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How to Motivate Your Basketball Players and Build Better Culture · A Quick Timeout

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Coach are you tired of scrolling through social media for hours
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SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to another episode of A Quick Timeout Podcast.
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Today I'm joined by someone who is doing some great work in the
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coaching space,
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Hunter Price.
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Hunter has spent years studying the intersection of culture and
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performance,
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and he's taken that experience to write a soon-to-be-launched
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new book titled Care
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SPEAKER_00: to Compete,
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SPEAKER_00: The Coach's Guide to Connection That Wins the Margins.
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SPEAKER_00: Hunter, thanks for jumping on the show.
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Tony thanks for having me on I've been waiting for this I've
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listened to your
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podcast especially the culture building ones and I was super
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excited to hop in
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myself yeah fantastic I'm excited to have you on and kind of
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extend that a little
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SPEAKER_00: bit give us some more that's something that
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SPEAKER_00: You know,
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SPEAKER_00: the X's and O's,
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I've found that coaches are really thirsty for the culture
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component of it and
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SPEAKER_00: people are doing it.
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SPEAKER_00: But I think that finding an organized system,
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SPEAKER_00: maybe that's kind of what I wanted to ask you about.
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Just start with like a little bit of background of the concept
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behind the book and
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SPEAKER_00: why you went this direction.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'd love to.
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SPEAKER_01: So essentially,
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SPEAKER_01: as a coach and as an athlete,
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SPEAKER_01: something that was a thorn in my side for my entire career and playing,
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SPEAKER_01: coaching,
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all of it was that I knew there was people in the foxhole with
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me that just didn't
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SPEAKER_01: care about the same mission that I cared about.
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SPEAKER_01: However,
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SPEAKER_01: anytime we had a guest speaker,
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SPEAKER_01: anytime we'd have a vulnerable conversation,
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SPEAKER_01: whatever it might be,
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SPEAKER_01: everyone would be like,
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SPEAKER_01: yeah,
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SPEAKER_01: I'm all about this team.
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SPEAKER_01: I totally care.
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SPEAKER_01: And I'd go, there's just no way.
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SPEAKER_01: And if you're a coach listening right now,
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I would have to imagine you've never had a year where you felt
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like every player
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SPEAKER_01: every coach was unanimously bought into the mission.
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So Tony I'm thinking about this for a really long time and it's
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bothering me like
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why is it is it that people are liars is it they're not aware
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what is the root
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SPEAKER_01: cause of this disconnect in the locker room.
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and then one day I start this new job and we're doing this
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training meet people
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sort of thing and someone goes hey nice to meet you Hunter what
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do you care about
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and I said well I have a care about my wife Natalie my kids
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Griffin and Nolan and
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the Green Bay Packers and it was like a movie I had an aha
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moment I was like oh my
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gosh the word care is this terrible word because all those
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things were true and I
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SPEAKER_01: didn't lie about any of them however
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SPEAKER_01: That's totally different levels of how I feel about those things.
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The way I care about my wife is totally different than the way
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I care about the
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SPEAKER_01: Green Bay Packers.
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SPEAKER_01: However, the word care can be used for both.
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And then I realized anytime we talk about players in your
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culture and your locker
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SPEAKER_01: room,
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SPEAKER_01: your program,
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SPEAKER_01: we talk about them caring,
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SPEAKER_01: they may all genuinely think they do.
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SPEAKER_01: But they don't understand the level of what you're talking about.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's all about building awareness and starting from there.
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SPEAKER_00: Talking a little bit more about care.
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SPEAKER_00: I know in the book,
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you kind of you put together kind of a formula that encompasses
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what that word
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SPEAKER_00: means in the varying degrees,
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SPEAKER_00: like you said,
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SPEAKER_00: may may be adjusted.
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Can you talk about those elements and why both are required and
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maybe even to what
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SPEAKER_00: happens when one of those elements is missing?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
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SPEAKER_01: So I as I
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Tracked this thought down and I sat on it and I like visual
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representations so I
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came I was like I need a formula what is care now that I
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understand the disconnect
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what is it and I was like I think we all understand the verbal
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it's saying the
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SPEAKER_01: right thing so like I'm
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, coach.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, coach.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll do it.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll make the exchanges, all those things.
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But we're missing the physical side of what care looks like,
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which is the work ethic.
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So the equation I came up with was very simple as care equals
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selflessness plus work ethic.
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you have to have both in my opinion to say like I care about
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this team genuinely
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and you have these people who maybe they're selfless they're so
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coachable Tony and
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they'll say yes coach every time they'll look you in the eye
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they won't talk back
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they'll do what you ask them to do and they think they care but
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those are the guys
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SPEAKER_01: that
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SPEAKER_01: Man, they don't really lift that hard.
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SPEAKER_01: They don't come in and shoot extra.
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They don't do anything above what's required and maybe even
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what's slightly below,
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SPEAKER_01: whatever they can get away with.
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But they assume just because I'm rooting for my teammates,
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I'm bought into the mission.
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SPEAKER_01: So that's one fallacy.
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SPEAKER_01: The other side of that is you have the work ethic.
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SPEAKER_01: I show up early to shoot.
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SPEAKER_01: I stay late to shoot.
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SPEAKER_01: I do the ice bath.
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SPEAKER_01: I do the lifts.
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SPEAKER_01: I do all those things.
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and I think because I work super hard I care about this team
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but every time you
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pull me out I shake my head or I hang my head or I don't say
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yes coach or I talk
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back or argue back I would argue that's just as destructive as
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a form of not caring
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and they both groups of people genuinely believe that they care
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about the team and
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the program and hearing that I'm sure you could imagine
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different athletes in your
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SPEAKER_01: program and going that's that kid that's that kid
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That's the problem is they would never confess that they don't
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truly care because
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SPEAKER_01: they genuinely think they do.
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SPEAKER_00: One of the things that we're trying to do is to help them thrive.
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SPEAKER_00: In order for them to do that,
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SPEAKER_00: you talk about in the book that they need to have autonomy,
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SPEAKER_00: competence and relatedness.
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SPEAKER_00: I'd love for you to kind of elaborate on those three things.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, autonomy is interesting.
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SPEAKER_01: I think this generation needs more autonomy.
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Than Any Other Generation They Want To Be Able To Choose So
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Like Let's Just Take
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Video Games For Example They Used To Be Very Simple It Was Do
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This Task Play This
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Game Now If A Video Game Is Not What They Would Call An Open
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World Video Game Or
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SPEAKER_01: You Can Go Wherever You Want And Do Whatever You Want
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then they're not interested so as we've progressed kids want
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more and more autonomy
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so that's the ability to make choices now that's the hardest
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line to toe as a coach
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because you can't give away too much of your authority and
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decision making to 16 to
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22 year olds you just can't because they're not always gonna
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make the best decision
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so what things can you give to them warm-up shirt design
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pregame playlist warm-up
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SPEAKER_01: drills like you have to find
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What are some things along this path that I can give them
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autonomy on so they're invested?
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SPEAKER_01: And someone that's a little bit more seasoned in the career might go,
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SPEAKER_01: I'm not giving these kids nothing.
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SPEAKER_01: What's your prerogative?
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SPEAKER_01: But every generation is different.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's what this one prefers.
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SPEAKER_01: Competency is really simple.
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SPEAKER_01: Are they improving at their skill and their craft?
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SPEAKER_01: And the relatedness is do they buy into who you are as a human being?
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Which Is A Topic That I Find Myself Talking About A Lot And I
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Wrote About This In
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The Book One Of My Favorite Stories In Sports Was The USA
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Basketball At The Last
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Olympics The Steph Curry LeBron Kevin Durant All This Stuff So
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I Watched The
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Documentary And It Gets To Serbia's Coach Nikola Jokic's Coach
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And He's Interviewed
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And He Says Something Along The Lines Of I Used To Be Able To
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Just Tell My Athletes
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SPEAKER_01: What To Do And They Would Do It Now They Have To Trust Who I Am
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SPEAKER_01: and what I'm about and what I'm saying before they'll do the thing.
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SPEAKER_01: So that's the relatedness factor.
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Just the way this generation is Tony and I'm sure I'd be
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curious to know what
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SPEAKER_01: you've seen because I'm sure you've done this for a while.
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SPEAKER_01: Are you seeing that too?
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Especially I think all three components of those have changed
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significantly since I
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started doing this and finding ways like you said I'm glad you
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gave some examples
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of the autonomy component of it because they do want to be able
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to have input on
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things but like you said it's not that they want to do that to
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the exclusion of
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SPEAKER_00: having you there.
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but if you're going to be there you better know what you're
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talking about otherwise
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they're just going to completely write you off and that goes
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kind of the middle
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component too is your competence is extremely important and
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staying like current on
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things as well breeds and help them grow in their competence as
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well so I'm on
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SPEAKER_00: board with all three of I yeah it's fantastic
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah,
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SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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SPEAKER_01: the biggest thing is that we just,
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SPEAKER_01: I think we assume,
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SPEAKER_01: I talk to a lot of coaches,
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SPEAKER_01: that's been such a blessing.
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SPEAKER_01: So this book is not just me.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a product of communicating with a lot of people smarter than me.
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And me just having the vulnerability to say,
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I don't understand,
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help me understand.
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SPEAKER_01: And as I talk to coaches, they want to control so bad.
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SPEAKER_01: Like coaches are a proud group of people.
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SPEAKER_01: Like they want control.
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SPEAKER_01: They don't want to give that away.
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SPEAKER_01: And a lot of these things are...
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what can what can you give them I understand you shouldn't give
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them everything
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what can you give them in what ways can you lower a wall down
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and a lot of people
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think this word care is this soft ooey gooey maybe feminine
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word and I struggled
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with that for the title of the book I was like are people gonna
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think this is just
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this sensitive soft culture type of book no I care about my
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kids and I discipline
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SPEAKER_01: them I discipline them hard
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I know coaches are familiar with this but it's something that I
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don't necessarily
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know that we talk a lot about in sports whereas we do talk
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about it a lot in
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SPEAKER_00: entertainment and I know in business and specifically in marketing that
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and that's just simply this idea of the hero's journey where
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you as the coach are
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really designed to be the guide that's there to help that
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person succeed but I
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think that a lot of times and think that either we're the
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actual hero of the story
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or the winning is the main thing and these are simply pawns
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that are going to help
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SPEAKER_00: us achieve that right nobody wants to hear
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The Sport Is About More Than Winning Or Losing Because That's
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Not True Either You
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Know I Work In A Lot Of Christian Sports Organizations And One
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Thing That Grinds My
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Gears Is When People Say Well It's Not About The Victories It's
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Like What Are We
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Doing Here Then If It's Not About Winning Or Losing Then I'm
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Very Clear Line That's
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I find myself going back and forth with this next one and it is
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the idea of
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SPEAKER_00: electing team captains versus just kind of having them emerge.
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How did you decide to stop doing the selection of the captains
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and instead let the
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SPEAKER_00: leaders come to the forefront naturally?
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Well,
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I'm going to give away a story in the book,
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which is totally fine with me.
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I just want to help coaches out so really whatever so my first
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year as a varsity
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coach I walk I walk into the locker room I'm like man I'm about
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to take this school
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by storm we're gonna turn this thing around I'm 26 and I'm
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probably the youngest
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coach in the state at that point and uh I go all right guys
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we're gonna choose team
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captains what everyone does we don't even think about it we
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just do it team
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SPEAKER_01: captains and I just get this huge drama fight
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as a result and what happened was my best player by far was a
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sophomore and none of
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the seniors liked him because he was taking their minutes and
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also he's kind of
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like coach's dream and they didn't like that he was always yes
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coach and he got
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made fun of for that which is a shame and so we vote for team
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captains and none of
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SPEAKER_01: them vote for him he probably should have been
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SPEAKER_01: And he comes to me after they leave and he's upset.
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SPEAKER_01: He's like, Coach, I've put more work in than any of these guys.
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SPEAKER_01: I know that for a fact.
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SPEAKER_01: I care more than any of these guys.
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SPEAKER_01: I know that for a fact.
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SPEAKER_01: And I think it's bogus.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm not a team captain.
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SPEAKER_01: And I kind of sat there for a second and I thought about it.
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SPEAKER_01: And I said, Gus, I want you to go home.
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SPEAKER_01: I want you to think about what does a team captain do?
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What is upsetting you that you're not going to get to do that
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you didn't get chosen for?
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then come back to me tomorrow and we'll talk about it so he
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comes back to me the
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next day he walks into my classroom and he goes hey coach I
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know why you told me to
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think about that now I honestly don't know what a team captain
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even does and I
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thought about it too and I was like I don't know really what a
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high school team
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captain does I know there's captain's workouts there's a
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captain's meeting and I
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SPEAKER_01: thought to myself if you have to be named a captain to lead
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you're not a captain like if I have to physically name you hey
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you're our team leader
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SPEAKER_01: You're probably not a good team leader to start with.
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It should be something that someone rises up and starts leading
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and people naturally follow.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what real leadership looks like.
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SPEAKER_01: So from that day on, the rest of my career, no team captains.
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SPEAKER_01: We'd cycle through the pregame handshake line with whatever seniors.
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SPEAKER_01: And then I started thinking to myself,
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SPEAKER_01: man,
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I'm going to put the bottom of my rotation guys in these
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meetings because my
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SPEAKER_01: starters are losing two minutes of the game of warmups,
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SPEAKER_01: shaking hands and going over rules.
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And then the more I did that coaches started asking me they're
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like why are you
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sending those guys out there I explained they're like oh my
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gosh you're actually
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right on that one and I was like well there's an aspect of
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coaching I think that's
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not being afraid to step outside the box and think about those
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things so that's the
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SPEAKER_01: whole story behind the captaincy
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SPEAKER_00: This next one I call game winning plays versus the box score.
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SPEAKER_00: Rewarding effort and not just the sports center plays or a stat line.
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SPEAKER_00: Ways to do that with your team are what?
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SPEAKER_01: In Wisconsin, where I was at, I was between Madison and Milwaukee.
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SPEAKER_01: And I was at a rural school.
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SPEAKER_01: And there's a lot of talent in Madison and Milwaukee.
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You're starting to see all these Wisconsin kids go to the
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college and NBA level at
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SPEAKER_01: a high rate right now.
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I knew I would never have the talent to win playoff games
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against these teams it
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just wasn't possible so it came down to how what can I win at I
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think it was the
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intangibles what I call winning in the margins what I don't
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call somebody else
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called it that I just use the word and I was like I gotta win
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games in the margins
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and that's just hustle and IQ so I'm toying with some things
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and one of the things
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I came to was the wall of hustle anytime someone took a charge
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dove on the ground
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SPEAKER_01: for a ball
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Chase Down and Transition whatever it was extra hustle related
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I screenshotted it I
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put it on the wall in our locker room and we call it the wall
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of hustle and for
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every year I coached that wall filled up and we had the most
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charges I think by far
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in our conference every year because they wanted to be on that
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wall and what I
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SPEAKER_01: realized as I'm collecting thoughts for this book was
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it was effective because I wasn't rewarding the points so
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everyone had a chance to
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get that stat and I think as coaches you owe it to your team
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your program to find a
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way to reward the things that everybody can do regardless of
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their scoring ability
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we went to that a couple years ago we got figurines and handed
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out figurines each
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SPEAKER_00: week at the beginning of each week got to the
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SPEAKER_00: of all ages to understand.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I work with a lot of coaches now doing coach coaching, essentially.
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And the number one complaint I hear any conversation I'm in as
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this generation,
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SPEAKER_01: dot,
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SPEAKER_01: and you've heard it all.
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SPEAKER_01: So you could fill in the blank yourself.
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SPEAKER_01: And I started thinking to myself, like, I just don't like this.
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SPEAKER_01: Why don't I like this?
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SPEAKER_01: Because it's an excuse every generation, their parents said,
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Sucks you know like these the coaches the parents the teachers
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like these kids
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these days stink for us it was something for our parents it was
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something going
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back to like the hippie days you know like there's always
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something in every
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generation turned out okay like we're fine as human beings I I
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think I hope I am
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SPEAKER_01: and uh it so I don't think that's a
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Viable Excuse So What Do You Do With That Information You Have
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To Learn How This
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Generation Operates And I Talked About It A Little Bit But They
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Really Want To
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SPEAKER_01: Trust Who They're Getting Their Information From Because There's So Much
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Disinformation Out There You Have The New Cycles Of Social
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Media The AI Now Or
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SPEAKER_01: They're Just Like Is This Real Is This Not They Want To Know Are You Real
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SPEAKER_01: Are you the real deal?
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SPEAKER_01: Can I trust what you're saying?
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SPEAKER_01: If they can't, they're not going to listen.
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SPEAKER_01: And you might say, that's stupid.
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SPEAKER_01: I agree.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not great.
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SPEAKER_01: But that's how it is.
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So we can either do something about it or we can complain about
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it and find zero results.
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SPEAKER_01: And I think there's a bunch of,
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SPEAKER_01: I saw college coaches in the last five years that said,
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SPEAKER_01: I'm out on this.
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SPEAKER_01: I just can't
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maybe it's NIL related maybe whatever it is but they're just
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like I can't adjust to
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the times like this I'm going to have to step back and I think
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that's fine but
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every generation had something so you have to learn as a staff
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and as a coach
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yourself how are we adjusting and I think a fine line is what
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things are we willing
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to sacrifice and say you know what we'll give you this and what
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things are you
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going to say no this is our standard regardless of how times
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change and I think
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SPEAKER_01: there's an appropriate level for each
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Is there a hill that you used to die on that you've learned to
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let go and build
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SPEAKER_00: better connections?
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I don't know how valid this hill is but it is pretty popular
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when I talk to people
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about it and that's color coordination you know shoes socks
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warm-ups things like
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SPEAKER_01: that like I really wanted my shoes to be coordinated the same color
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That Was A Hill Not Worth Dying On Anymore I Think Everyone
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That Could Relate To
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That Struggle I Really Wanted Tony For The Team To Have The
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Same Shoes And One Year
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My Team Gave It To Me I Was So Happy Like I Was Tickled But I
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Learned To Die On
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That Tie To That What About You The Shoes This Was Probably
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Only Three Years Ago So
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It's Not Like I Learned This A Long Time Ago But I Had A Son
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Who Became Interested
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SPEAKER_00: In Basketball And
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SPEAKER_00: and wanted neon pink and orange shoes.
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SPEAKER_00: And that basically was my turning of the corner.
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SPEAKER_00: I thought this is dumb.
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SPEAKER_00: It also kept me from having to buy team shoes.
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SPEAKER_00: They could just go out and buy whatever they wanted to.
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SPEAKER_00: So it actually saved me thousands of dollars as well.
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And I thought they're having more fun with this than me just
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holding on to this.
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SPEAKER_00: So it was the shoes just like it was with you.
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SPEAKER_01: But I will say the one, this is a high school thing.
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SPEAKER_01: I had noticed there were schools that started saying like,
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High Schoolers can sign out you don't have to ride the bus you
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don't have to show
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up to the JV game like that's a hill I would I will die on like
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we do stuff as a
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team as a program you ride the bus I don't care if your house
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is right next to the
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school we're playing you ride the bus you go to the JV game the
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JV players go to
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the varsity game I had parents just throwing a fit the first
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year I came in and
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SPEAKER_01: said that I couldn't believe it that that was the case and
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I said look like they're all in this program together if you
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want to play games
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without being a part of a program I sent them the link to the
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YMCA Rec League and I
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said you could sign up for this league and then you can show up
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whenever you want
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like that's one that I would not so I think there's good
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examples of things that
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SPEAKER_01: you're willing to sacrifice things you're not
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SPEAKER_00: I love practical suggestions.
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I love the practical exercises that kind of make you think
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through things as well
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SPEAKER_00: as your team thinking through things.
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SPEAKER_00: And you've included at least one of those in the book.
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SPEAKER_00: At the end, you have the team culture development plan.
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Can you talk about the practical design of that and how you've
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encoded that with their teams?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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And the reason I included that was I had a young man reach out
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to me on social
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SPEAKER_01: media and said,
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SPEAKER_01: hey,
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SPEAKER_01: can you mentor me through this season?
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and I found it interesting because he was a JV coach and I was
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kind of like why is
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the varsity coach not mentoring you you know like that should
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be your mentor if I
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said yeah so we talked on the phone and I asked him and he goes
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he doesn't help me
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at all and I'm realizing I think that does exist out there so
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there's people like
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that there's new coaches out there and you just don't know
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where to start so it's
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SPEAKER_01: 10 days of just
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SPEAKER_01: Here's what I would do to have this conversation with your team day one,
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SPEAKER_01: day two,
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SPEAKER_01: day three,
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SPEAKER_01: whether it's goal setting,
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SPEAKER_01: whether it's talking about how you handle defeat,
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SPEAKER_01: handle a victory,
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SPEAKER_01: and all those things.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's just a place to start.
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SPEAKER_01: I think a veteran coach might look at it and go,
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SPEAKER_01: No kidding,
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SPEAKER_01: we do all these things,
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but what I found super interesting was I shared this book with
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a head basketball
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SPEAKER_01: coach of a Division II college,
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SPEAKER_01: and I asked him,
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SPEAKER_01: I said,
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SPEAKER_01: I want to know,
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because it's written from a high school coach with high school
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coaches in mind,
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SPEAKER_01: does this work for you?
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And he texted back like three days later,
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and he said,
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dude,
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I loved your book.
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I'm going to use your team development plan this year and I was
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like no kidding and
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like I don't want to disbarge myself but at the same time I was
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like no kidding
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like so I do think there is this we kind of pass on the
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fundamentals of coaching I
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think you mentioned it earlier we pass on the team culture all
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that stuff and we
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SPEAKER_01: think about the advanced things the analytics and the drills but
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we sometimes forget like we have to plan out our team culture
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we have to plan out
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these conversations they don't just happen so it's a place to
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start your season but
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it's on you to finish your season reality is is that all of us
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do have a culture
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it's just that some of us have a well-planned culture and
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others of us are just
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winging it that's been the biggest thing that I when I work
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with with coaches and
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coaches young coaches who want to work their way up having them
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just simply write
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Things Like This Really Causes Them To Focus On The Why Of Okay
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So Why Do You Do
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This And The Things Like The Shoes Or Like The Ride In The Bus
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Those Kinds Of
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Things Come To The Surface But I Think A Lot Of Coaches Instead
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Go The Other
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SPEAKER_00: Direction And Just Grab On To A Lot Of Good Things
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And maybe they're good and maybe they're not But they haven't
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really thought of the
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SPEAKER_00: underlying reasons behind that thing This is almost,
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I don't know why this is like revolutionary But it's like start
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from the very
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beginning and put this down And then we'll get all of the extra
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stuff that
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SPEAKER_00: everybody sees But I think it's just,
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SPEAKER_00: it's more fun,
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it's more sexy I don't know what it is to start with those
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other things And to get
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SPEAKER_00: those other things before you really get the foundational stuff
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SPEAKER_01: But it's like any drill you do,
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SPEAKER_01: I'm assuming there's a reason you plan the drill for that day,
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whether it's the progression of your offense or defense or
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something your team
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SPEAKER_01: needed.
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SPEAKER_01: I see this as no different.
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SPEAKER_01: My team's in a funk.
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SPEAKER_01: They're all hanging their heads after misses, after mistakes.
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SPEAKER_01: They're just not handling challenges well.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, let's plan this out.
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Let's talk about how do you handle these setbacks and how is
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your mentality?
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SPEAKER_01: And we just hope
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It'll Fix Itself We'll Get There And It's Like No That's Just
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Not How It Works Like
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You Have To Plan These Things Out And Then Sometimes They Are
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Planned Out But
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They're So Advanced And There Are A Lot Of Like Reading Like
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I'm Going To Read This
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Article Or Something Like That It's Like That's Great And I
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Like That But You Need
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To Talk About You You Need To Talk About The Kids You Need To
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Have Vulnerable
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Conversations And I Think You Can Get That More By Just Being
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You Than Trying To
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SPEAKER_01: Find A PhD In Research You Know
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this could go on and on but I want people to stay curious
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enough to buy the book so
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first where's the best place for them to do that and then also
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can you tell them
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where they can connect with you and maybe either get in contact
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with you about
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SPEAKER_00: stuff or find some of the stuff that you're doing out there
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
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SPEAKER_01: So the book's on Amazon, and that's the point of sale.
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So you can get a Kindle paperback or hardcover copy and just
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search Care to Compete
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SPEAKER_01: Hunter Price.
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SPEAKER_01: My website is www.v3.com.
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V3 is Voice Vision Victory which is three things I think
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leaders have to do well
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and right now I'm in a really fun phase of planning out what's
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next here so we have
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this book I'm going to be speaking at the coaches clinic in
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Wisconsin a few
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SPEAKER_01: colleges a few high schools and just kind of starting that path so I'll
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if you need a speaker for a clinic no matter what sport I love
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to do that because
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it's really fun for me to do but we're also starting to develop
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so we talked about
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the leadership development plan like that for everyone so no
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matter what sport
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we're going to start developing workshops and coach clinics and
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things like that I
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have a team of some guys a guy that you know some friends of
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mine that are in the
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college ranks some college athletes and we're trying to put
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together this um
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I hope future of training coaches the right way so you can find
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it all on the
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