As a fan of the game and even more so as a coach, I believe there are very few acceptable responses after a made basket. Further, to a special player, there’s really only one winning habit after a score: an immediate and automated reaction focused on the next best action. Coach Don Meyer called this …
Build a team, hire staff, recruit players, with extraordinary expectations, to do tasks extraordinarily. This will be rewarded with extraordinary results. Championship performance doesn’t necessarily result in championships. But, surrounding yourself with people who have developed championship-like habits, increases the likelihood that the championships will follow. As a worst case, they’re going to max out …
“The behavior of your players in their acceptance of fatigue, bad calls, turnovers, missed shots, being open and not getting the ball, harassment from opposing fans, trash talk from opponents, and teammates failures and successes will tell a coach all s/he needs to know about how well he is teaching the lifelong lessons of toughness.” …