Health & Fitness
Communicating Better
How you communicate and relate with people determines how people will 'see' you. Basketball is our laboratory to make our students better people.
Cross-posted from Melrosegirlsbasketball.com/blog
Certainly communication has an important role both offensively and defensively. But the most important communication involves how we communicate with each other off the court.
General George Patton wrote to his son in 1943, “self-confidence is the surest way of obtaining what you want. If you know in your own heart you are going to be something, you will be it.”
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Coach Bob Starkey writes about what i’ll call communication inputs from John Maxwell:
Integrity – did I do my best?
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Relevance – did I understand and relate?
Value – did I add value?
Application – did I give people a game plan?
Change – did I make a difference?
The basketball court represents a symbol about how you live your life. How you step on the court reflects how you live your life. You can’t be selfish on the court and unselfish off the court. Great effort on the court doesn’t match laziness in the classroom. Our job is to help you become the best person you can be, which translates into how you play.
Life demands physical, mental (knowledge and preparation), emotional (attitude), and spiritual (something greater than yourself) inputs. A student’s ‘job’ is not only to be receptive to information, but to QUESTION the validity of that information. What happened, when, how, where, and why? Coaches are basketball students, too.
For example, last night in Miami the Miami Heat defeated the Celtics to advance to the NBA Finals (what, when, and where). The Heat pulled away from the Celtics in the fourth period with superior rebounding and penetration to the basket (how). The Celtics didn’t block out and ran out of gas, allowing dribble penetration to the rim from Lebron James, Mario Chalmers, and Dwayne Wade. The return of Chris Bosh with an outstanding shooting night brought Kevin Garnett away from the basket opening up the lane for the Heat (why).
Studying is a student’s ‘work’. Play is a child’s ‘work’. But how you relate to your family, your teammates, and your community determines how people will ‘see’ you. We are here to help.
