He who does not play the big "d" sits on the little "b" is really how the expression goes. It was one of the sayings of my favorite coach of all time, the late Tony Archibald
I was so fired up to stop the other guy, that alas I was never an offensive threat in basketball, the game I love.
It started early on when as an "all field no stick" little league first baseman for the Poland Fireman, I was passed over when it game time to pick the All Star team.
But, I have always subscribed to the theory, if the other team doesn't score you will never lose!
Team defense is as much fun as team scoring IMO. When I coach basketball I subscibe to the Bobby Knight school "Pressure the Ball" So many good things happen with this simple first rule of defense. As more and more kids fall in love with "shooting the three," they become less proficient in handling the ball and are subject to being pressured!
In offense, we coaches often talk about scoring options, and rightly so! I know there are certain players I want taking shots. The more legitimate scoring options a team has, the more points they may score; its that simple. Granted, it takes a team for those scoring options to function.
But defense only has one option. Every player must work together to accomplish the result of preventing the other team from scoring. Defense is the ultimate team experience. If one player doesn't play defense, the whole system fails. Hence the expression "play d or sit on the b"
How I miss getting to teach this game!
Bigg Daddy D
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
"D" is for different
Ok, I'll admit it, writing and I are not best friends. In fact, the thought that I am a blogger is making me laugh in my IC Light.
I'm different. I have a passion for disparate things. My blog is an invitation for readers to enter the world of a pastor/coach/musician/fisherman/frustrated golfer/unhandy-man...
By reading my Blog you will become familiar with an old guy's love of metalcore.
By reading my Blog you will be invited into a world of theology and coach speak.
By reading my Blog you will enter the mind of what makes "different" so much fun.
Two things you can count on. My posts will be relatively brief, which in and of itself is laughable, considering my preaching is considered verbose and too long...
And, my grammar and syntax will be shoddy at best, and littered with these (.....) My daughter knows what they're called....
Each post will be a rhapsody on the letter "D...." The American Heritage Dictionary defines a rhapsody as an "exalted or excessively enthusiastic expression of feeling in speech or writing.
"Different" is not only fun it is thought provoking. I've become dangerously close to not thinking enough. When your passions lie in the center of life's political and theological spectrums, one can become lazy. You know, "if you don't stand for something then you will fall for anything." The things I stand for, I can't stand... for! The apostle Paul stated it something like this...The good I want to do I don't do, and the things a I don't want to do I end up doing! It's what drove him to total reliance on the grace of God! Different does not insist on being right... or wrong. It's just different.
God is different, not that much different than you and me..... but really different. And I believe that "different", like love, makes the world go around.
I'm different. I have a passion for disparate things. My blog is an invitation for readers to enter the world of a pastor/coach/musician/fisherman/frustrated golfer/unhandy-man...
By reading my Blog you will become familiar with an old guy's love of metalcore.
By reading my Blog you will be invited into a world of theology and coach speak.
By reading my Blog you will enter the mind of what makes "different" so much fun.
Two things you can count on. My posts will be relatively brief, which in and of itself is laughable, considering my preaching is considered verbose and too long...
And, my grammar and syntax will be shoddy at best, and littered with these (.....) My daughter knows what they're called....
Each post will be a rhapsody on the letter "D...." The American Heritage Dictionary defines a rhapsody as an "exalted or excessively enthusiastic expression of feeling in speech or writing.
"Different" is not only fun it is thought provoking. I've become dangerously close to not thinking enough. When your passions lie in the center of life's political and theological spectrums, one can become lazy. You know, "if you don't stand for something then you will fall for anything." The things I stand for, I can't stand... for! The apostle Paul stated it something like this...The good I want to do I don't do, and the things a I don't want to do I end up doing! It's what drove him to total reliance on the grace of God! Different does not insist on being right... or wrong. It's just different.
God is different, not that much different than you and me..... but really different. And I believe that "different", like love, makes the world go around.
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