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here’s the “CliffsNotes” version. Find a couple to emphasize for your players – “connector” resonates for me.
1. Win the one-on-one battles
2. 70 second half points against the NBA’s number one defense
3. NBA draft “steal” at number 30, Baylor Scheierman
4. Influenced games with feel, timing, decision-making
5. Versatility defines development
6. Ability to create advantage
7. “Processing speed” and decision-making
8. Toughness, vision, confidence
9. Identify “winning traits”
10.Connector to enhance surrounding players
11.Decision-making without sacrificing spacing
12.Resilience despite injury
13.The game requires collective execution
14.Shooting gravity enhances spacing
15.Depth produces antifragility
16.Emphasis on reading plays (“feel for the game”)
17.”Continuing to crash every play”
18.”Work has prepared me for this.”
19.”Grateful for the opportunity…”
20.Elite teammates’ gravity create shots via spacing
Lagniappe. Surround yourself with compounders. 45 years ago as a young doctor, I ate lunch with older doctors and “picked their brains.” My peers asked why I sometimes ate with older guys. “They know things and share them.”
Surround yourself with compounders: pic.twitter.com/IKyLiE69o8
— Reads with Ravi (@readswithravi) March 21, 2026
Lagniappe 2. Officials need to call what they see. Often they do.
This is what people mean when say “unethical” hoops. This is simply not Basketball. Try to stick your arm underneath someone else’s to make it look like you got hooked. No real effort to try and get by them. Call it crafty if you want, I say it’s lazy.pic.twitter.com/uG0MziO3cx
— John Zannis (@John_Zannis) March 26, 2026