Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Notes by Coach JB
Page Notes
99 Toughness isn’t an absence of fear. It is the courage to face it, to keep plugging and to
Justin Matthew Brandt
CoachJustinBrandt@gmail.com
215-817-8565
CoachJB.weebly.com
overcome it.
102 Many players step onto the floor with the mind-set that “my man” is not going to score.
But the toughest players play “team” man-to-man defense…making certain that OUR
TEAM keeps THEIR TEAM from scoring.
104 Daryl Woods (NASA Engineer) on teamwork using the analogy of a spacecraft. Each
specific element of the vehicle is not so important that it can fly by itself, but, each element
is so important that the vehicle cannot fly without it.
105 On defense, a true team player, a tough player, needs to be responsible for his specific role
and assignment, but accountable to the mission, which is to stop the opponent from
scoring on the defensive end. Responsible to the element (guarding my man) and
accountable to the mission (all five guys, together, stopping our opponent).
“Responsible to the element, accountable to the mission.” – Daryl Woods
106 Five as one instead of just five ones. – Jay Bilas
106 To be an effective communicator, a great teammate and tough player has to talk, but also
has to be able to listen. Nobody ever learned anything while talking. You have to know
how to listen, and you have to be away of what to listen for.
109 Mark Price & Johnny Dawkins rivalry, “Amaker wasn’t going to let Price score, but more
important, Amaker was not going to let Price score over Johnny Dawkins.”
110 “A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
111 “Toughness is the ability to respond positively to any situation. You take emotion out of it
without losing your passion and inspiration, and you apply discipline to work through it, to
work through the problem and do it together. You concentrate on the things you can
control while still being aware of the things you can’t control but still can affect your
mission.” – Daryl Woods
113 “Are you tough enough to hold a teammate accountable to your team’s standards? That
can be uncomfortable, and requires toughness on both sides of the conversation, or the
confrontation.” – Grant Hill
116 “You have to push each other and challenge each other, but make sure you hug each
other after. In a supportive and trust environment, you can challenge each other. It is okay
to go at it – you have to go at it – but you also have to be ‘one group’ after you at it.”
– Julie Foudy
120 Basketball wasn’t about distance running. You didn’t have to be a champion miler to be a
good basketball player. It was an excuse, or rationalization, for simply not being tough
enough to endure it.
Bilas ran a 5:40 and Mark Alarie a 5:11 mile. Alarie trained to endure the pain of
training and Bilas trained to make the mile as comfortable as possible. When all
else fails EMBRACE THE SUCK!
121 Herm Edwards measures a player’s toughness by the very last wind sprint in fitness
training. Is that player going to run just fast enough to finish in the middle of the pack?
“You know it’s going to burn, and nobody’s watching. If you can push through and give
that effort, do what it takes, to push through it, not just get through it, that’s a mental
disposition you don’t want to play against. You don’t want to play against those guys. They
make it too hard on you.”
121 “There was never a time I thought I could give in, that I was too tired or it was too hard.
He couldn’t even fall out of his chair, and I wasn’t going to run downcourt because it was
just too hard? No way.”…Mark Alarie on his brother’s cerebral palsy condition as a
motivator.
Page Notes