Twenty-Five
Little Things to Remember
From
Pete Carril's "The Smart take from the strong"
1.
Every little thing counts. If not why do it? 2.
When closely guarded, do not go towards the ball. Go back-door. 3.
Whenever you cut, look for the return pass. 4.
When you commit to a cut (or backdoor) do not stop and do not come back to the
ball. 5.
Bad shooters are always open. 6.
On offence move the defence. 7.
Putting defensive pressure on the ball makes it harder for the other team to run
an offence and gives your team a better chance to defend. 8.
In a zone or any defence, when their five men guard your three men, look to throw
cross court passes. 9.
Watch the man in front of you. he shows you what to do. 10.
Keep your dribble. Use it when you are going to do something useful. 11.
A pass is not a pass when it is made after you've tried to something else. 12.
A good player knows what he is good at. He also knows what he is not good at and
only does the former. 13.
You want to be good at those things that happen a lot. 14.
When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind. 15.
Defence involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence. 16.
If your teammate does not pass you the ball when your open and does not say anything,
then he did not see you. If he says "Im sorry," he saw you and did not
want to throw you the ball 17.
In trying to learn to do a specific thing, the specific thing is what you must
practice. There is little transfer of learning. 18.
Whatever you are doing is the most important thing that your doing while your
doing it. 19.
Anyone can be average. 20.
Being punctual is good in itself. However, what is more important is that your
punctuality tells your teammates what you think of them. 21.
Hardly any players play to lose. Only a few play to win. 22.
I like passers. They can see everything. 23.
The way you think affects what you see and do. 24.
Rarely does a person who competes with his head as well as his body come out second.
That was said even before Coach Vince Lombardi by the Greeks and Romans and probably
by the Chinese. 25.
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is
from the nearest railroad tracks.
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