A favourite book of mine is The Art of Possibility, by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander. It’s a great read for anyone. I have referenced ideas from it quite frequently wearing my coaching hat, but have also done the same during corporate speaking engagements. With all credit going to Ben and Roz… The following thoughts …
The NYTimes.com featured and article, “It’s a Vision Thing for Nash in Soccer and Basketball.” To be frank, it’s not an overly enticing read, but what jumped out to me was something that I’ve been toiling with at length for quite some time: vision. And, how to teach it. In the article, Claudio Reyna, long-time …
Day 15 on my Euro trip… I take back what I wrote earlier about Bratislava. I spoke to soon. As it turns out, we’re staying in what could be considered the ‘suburbs’ relative to downtown Bratislava where the action is taking place. For my Canadian peeps, think Mississauga relative to downtown Toronto. Where we are …
Day 13 of the Euro trip… Yesterday and today we took in some of the most enjoyable games of the women’s FIBA U19 World Championship so far: Serbia vs. Czech and Spain vs. Slovakia were especially good. There’s a distinct style of play that each country plays with that make it so much fun to …
Our Canucks lost to Lithuania last night ranking them as 10th of 212 basketball countries in the world. An accomplishment needless to say – especially in light of the fact that this is the first time we’ve qualified for the world championships with a team at this age group (U17). Things To Acclimate To… Yoda …
Big shout out to everyone from Novi Sad, Serbia! It’s Day 3 of my journey and my first opportunity to really get online and bang out some thoughts in theLLaBB. I’ve learned so much, and met so many, in such a short period of time, that I’m really excited about the coming 2 1/2 weeks. …
It’s been some time since I’ve been able to hop online, so I’ve woken at 6am, borrowed a laptop from the women’s team manager (thanks Moriah!) and came down to holla at everyone in theLLaBB. I find myself now in the city of Bratislava, Slovakia, for for the FIBA U19 Women’s World Championship. There are …