Many of us have drunk the Kool-Aid, ridden the rollercoaster, and shared the thrill of victory and agony of defeat. We bought into the "high stakes," dog-eat-dog world of travel sports, the Arms Race to nowhere - scholarship, recruiting, NIL money.

The Value Is Real

Value is real - physical fitness, less cancer, lower mental health problems, fewer teen preg...

Life education throws a firehose of information at us. Filter and distill that abundance into sharable buckets.

Where can the mastery-driven newcomer or intermediate-level practitioner turn for a starter set? Recognize that these concepts apply broadly across domains whether you're a coach, manager, or business owner. 

Wooden's Pyramid of Success

"We are drunk on our own ideas." - Rolf Dobelli in The Art of Thinking Clearly

Dobelli informs the NIH principle - not invented here. Most of us value our own ideas, simply because they are ours.

Coach Ellis Lane told me a...

Study video every day and learn.

Great players find ways to get open. Miami draws two and Adebayo who is a threat from the perimeter, sets up a drive and gets an "easy" stepback for him.  

The "godfather" of analytics, Dean Oliver (Basketball on Paper), triggered an explosion of mathematical "explanations" for winning.

There's a mindset of "you know it when you see it" and another of "you know it when you measure it." Every game sums a mass of individual possessions. 

"Everybody knows that" became quantitative (measurable)....