It’s one thing to be great at your craft. There are many — both in sport and out of it — who are exceptionally gifted at what they do. Yet, so many fail to be able to effectively articulate it so others can make sense of it. Steve Nash is an exception amongst exceptions. To …
Here are two insightful clips from an NBC interview with Steve Nash that I stumbled upon. He is very articulate and well spoken and gives good insight into the psychology of being a great teammate and leader. “THE ART OF BEING A POINT GUARD” “A LESSON IN LIFE”
Sundance Channel has a great series called Iconoclasts. This is an original series that features “intimate, unpredictable portraits of creative visionaries whose passion for what they do has transformed our culture. Get an inside look at their lives from fellow creative pioneers and discover how their work has raised the bar on excellence.” That description …
I was just asked yesterday to give some thought to the notion of mental toughness. That is, what is it and how do I define it? Beyond that, how do you develop it? Here are some of my thoughts on how I have defined mental toughness to this point. Much of this is an accumulation …
“If you want to be good, you’ve got to practice.” —Steve Nash Sometimes the media machine can deliver messages far better than we can as coaches. Nike got it right with this Nash commercial. /sef.
I’m going to try, with great effort, to keep this one short… Check out NYtimes.com Play Magazine. It’s a well written article on Steve Nash; more so, about who he is off-court and part of what makes him tick. In it, the author Chip Brown asks Nash what drove him, beyond the obvious goal of …
For almost 10 years, I was fortunate to coach in, and contribute to the growth of, Canada Basketball’s Centre for/de Performance (or “CP” as everyone in Canada fondly references it). At the time, CP was a nationally run program directed by Canada Basketball and delivered by the provinces. Its mandate was to identify and develop athletes – between the …
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 …