The lack of fundamental development in youth basketball is alarming. Over the last few months, I’ve watched more bad basketball than I ever care to watch. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t care that players are either good or bad. That is irrelevant. What bothers me is the lack of Read more…
Are you ever really ready? Before you have a child, did you know what it was going to be like to be a parent? Before you got married, did you know what it was going to be like to be married? Before you were the boss, did you know what Read more…
We think it’s critical to chase excellence, not perfection. I think perfectionism is something we as a society don’t understand very well. To me, perfectionism is a true double-edged sword. It gives high achievers the obsessive drive to work insanely hard & be hyper-focused on becoming the best. But, it Read more…
Can someone help me understand? For most of my life, I have been pretty much secluded from the mainstream. Growing up in a secluded rural town before the internet, I didn’t really know much about the world. Then for the next half of my life being in environments that very Read more…
“You have to choose to be alone
If you’re going to change the world.”
If you want to choose greatness, you must choose to be lonely.
Why don’t we let them fail? Why do we pretend that our kids aren’t human? Why do we try to protect them from the struggle? The truth is we all fail, we all struggle, and we are all human. Pretending like we are anything else makes the fall even harder Read more…
When I go to Google and I search Basketball Near Me, I shake my head. When I think about all of the wasted time and money spent with these “organizations”, it makes me question whether what we’re doing is beneficial. When I think about what we do and how we Read more…
What is important to you? Whether I was recruiting athletes, coaching them, or now training them, this is the one question that so often goes unanswered. It’s so scary for me when this happens. Let’s be clear. While basketball seems to be at the center of everything for us, it Read more…
How often do you look in the mirror? When you do, what do you see? Do you see the real you? Do you put yourself down? Or do you think too much of yourself? The great thing about the mirror is that it shows who we are right now or Read more…
When the scoreboard says 91-9 or something similar, I feel sorry for the winners, not the losers.