Friday, December 31, 2010

DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE?

One of the main keys to success is to know and understand your strengths and weaknesses, and to play within the framework of what you do well.  Came across a short article by Kevin Eastman that echoes this thought.

Whatever you are, that’s how your team has to play night in and night out in order to win games.  Every team has an identity that has been established based on that group of players that year.  If you have an established program, you may be fortunate to be that team every year.

With the Celtics, we are a defensive team.  Most of the time we’re a team that will win because of defense.  If our defense is what it should be and what we work on every day, then we will always be in the game regardless of how our offense is that night.  But we have found that if our defense is below our standards, we will often find ourselves in a game that’s tough for us to win.  Calling on our offense to bail us out is not something we want to rely on.

(Thanks Kevin Eastman)

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