Tag: WNBA

Avoid Mental Mistakes: Get Rid of These Two Sentences

Mental mistakes. If you want to minimize them, then take these two phrases out of your vocab: IT’s – “I’m tired” DFLI’s – “I don’t feel like it.” If you do, I’d argue that you will have essentially removed over 50% of the negative mental habits you’ll face as a high performance athlete. Those two …

How The Shot Clock Improves Player Development

One of the things that I enjoy about FIBA basketball is how skilled the players are. Since beginning to study and learn more about international basketball, the differences in style of play, rules, and player development structure, the one thing that jumps out is how the shot clock impacts how the game is taught, played …

What Level Are You Preparing Your Athletes To Play At?

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” —Albert Einstein Think about this quote for a second and ask yourself, does this thought apply to the way you develop an athlete? To borrow a thought from writer/teacher/coach/mentor, Dick DeVenzio, I continually ask athletes, to ask themselves, …

Me, We.

“Me, we.” —Muhammad Ali … Acknowledged as the shortest poem written, these profound words were delivered by Ali to a Harvard senior class commencement. They resonate true, for me, for a many reasons. … I recently left what many consider to be a “dream job“. And, for all intents and purposes, it was. With time, …