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The set-up move isn’t the move you’re using to exploit your opponent. It’s the move you use to create an opportunity to exploit your opponent. The shot-fake, the inside-out dribble, the crossover-double-crossover, etc. are those types of moves. The greats master the set-up moves because they lengthen your career long after your athleticism is in …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Today's Post
There’s still good NBA playoff basketball being played. I should be watching. But I don’t care – not since the Lakers were swept last week by Dallas. This was a difficult admission to realize I’m still a bit of a sore loser. But what’s comical is that the guy people love to hate, Kobe Bryant …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Today's Post
Identity is non-negotiable truth about none other than yourself. That might be why names are so important. People legally change their names from Buford to Antonio but the identity remains. When the Lakers were eliminated from the 2011 NBA Playoffs on Sunday most people maligned them because they felt the Laker identity had been breached. …
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Category: Character, Skills, Today's Post
The setting was Mimi’s Cafe on a Friday morning around 10 a.m. when I heard three people discussing politics, the housing market and the president of the United States, Barrack Obama. Their exchange took about 10-15 minutes total but I was ready to puke by minute 3. The woman who initiated their conversation mentioned the …
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Category: Skills, Today's Post
When the basketball season ended this year, I experienced legitimate grief. I am currently a high school boys basketball coach who used to be a girls high school basketball coach. I coach in the summers doing camps. I coach privately. Coaching has become more being than doing. But this year I lost my entire team …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Team, Today's Post
We all do it sometimes. Kobe Bryant sprained his ankle on Saturday, March 12, 2011 against the Dallas Mavericks in a game that mattered. Lakers needed the win against a team they just happen to be chasing in the Western Conference standings. And you knew the injury was significant because Bryant left the bench and …
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Category: Character, Team, Today's Post
That’s what they call Phillips Arena apparently, home of the Atlanta Hawks. The Lakers moved to 8-0 on the road tonight with the gold clad fan club raising an absolute raucous in a building two time zones away from Downtown Los Angeles. And this is no phenomenon if you follow the Lake Show, though I’ve …
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Category: Play, Today's Post
