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People say that defense wins basketball games but I disagree. On the real, if you don’t score points you won’t win. In the NBA, the athletes are so athletic, so talented that you have to have a strategy for getting around guys, isolating situations that present an advantage. When the Denver Nuggets play the Lakers, …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills
I used to want a vertical leap like Dee Brown’s. Oh wait, who remembers him? Seriously, I wanted a vertical like Giannis Antetokounmpo. I wanted to jump high, put plainly, to dunk with ease, to bounce off the bus ride. I wanted to have the kind of athleticism that responds on command whether you’ve been …
Category: Character
Want to know why finding your niche is so hard? It’s because whatever it is you’re supposed to do is hidden in a stack of needles. The old simile comparison of a search for a particular item being like “looking for a needle in a haystack” gives you the advantage of distinction. Hay straw is …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, For Further Study, Today's Post
“I see you ridin’ around town with the girl I love and I’m like, ‘Forget You’…” Man I laughed when I heard this jam today. And I won’t lie, if profanity bothers you, stick to the edited version. But besides being a comical rendition in the spirit of 60s Motown, this song by Cee Lo …
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Today's Post
If you had something important to say, something that would warn others of impending danger would you say it? What if you could be sure your audience would rebuke you? What if you could be certain that your message was true but it was literally the kind of thing that you could be sure would …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Today's Post
Oneness is a mystery, unity an enigma. The concept is elementary. The application near impossible. Even teams that win championships seldom achieve unity, though they brag as if they have when what they’ve actually done is manipulate rosters and pay obscene amounts of money to guys motivated to make even more money. True oneness is …
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Team, Today's Post
Now that Brett Favre is hurt, Kobe is entering the latter stages of his career and Tiger’s gaze no longer intimidates golfers worldwide it’s appropriate to ask, “What’s next?” What is the next step after you’ve been defined by one thing for so long? How do you move onto equally valuable pursuits that reproduce a …
Category: Character, Play, Skills, Today's Post
