*Playing hard makes up for a multitude of mistakes
*The only thing you can guarantee in basketball is that you play hard.
*Do we play harder than everyone else?
*You don't play hard for 2 reasons- lazy(mentally), play too many minutes.
*Play to win- effort isn't enough, we need intensity and technique.
*Work fast enough to make a mistake, if you don't make a mistake you're not working fast enough.
*Get into the now- not last play or the next play- this play.
*Discipline- doing things right every time- seperates average and great players.
*A great team doens't have to have the coach telling them to talk.
*Winning or losing shouldn't make a team listen better or worse.
*Alabama Football Locker- Don't come back until you improved
*Breakout years often start with conditioning.
*Continue to overcome Human Nature- Human Nature says to do what is best for me rather than what is best for the team.
TOUGHNESS:
*Toughness- responding appropriately to the task at hand, it is being focused on the direct correlation between defense and toughness. You can't have a tough team without defense.
*Accepting a coach's criticism is toughness.
*Toughness- you have to be mentally tough to be physically tough and vice versa.
*Everyone is going to make loads of mistakes- fight through them.
*You need a blue collar team to win it- toughness, mental, and physical.
*A tough team talks loudly.
*Have you ever seen a great program that doesn't have great communication?
*Good teams have 1 or 2 guys that do the dirty jobs. Great teams have all of their guys do the dirty work.
*Scared teams and don't talk.
