Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Jack Fertig with a pair of interesting columns

Jack Fertig offers a pair of columns as he has returned from the club basketball tournament centrals -- Las Vegas and southern California -- with more grist for the mill.

Go here and here.

By the way, here is Jack's personal site where you can read about his college coaching background and also order his books. As for the latter, here's one entry from "Life's A Joke"
Search for the positives

On many teams, lack of confidence by certain players is not something you have to worry about. On almost every team, there are guys who, if you bought them for what they are worth and sold them for what they thought they were worth, you could erase the national deficit. We had one such player on our team at USC. He would never admit to a mistake and was one of the most difficult guys to coach.

One day he came up to me and complained that the coaching staff was constantly on his case and that we never complimented him. Wasn't there anything he was doing well?

I looked at him, searched for a while and finally said, "You're the best at creating rebounds."

Unfortunately, it was the truth.

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