new readers of The Basketball Academy.
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The Basketball Academy is brought to you by Changing The Game
Changing The Game is the first-ever completely women-led coach development conference.
They've brought together some of the greatest minds in leadership, biomechanics, practice design, culture creation, skill adaptation, player development, motor behavior, applied performance, sport psychology... and more.
The vision is to multiply the value coaches currently bring to their teams, their families, and their colleagues.
The mission is to flip a culture.
Join them for two days of powerful speeches, on-court demonstrations, engaging panels, and networking opportunities for those on the front line of the change.
WHEN
Apr 04, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT – Apr 05, 2024, 4:30 PM EDT
WHERE
North Ridgeville,
7717 Victory Ln, North Ridgeville, OH 44039, USA
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Here’s what we’re serving up:
🏀 #1 - Best thing we heard 🗣️
🏀 #2 - Favorite Action 🎥
🏀 #3 - Culture Philosophy 💭
LET’S DIVE IN ⬇️
🗣️ Perspective
The Mexican fisherman story is a simple but powerful tale that imparts several important life lessons:
Takeaways
Simplicity Matters: The fisherman's simple life emphasizes the importance of focusing on essential needs and prompts reflection on life's priorities.
Quality Over Quantity: Instead of pursuing excessive wealth, the story advocates for prioritizing quality experiences, relationships, and personal well-being.
Balance Work and Life: As human beings we all have two lives, and the 2nd one starts when we realize we only have one. Balance is 🔑.
Challenge the Norms: The story questions societal expectations, urging reflection.
Find Joy: Contentment and fulfillment are found in simplicity, challenging the notion that material possessions and wealth are the sole sources of happiness.
Overall, the Mexican fisherman story serves as a reminder to reevaluate priorities, question societal expectations, and appreciate the simplicity and richness of a life well-lived.
Must Add Action 🎥
Miami Delay
Decision-making is hard, quick decision-making is the separator.
Building Consistent Culture 💭
Brad Stevens (GM: Boston Celtics) breaks down his philosophy and how it’s evolved from college to pro.
🔑 If you focus too much of your time & attention on the results, you’re in trouble.
🔑 Focus on the process & growth that helps you to get there.
🔑 That’s where you get your emotional consistency
🔑 Regardless of what happens tomorrow, we’ll be better prepared for it because of our daily habits
🔑 I don’t care about the results, as long as we don’t have any regrets
At Butler, this was his philosophy:
Now with the Celtics:
💥 BONUS 💥
“Self-belief is overrated, I prefer to use evidence.”
As Bulls coach Billy Donovan puts it: there is surface-level confidence and deep confidence, deep confidence is unshakable during the storm.
Sports psychologist Michael Gervais says the great ones “earn the right to speak truthfully to themselves.” That’s the deep confidence, that comes from doing difficult things.
Create a stack of undeniable proof of how good you are, and outwork your self-doubt.
Stoic Brad Stevens
While at Butler coach Stevens tells a story of when they started 9-0 in a season, and beat some good teams including Ohio State.
But in an early conference game against a good Wright St team, they lost and put up 42 points.
In Brad’s words, “it was solely my fault.”
“We played on edge, I was complaining to officials, I was on edge for every possession.” It was important to start league play off well.
He said after that game “I’m not costing us a game ever again. Even if I’m feeling the butterflies I am going to be as prepared as humanly possible.”
A couple of years later take a look at Coach Stevens. 👇👇👇
If we as coaches can take “a brief beat” between stimulus & response our mistake response would be much better.
Things don’t anger us, our response to things anger us.
Until next time!
Best games to tune in this weekend: 📺
Thursday 12/7
2:00 pm PT - Bucks vs Pacers on ESPN
6:00 pm PT - Pelicans vs Lakers on TNT
Saturday 12/9
10:30 am PT Alabama vs Purdue on FOX
5:30 pm PT - NBA In-Season Tournament Championship on ABC
Sunday 12/10
9:00 am PT - UCLA vs Florida State WBB on ESPN2
11:30 am PT - Utah vs South Carolina WBB on ESPN