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“The pursuit of being great fundamentally is never ending,” Mark Daigneault Fundamentals don’t require talent but they do require a relentless commitment to the process.

Competitive character is not “wanting to win.” Everybody wants to win. It’s whether your habits get sharper when you’re frustrated. Whether you can take hard coaching without making it personal. Whether you stop negotiating with the standard the second it gets uncomfortable. Pressure doesn’t build character. It audits it.

Great day recognizing some Elite Competitors!

Danny Hurley’s Approach “Their son has to work harder, he has to do more, he has to earn his role. We’ve got a real old school culture here of accountability. The expectations of effort. The focus on winning and we over me” (Via @thewinningdiff1 🎥)

Championships may not always be possible, but taking a championship approach is.

"Bad habits have a cost. Good habits have a price. Either way you have to pay. The meaningful things- we pay for before. The foolish things- we pay for after." Winners pay upfront (sacrifice, effort, discipline). Everyone else pays later (regret). That’s the difference.

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Dusty May shares a must-listen message on the process and staying focused when success starts coming. "Let's not look at the records. Let's not look at anything else. Let's continue to get better." "If we're focused on our processes, we're gonna look up in a couple weeks and say, 'Damn, man, I like where we are.'" Focus on the systems and habits that lead to excellence, not just the end result. That's how it works. Trust the process, stack the days, and the results show up. Then he warned them about what's coming: "We're gonna be told how great we are a lot going forward." "But just know all that stuff is distracting from what we need to do and that's get better and continue figuring some things out." Praise is a distraction if you let it be. It's going to feel good, but it's going to pull you away from the work. The best teams don't get caught up in the noise - good or bad. They block out the distractions. Focus on the process. (🎥 Michigan Basketball)

THE NUMBERS ARE BLACK AND WHITE : From 6 feet - 25 feet players shoot ~ the same FG%. This is true from Varsity level HS to the NBA. Aside from EOC/EOG situations, there is no reason to shoot mid range shots, for MOST players. You can't sustainably win basketball games unless your EFG% is > than your opponents EFG%. 'Your culture is the sum of what you emphasize and what you tolerate.' SHOT QUALITY IS IN OUR CONTROL. 👇🏼 - 3PA vs Mid range effiency pie chart (NBA) - PPP in the NBA - PPP in HS @FastModel @TDataScience

"Building confidence...requires you to fail. There's going to be a good balance of failure and success and that's how you build toughness - the resilience of getting through something hard."

Mind Candy - for players!! And Coaches! ⁦@USABYouth⁩

Dan Hurley shares why his players accept hard coaching and it comes down to one thing. "You invest every second that you can in them. On the court and off the court. You just pour everything you have into them. Your family is intertwined with your program." "I think players sense that. They feel that." Then he explained why his players accept being pushed: "My players will accept the hard coaching from me and our staff because they know how much we love them." "They know how much we're trying to prepare them, toughen them up, teach them, help them grow as men, develop new skills quickly - all those things that are gonna add value to their lives." People know when you invest and you care. "We're relentless for them. We're literally giving everything we got to them while they're on campus." The formula: Invest and care first then balance that with pushing them forward. Then he got honest: "I wouldn't wanna play for me for 10 years. I wouldn't wanna play for this staff for 8, 10, 12, 15 years. We go hard for these guys while they're on campus and that's why you see the bond the way it is." The window may be short, but the impact lasts forever. Players don't accept hard coaching because you demand it. They accept it because they know you love them. (🎥 March Madness)

Geno Auriemma shares how he explains success to his players and why showing up isn't enough. "If you go to class and you do average work, you're gonna get a C. That's why it's called average." "If you want a B, you have to do more work. If you want an A, you have to do even more work and you have to give up stuff." You get what you earn in life. "You have to sacrifice. Maybe you can't do all the things that everybody else does." It means if you want more then you have to be willing to do more. "If you're just happy getting Bs all your life, there's nothing wrong with that either. But you're never gonna get the satisfaction of what it feels like to get an A." Then he connected it to basketball: "If you just wanna be average, then you do average work. If you wanna be a little bit above average then you do a little more work." "If you wanna get As in basketball, then you gotta do stuff that other people aren't willing to do - especially if you have the talent like we do. We have talent." It means bring a mindset of excellence to everything that you do. Excellence isn't the goal - it's the standard you set. Then he called out the entitlement problem: "Some of these younger guys coming out of high school, man, they wanna show up and go, 'I'm here. Where's my 3.7?'" "Like my father used to say, 'I got your 3.7 right here.'" Showing up doesn't earn you anything. Doing the work does. You get the grade you earn - in school, in basketball, and in life. It's easy to be average...successful people look to compete in everything they do. (🎥UCTV Sports )

Everybody wants discipline… until discipline gets loud.
Everybody wants toughness… until toughness gets uncomfortable. Hard coaching isn’t abuse.
Hard coaching is correction.
Hard coaching is standards.
Hard coaching is loving a kid enough not to let him stay average. If a coach is demanding effort, detail, toughness, and accountability bothers you… that probably says more about today’s culture than it does the coach.

How much we care about someone should not keep us from telling them the truth. It should be the reason we do. Speak honestly from a position of love

UCONN HC Dan Hurley - Leadership & Culture - "Leadership and culture have never been more important." - "Your culture better be on point, your leadership better be on point, you better be the driving force behind your organization every day that you step foot in to that building. And you better set the tone. You better be a tone setter every single day of what you want to reflect in your culture." - "I keep my players happy because they know that there is very few places in the country, if any, where they're going to get the same level of commitment in terms of time & effort that's going to be in to their career, skill development & personal development." - "And they know that every day that they're on campus in Storrs CT... That full staff is in the office and we're working towards making them better. I'm not out playing golf in June... I'm in the gym with them, I'm in the weight room with them, I'm in the office with them." - "I want my players to feel like they're not going to get better service than they're going to get from our staff. And they literally see a person that is trying to kill themselves on the job to help them reach their dreams and goals."

“We have this culture of playing incredibly hard. We never lose because of lack of effort,” -Dan Hurley The standard is simple: compete the right way, play with relentless effort, and never let quitting become part of your culture.

Serve first. Win later. Most people want it the other way around. “Your job is not to be here for yourself. It is to be here for everybody else.” - Ben McCollum GOLD 🥇