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<blockquote data-quote="Roundball Sage" data-source="post: 1618946" data-attributes="member: 748116"><p>Issue One: Coach Underwood and the North Side school game plan and execution. He’s been at this coaching thing a long time. For whatever reason, he chose to go with (and stay with) the approach he did. Something in his past experience must have motivated that. The good news is that he seems willing to change and learn from this (and other) experiences going forward. There would be a bigger problem if he seemed inflexible.</p><p></p><p>Issue Two: The Team coming out so flat. Human behavior rears its head again. Nobody’s been able to figure that one out yet. But there were warning signs during the season that this might happen. Some games The Beloved just didn’t show up. Or ended up lucky to pull it out at the end. But they looked so good at other times that we wanted to dismiss those flat performances as not being a threat when the Dance came along. Everybody always gets up for the Dance, right? </p><p></p><p>Motivation can sometimes be applied from the outside but the best motivator of all always comes from within. Did anyone ever have to tell Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson or guys at that level to “get motivated”. Those guys always hit the floor with fire in their eyes and energy pouring out of their fingers and toes. Ayo seems to have that streak in him. His occasional off-game didn’t seem to come from lack of effort.</p><p></p><p>If Coach Underwood or anybody else can figure out how to trigger that inside motivation switch-thing in a person then he’ll change the world on top of winning a whole lot of basketball games.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roundball Sage, post: 1618946, member: 748116"] Issue One: Coach Underwood and the North Side school game plan and execution. He’s been at this coaching thing a long time. For whatever reason, he chose to go with (and stay with) the approach he did. Something in his past experience must have motivated that. The good news is that he seems willing to change and learn from this (and other) experiences going forward. There would be a bigger problem if he seemed inflexible. Issue Two: The Team coming out so flat. Human behavior rears its head again. Nobody’s been able to figure that one out yet. But there were warning signs during the season that this might happen. Some games The Beloved just didn’t show up. Or ended up lucky to pull it out at the end. But they looked so good at other times that we wanted to dismiss those flat performances as not being a threat when the Dance came along. Everybody always gets up for the Dance, right? Motivation can sometimes be applied from the outside but the best motivator of all always comes from within. Did anyone ever have to tell Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson or guys at that level to “get motivated”. Those guys always hit the floor with fire in their eyes and energy pouring out of their fingers and toes. Ayo seems to have that streak in him. His occasional off-game didn’t seem to come from lack of effort. If Coach Underwood or anybody else can figure out how to trigger that inside motivation switch-thing in a person then he’ll change the world on top of winning a whole lot of basketball games. [/QUOTE]
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