Understanding Athlete Leadership Processes
BASKETBALL TIP
Having a great attitude means understanding the big picture–realizing and having a special sense about winning and losing games and how you act and how hard you work and how you relate with teammates and how you respond to the coach and how you react to negative events. It’s all there.
With the right attitude, you don’t need the perfect blueprint. You don’t need to be able to anticipate every tiny detail or every incident that might come up in a game, because your attitude prepares you in general for everything, and therefore you are fully prepared for anything.
LEADERSHIP LESSON
“The leader must be in charge of getting things done by running the three core processes—picking other leaders, setting the strategic direction, and conducting operations.”
– Ram Charan
LIFE PRINCIPLE
“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change. We have evolved to always live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it’s the mildly dissatisfied and insecure creature that’s going to do the most work to innovate and survive.”
– Mark Manson
Every Thursday, when your inbox lights up with the Think the Game Thursday email, you’ll get these focused, action‑ready pieces of content that fit into any schedule:
- A basketball‑IQ boost – A short, sharp breakdown that teaches you how elite players read the floor, anticipate decisions, and control possessions.
- A coach‑approved drill – A simple concept, drill, or teaching tool you can plug straight into workouts or team practice.
- A leadership insight that strengthens communication and culture
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About PGC
PGC Basketball provides intense, no-nonsense basketball training for players and coaches. Our basketball camps are designed to teach players of all positions to play smart basketball, be coaches on the court, and be leaders in practices, games and in everyday life.
We combine our unique PGC culture with a variety of teaching methods and learning environments to maximize the learning potential of those that attend our sessions. In addition to spending 6-7 hours on the court each day, lessons will be reinforced through classroom sessions and video analysis.
Our goal at PGC is to empower you with the tools to fulfill your basketball dreams, while also assisting you in experiencing the joy of the journey.
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