COACH K'S 3 SYSTEMS OF PLAY: OFFENSE, DEFENSE AND COMMUNICATION

From Bob Starkey's http://tinyurl.com/Hoop-Thoughts Blog

COACH K'S 3 SYSTEMS OF PLAY: OFFENSE, DEFENSE AND COMMUNICATION

The following is a short excerpt from the newsobserver.com written by Barry Jacobs.  It details Coach Krzyzewski and is role in the Duke business school's Center of Leadership and Ethics.  Coach K, with all his championships may leave his biggest legacy by how he is developing leaders -- in all walks of life.  That article is fascinating and well worth the read here.  But in this short excerpt, we point out as we have before how Coach K stresses communication with his team to the point that he considers it a phase of their system of play.  Here is what Jacobs writes about that:

Krzyzewski, an executive-in-residence at the Duke business school’s Center of Leadership and Ethics, mounted the bleachers prior to the end-of-practice scrimmage to explain to Leadership Summit members what he had observed of his team and what the session had aimed to accomplish. 

“We’re trying to teach three systems at the same time,” he said. “We’re trying to teach an offensive system, a defensive system, and a system of communication. When you’re tired or whatever, one of the first things, especially guys do, is they keep their damn mouth shut. They do not say a damn word.”

The practice stressed talking to one another and getting back to pressure defense, Krzyzewski said, following several days in which the focus was on zone and zone press tactics. The very nature of teaching the less-preferred defenses had caused the team to come to expect stoppages for illustrative purposes. Consequently, with habits not yet firmly established, the squad’s return to continuous action on defense was “only somewhat successful,” the coach observed.

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3 Kinds of Players

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HOOPTHOUGHTS FLASHBACK: @JohnCMaxwell says there are three kinds of players 
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THREE KINDS OF PLAYERS

1. People who don’t want the ball.

2. People who want the ball but shouldn’t.

3. People who want the ball and should.

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Rockers invade NYC Rose Classic

From:  Joe Fenelon of NYG Hoops Report & Blue Star Media

Rockers invade NYC Rose Classic

May 19th, 2013 Not many teams from out to the New York tri-state area come into PS113 in Brooklyn NY, at theNike Rose Classic and leave with a 4-1 record in the high school division. Last weekend thePittsburgh Rockers Organization did just that. The rockers traveled to NY, with only 7 youngladies. The following young ladies are the D1 players on the Rockers Roster. Contact Coach Dorsey for more info on his players at howarddorsey@gmail.com or 412-758-9150.

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MAKE SURE ALL THE DOGS SEE THE RABBIT

I borrowed this post from one of my favorite blogs: Coach Bob Starkey's Hoop Thoughts Blog, he got it from Lt. General Russel L. Honore's book "Leadership In The New Normal."  I hope he doesn't mind but this was too good not to pass along and he also helped the General sell a book!

MAKE SURE ALL THE DOGS SEE THE RABBIT

The following is a great story by Lt. General Russel L. Honore from his book "Leadership In The New Normal."  It reminds me of Coach Don Meyer talking about the importance of not just "seeing the picture" but "painting the picture."

When in charge, take charge.  When you have the opportunity to make a difference, make a difference.  And every now and then, check to make sure you still have followers.

When I was a kid we lived near a plantation.  That plantation had a sugarcane field on one side of the road and row of small houses on the other, and every house had a dog.  Every now and then a rabbit would break out of the sugarcane field and get spotted by a dog.  The dog would take off after it, and as he went down the road, other dogs would join the chase.  Pretty soon that lead dog would have seven, eight, ten dogs running and barking behind him.  They'd keep running and barking until they passed every house.  All the kids in the yards would stand up and watch.

But after about a minute, all but one of the dogs would quit running, leaving only the lead dog chasing the rabbit.  You see, the rest of the dogs started running and barking because they saw the lead dog doing it, and if it seemed worth running behind him, they followed.  But the couldn't see the rabbit, so they stopped.  But the dog that could see the rabbit, he kept running.

You might see the rabbit, but if the people behind you don't, they won't be running for long.  They're going to fall off.  They're going to be nonbelievers.  They're going to become non-performers.

If you're the leader, you have to be sure everyone behind you sees the vision.  They have to see where you want to go.

That's why as a leader, your job is to make sure the purpose stays visible, attainable, and worth running toward.  If you don't, you followers will stop thinking there's a reason to run.

Tip-off: Proud!

Imagine driving down your local highway and when you just merge into traffic you look up to see, well you! Cool huh, oh you don't know me either. But that is exactly what happened to Tanisha Wright this week and words can't describe how proud I am of her! Yup, that is her alright and there are several scattered throughout the Greater Seattle area!

I have had the pleasure of knowing Tanisha since she was 14 years old and I was asked to look at an extremely talented, but raw freshman at West Mifflin. She decided to play for our AAU team and the rest is history. Throughout the years, I have seen her basketball ups and downs, graduate HS & College, become a pro athlete, and a smart, successful business woman.”Woman”, when we first met she was a kid and now she is a grown woman... Insert smile here! Although we had a great player-coach relationship (even though I had to throw her out of the gym a couple times), it is the friendship that emerged that I am most fond of. I’m not a good friend, I never tried hard enough, but this is one I think I will.