Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 13 | Issue 656 |
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"PROPER PERSPECTIVE" (GREGG POPOVICH AND JOHN WOODEN) San Antonio Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich (5 NBA Titles) and John Wooden both understood the importance of making sure their players kept things in proper perspective.
Coach Wooden defined confidence this way: "Respect without fear. May come from being prepared and keeping all things in proper perspective."
Coach Wooden’s players recalled that on their recruiting trips, Coach spoke very little (if at all) about basketball. Their conversations centered around their families. Family, Faith, and Friends was his perspective. Coach’s conversations with his players away from practice were usually not about basketball.
In his book "The Culture Code", Daniel Coyle gave an example of how Coach Popovich keeps things in proper perspective:
"It’s the morning of April 4, 2014. The night before, in one of the most important games of the regular season, the Spurs were thumped 106–94 by their archrival, the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now, as practice begins, there is a tightness in the air, a taste of unease.
The Spurs gather in the video room to review the Oklahoma City game. They sit down with trepidation, expecting Popovich to detail the sins of the previous night.
But when Popovich clicked on the video, the screen flickered with a CNN documentary on the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. The team watched in silence as the story unfolded: Martin Luther King, Jr., Lyndon Johnson, and the Selma marches. When it was over, Popovich asked questions. He always asks questions, and those questions are always the same: personal, direct, focused on the big picture. What did you think of it? What would you have done in that situation?
The players thought, answered, nodded. The room shifted and became something of a seminar, a conversation. They talked. They were not surprised, because on the Spurs this kind of thing happened all the time. Popovich had delivered his message: "There are bigger things than basketball to which we are all connected."
Do you keep things in proper perspective?
Yours in Coaching, Craig Impelman
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Roses, Birds And Some Men The world is full of roses, blooming red for me I and you, Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)
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