On dribbling into a trap, leading more like a conductor, and choosing to grow
August 8 | The 3-Point Play
BASKETBALL TIP
Don’t dribble into a trap unless your receivers are in positions where it is clear to you that you will have an easy pass to make, immediately, as you begin to be trapped.
Whether you meet a potential double-team on a full-court press or a half-court trap makes no difference. Bring three teammates near you (do it verbally if you have to).
Then you can dribble into the double-team with confidence and be ready to throw the ball past it at the moment (or just before) you meet it.
LEADERSHIP LESSON
“Meekness is not weakness. It’s power under control. It’s ambition grounded with humility and lived out in confidence, not arrogance.
Quiet and appropriate confidence is way more attractive than loud and outspoken arrogance. Those who know the most many times are the ones who say the least.
Humble leaders are willing to pass on the credit but absorb the criticism, push others higher while making themselves lower, and put the team’s desires ahead of their own.
A leader’s job is to shepherd, not necessarily to always shine. It’s about the mission, the team, and the tribe, not about you and your ego. Leaders today should be more like conductors than solo artists.”
– Brad Lomenick
LIFE PRINCIPLE
“You are either green and growing or you are ripe and rotting. You pick.”
– James C. Hunter
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