Does Playing Professional Sports Help People?
You have all probably seen the commercial below. Take a half minute to give it a look. I think it’s a funny one. I laugh every time I see it. But I do more than laugh, because I think this simple...
View ArticleMark Richt and Gospel Freedom
Here’s a good article from Dan Wetzel at Yahoo! Sports on Georgia Head Football Coach, Mark Richt. Wetzel focuses on the way in which Richt’s Christian faith impacts his decision as a Head Coach at a...
View Article‘Making Good Tables’
In his book, Every Good Endeavor, Tim Keller quotes Dorothy Sayers: The church’s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him to not be drunk and disorderly in his leisure...
View ArticleBack to Passing on the Game
Yesterday I had a chance to think through some definitive goals for 2013. One thing that was very obvious is that I would like to write much more. That obviously means blogging a more consistently. So...
View Article8 – Make sure they have good coaching.
As a professional basketball player, I speak from experience when I say that who coaches you and what they think about you can oftentimes be the difference between having a career or not having a...
View ArticlePrinciple #2: Emphasize Rhythm
See the full outline for this series here. I read an article recently by Kirk Goldsberry over at Grantland.com, entitled “The Kobe Assist.” In it, Goldsberry makes a strong case that from a scoring...
View ArticlePrinciple #2 – Part 1 – An Inescapable Reality
See the full outline for this series here. 1) It’s an inescapable reality and thus, something that should be foundational to your offensive philosophy. My parents never, ever forced us to play sports....
View ArticlePrinciple #2 – Part 2 – A Rhythm Unique to Every Team
See the full outline for this series here. 2) It’s unique to every team. This is probably the most obvious of points, but it is essential to state. I won’t say everything here, because in many...
View ArticlePrinciple #2 – Part 3 –‘Doing Rhythm’
See the full outline for this series here. 3) It’s something we need to practice. I believe this last point is obvious if you agree with my first two. For if rhythm, tempo and feel are as important to...
View ArticlePointing to the Importance of Rhythm
Check out this fantastic article from Michael Weinreb over at Grantland.com, entitled Hurry Up and Wait. Weinreb is a Penn State grad, so I am not surprised to read such great insights from him, but...
View ArticleNew Principle #1 – Empowering your team with an offensive identity.
One of the primary reasons I am writing this series of posts is because I have found that I don’t really know what I think I know or what I truly believe until I force myself to put it into writing....
View ArticleNew Principle #1, Part 1 – Identity Consistent with our Strengths
First, Your vision for our identity must be consistent with our strengths and desires. The need to stay consistent with our strengths and desires is a point that I will return to time and time again,...
View ArticleNew Principle #1, Part 2 – The Same all the Time
Second, Your vision for our identity must be the same all the time. This second point concerning identity is also something that Coach Harper got right. Indeed, he got it right when they ran the flex...
View ArticleNew Principle #1 – Part 3 – Three Key Offensive Ideas
I will end this point by offering three practical basketball principles for this empowerment. As I mentioned above, I don’t think an offensive mentality demands a specific style of play applied to...
View ArticleBack in Blogging Action
I sit here and wonder how many blog posts I have made with a title similar to this one. If you have ever read this blog, you know I take some hiatuses at times. They usually accompany times of life...
View Article9 – Accept Their Limits and Help Them do the Same
“Follow your dreams….you can be whoever you want to be…if you are committed enough and work hard enough, you can achieve greatness in whatever you wish…you can change the world….you control your own...
View Article“Top Dog” and Playing to Win
That’s the title of my current read. Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. I have loved it so far. That comes as no surprise considering how much I love to...
View Article‘Top Dog’ and The Hierarchy of Teams – Part 1
I finished reading this book last week. What a great read. Nothing terribly surprising per se, but good to read nonetheless. Oftentimes we need good writers to dig deeper into the obvious. Doing so...
View ArticleTop Dog and The Hierarchy of Teams – Part 2
I need to get this book back to the library in a few days, so I will put a few more thoughts together regarding the hierarchy of teams. At one point, Bronson and Merryman write, Having studied teams in...
View ArticleTop Dog and The Hierarchy of Teams – Part 3
On the importance of roles, Bronson and Merryman write, Clarifying who is going to do what – identifying distinct roles – is one of the most proven ways to increase the quality of teamwork. The...
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