Brian Merritt
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@CoachBMerritt
Mr.Everything. Vast background in basketball from events to player development. Learned from some of the best to ever do it. Always evolving and adapting.
Tom Brady: “You need coaches that push you outside your comfort zone because that’s how you grow and that’s how you develop self confidence and self esteem. They push you to deal with failure.”
33 INCHES OF SNOW! ❄️ Providence, Rhode Island, just had their all-time greatest snowstorm on record with 33" so far, beating out the Blizzard of '78. Montauk Point on Long Island had hurricane-force wind gusts of 84 mph too! These are new pictures today from the historic Northeast #Blizzard. #RhodeIsland
Statement from NCAA senior vice president of Basketball Dan Gavitt about collegiate eligibility.
Billy Donovan shares a lesson that changed how his players thought about winning. At Florida, he had a manager track how long the ball was in each player's hands during a game. He asked one of his starters: "How many minutes do you think you had the ball in your hands for the game?" The player said 15 minutes when he had played 30. The real numbers? "A backcourt player, for the most part, is probably 92% of the game gonna be played without the ball in their hands. A frontcourt player - 95% of their minutes is gonna be played without the ball in their hands." Think about that. You're playing without the ball almost the entire game. "It's amazing to me how many players focus on points, points, points. That's what goes on ESPN. That's what gets the highlights." "But if you're gonna strictly talk about winning and you're really driven and motivated by winning and competing and being a good teammate, you have to look at the fact is -- what am I doing with my 92, 93, 94, 95%?" "Am I screening? Am I running the floor? Am I on the floor for loose basketballs? Am I rebounding? Am I taking a charge?" "There's so many ways to impact the game with the amount of time you're on the floor when the ball's not in your hands." This is what separates good players from winning players. You control how you show up. You control your attitude. You control your effort. Great teammates master what they do when no one's watching - and when the ball isn't in their hands. Winning isn't about the glamour. It's about the 95%. (🎥@Coaching_U ) (🎥@brendansuhr)
@FlBarb4Life @Coolness941 Especially when she wore that long Wizards dress at the 2003 NBA All-Star Game, Jordan's last.
