{"id":37,"date":"2008-08-07T13:21:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T18:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/what-china-can-teach-you-about-real-basketball-teamwork\/"},"modified":"2008-08-07T13:21:41","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T18:21:41","slug":"what-china-can-teach-you-about-real-basketball-teamwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/what-china-can-teach-you-about-real-basketball-teamwork\/","title":{"rendered":"What China Can Teach You About Real Basketball Teamwork"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked up something interesting while watching the USA Basketball Road To Redemption<\/a> TV series.\u00a0 (If you\u2019re not watching it, the program is really good. It\u2019s on NBA TV and also the web link above.)<\/p>\n

In China, basketball isn’t viewed as a sport that you wanted to gain glory in.\u00a0 Instead basketball is more of a tool to teach teamwork, unselfishness, and the value of working together.<\/p>\n

In fact, if a player on a national team scores 25 points in a game, it\u2019s not considered a big accomplishment.\u00a0 It would actually cause the coaches to call a team meeting and it would be crisis time. Because the player would look like someone who was seeking headlines and trying to break out of the collective.<\/p>\n

This is an excellent reminder of what’s truly important.\u00a0 As a coach, you should think the same way…\u00a0 Basketball is a tool to teach teamwork, unselfishness, and the value of working together.<\/p>\n

When you think about it, basketball is an amazing tool and opportunity for us to teach kids about teamwork and how to be successful in life.\u00a0 Don’t lose sight of what’s important!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up something interesting while watching the USA Basketball Road To Redemption TV series.\u00a0 (If you\u2019re not watching it, the program is really good. It\u2019s on NBA TV and also the web link above.) In China, basketball isn’t viewed as a sport that you wanted to gain glory in.\u00a0 Instead basketball is more of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}