{"id":97,"date":"2013-11-20T06:20:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/?p=97"},"modified":"2013-11-20T06:20:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:20:44","slug":"day-2-developing-a-hard-working-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/day-2-developing-a-hard-working-team","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 &#8211; Developing a &#8220;Hard Working&#8221; Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After our first practice, it&#8217;s clear that players don&#8217;t understand what &#8220;hard working&#8221; means. \u00a0I think many of them are trying. \u00a0But they don&#8217;t know what it takes yet.<\/p>\n<p>To me, &#8220;hard working&#8221; is a skill and a value that you must teach, develop, and continually refine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s what I did on our second day of practice and a possible idea on how you can develop &#8220;hard working&#8221; players&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On our second day of practice, I explained to our players that I was not satisfied with our effort from the previous day. \u00a0And we need to better understand and improve our first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/new-core-values-for-our-201314-basketball-season\/\">core value \/ team characteristic<\/a> (&#8220;Hard Working&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>I handed all of them a printout of this document &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Core-value-1-hard-working.doc\">Core value 1 &#8211; hard working.doc<\/a>. \u00a0I then read the first two sections and really emphasized what we needed to do in practice. I then told them they needed to read and study the printout after practice.<\/p>\n<p>We definitely had a better practice yesterday. \u00a0We&#8217;ll see how things go from here and how many of them read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Core-value-1-hard-working.doc\">Hard Working Printout<\/a> (I&#8217;ll quiz them today).<\/p>\n<p>There might be typos in the document but feel free to take it and use it yourself. \u00a0I hope this helps you in some way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After our first practice, it&#8217;s clear that players don&#8217;t understand what &#8220;hard working&#8221; means. \u00a0I think many of them are trying. \u00a0But they don&#8217;t know what it takes yet. To me, &#8220;hard working&#8221; is a skill and a value that you must teach, develop, and continually refine&#8230; So here&#8217;s what I did on our second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-97","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-201314-sophomore-season","7":"category-motivation","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/haefner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}