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<blockquote data-quote="Illiini" data-source="post: 1345687" data-attributes="member: 625513"><p>Go down to Blockbuster, rent a tape of <em>Miracle</em> and put it in the VCR. The watch how Herb Brooks turned a bunch of college stars who couldn't play <em>together</em> into a team that won the Olympics against the Russians...the Red Army "amateurs."</p><p></p><p>Two things stand out for me. One is how Brooks worked on conditioning. The other is how he put the team in losing positions several times. </p><p></p><p>I saw Brooks' method being used on a high school level on sport-like team activity that felt entitled because they had won a championship the two preceding years. Spend all day practicing out in the cold, morning and afternoon, with only a few minutes for dinner before "warmups" before the event and there was no way that group was going to win. It was by design. They learned they weren't invincible. </p><p></p><p>Why do you think Underwood put this game together as fast as he did? He wanted to slap these kids up against the side of the head that talent was going to take them only so far...just far enough to get their derrieres handed to them by a team that they should have routed. Underwood did it with a game that "didn't count." Better this week than next. </p><p></p><p>I say all that from only watching the press conference, and not a minute of the game. But yeah, find a way to watch the movie, even if you don't have a VCR.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Illiini, post: 1345687, member: 625513"] Go down to Blockbuster, rent a tape of [I]Miracle[/I] and put it in the VCR. The watch how Herb Brooks turned a bunch of college stars who couldn't play [I]together[/I] into a team that won the Olympics against the Russians...the Red Army "amateurs." Two things stand out for me. One is how Brooks worked on conditioning. The other is how he put the team in losing positions several times. I saw Brooks' method being used on a high school level on sport-like team activity that felt entitled because they had won a championship the two preceding years. Spend all day practicing out in the cold, morning and afternoon, with only a few minutes for dinner before "warmups" before the event and there was no way that group was going to win. It was by design. They learned they weren't invincible. Why do you think Underwood put this game together as fast as he did? He wanted to slap these kids up against the side of the head that talent was going to take them only so far...just far enough to get their derrieres handed to them by a team that they should have routed. Underwood did it with a game that "didn't count." Better this week than next. I say all that from only watching the press conference, and not a minute of the game. But yeah, find a way to watch the movie, even if you don't have a VCR. [/QUOTE]
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