*Adapted from my basketball blog. All opinions expressed in the blog are solely my own. The blog is not an official publication of any Melrose organization.
"How do you plan to impact winning?" Three elements that get you and keep you on the floor include:
- Making everyone around you better.
- Earning the trust of coaches (perhaps first in importance)
- Making plays..."chase perfection and find excellence"
Develop your plan now in the offseason. "Control what you can control." Understand "what is my varsity skill?"
Make yourself better (become your own coach)
- Build skill at your position (attack, passing, defense, block, serve)
- Play a lot
- Individual strength and conditioning
- Study the game (video, clinics, other reading)...study (YouTube) some of the elite players in Melrose history (Hannah Brickley, Gia Vlajkovic, Elena Soukos, Brooke Bell, Sarah McGowan, Jen Cain
Make positive plays (efficiently)
- Get scores (what are ways to score' - e.g. smash, cut shot, tips, blocks, serves to vulnerable areas)
- Assist
- Get stops - dig, block
- Communicate
Avoid negative plays (the mental game)
- Lower quality attacks (every pass cannot be attacked)
- Mental and physical mistakes on defense
- Lack of communication
- Everyone will shank an occasional ball. Top players do it less.
Make players around you better
- Leadership
- Communication
- Work out with teammates (skill building)
- Strength and conditioning
- Hustle is contagious
1. Prepare your plan.
2. Do the work.
3. Review your progress.
4. Repeat.
Specific Recommendations:
- Find a mentor.
- "Winners are trackers."
- Use constraints. Seek personal bests setting standards and limitations such as time.
- Track strength and conditioning.
- Mindfulness to improve focus
- Engage AI (ChatGPT, Claude.ai, or DeepSeek) for ideas
Lagniappe. "Change happens only when you’re willing to think independently, when you do what nobody else is doing, and risk looking like a fool because of it." - "Clear Thinking" by Shane Parrish
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