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The Wisdom of the “Three P’s”…

As we all begin a new academic year I wanted to share with you some “wisdom” I have gathered along the way.  Many sources, many people.

These thoughts can apply to any walk of life, any career, any program or organization.

Hope it is helpful as the journey begins for 2010 – 11.

Planning… Preparedness… Preparation…

• The time has come to RETHINK… RE-IMAGE… and RECALIBRATE what is possible, what is desirable, what is sustainable.  It’s time to RE-WRITE the rules.

• Someone outside your organization today knows how to answer your specific question, solve your specific problem or take advantage of your current opportunity better than you do.  You NEED to find them and find a way to work collaboratively and productively with them.

• Does EVERYONE who works with you understand were the organization is trying to go, what it is trying to accomplish and then determine what information, knowledge and insight are required?

• Failure to pay attention to paying attention is one of the top ten career killers.

• Are you curious?  We live in a world where just about everything is “KNOWABLE” for us to know, however, we must hunger to understand.

• REALITY! …  We are competing with EVERYONE, from EVERYWHERE, for EVERYTHING (Everyone has become a potential competitor or a potential ally.)

• The only way to win in the global marketplace is to “KNOW.” One of the highest values associated with business analytics is the ability to know your customers (recruits, players) – know what they want, when they want it, at what price and via what delivery process.

• The customer is boss… you can’t innovate without having a customer in mind.

• BAD TIMES are the best times to prepare for the GOOD TIMES.

• Competitiveness favors those who spot NEW FRIENDS and act on them expeditiously.

A printable copy is here.

San Antonio Spurs defensive principles

I discovered a new BLOG through the Fast Model, FastDraw family of coaches… 48 Minutes of Hell.  Pretty good stuff, very detailed and really good use of FastDraw diagramming tool.

Real good entry on San Antonio Spurs defensive principles.

Bruce Bowen

Chances are, if you’re a regular reader of this blog you have a pretty good idea of what the San Antonio Spurs like to do, and avoid, on the defensive end of the floor.

But from time-to-time, I find it helpful to review things to keep them fresh in my head. And seeing as it’s mid-August and the NBA is on vacation, I thought we’d take a look at a couple of the bedrock principles of the Spurs’ defense.

Force guards away from the middle of the floor
It’s easy to boil it down to this: when the ball-handler gets to the middle and into the lane, bad things happen. This is because the offensive player has options. And the basic premises of defense are to limit the number of ways the offense can score and make it as hard as possible for them to do that.

When opposing guards get into the lane, they cause damage. They get good looks at the basket, find open teammates and draw fouls. A ball-handler in the middle of the lane usually has a better look at the basket than when forced towards the sideline or baseline. Additionally, he probably got past the defender guarding him en route to the lane. This means other defenders will have to rotate over to help on the ball-handler, leaving other offensive players open if the ball-handler can find them with a good pass.

In the play diagrammed below, Steve Nash got to the lane against the Spurs defense late in Game 2 of the teams’ Western Conference Semifinal series. The Suns had a eight point lead with about a minute left in the game. It’s a pretty significant advantage that late in the game, but not insurmountable. On the play, Nash used a pick at the top of the 3-point arc from Amar’e Stoudemire to get by George Hill and into the lane.

Continue Reading…

Theodore Roosevelt

Shared with us by Ross Comerford of Fast Model Technologies…

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

Coaching U LIVE 2010

From everyone I have spoken to this event was one of the best coaching resource tools they have ever been to.  People continue to rave about the University of Florida Coaches Clinic that Coach Donovan and his staff put on every year (sadly, I have not attended either – that will change next year).  These two coaching resources must be “Top 5″ for coaching growth and development.

If you attended either of these events (or others) and can provide information and feedback, it would be greatly appreciated.

Post a comment and I’ll share it with everyone.

COACHING U LIVE 2010

Above is a link to 70+ pages of notes provided to a friend of mine by:

Adam Cohen - University of Southern California

I don’t personally know either of these guys, but they did a tremendous job detailing the information provided by Coaching U LIVE. On first impressions, these are two young, detail oriented guys who “get it.”

Thanks for sharing with all of us.

Notice the diagrams provided by FastDraw.

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