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Unconditionally Affected - Paige Bueckers
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This interview makes me appreciate Paige even more.
RockyMTblue2
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I sampled it early today. As a retired lawyer I found it hard to deal with the structure the two had going. Too Socratic for me.
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Paige never ceases to amaze me as a person beyond the player!
She is so far above the common "noise" that is so rare in sports today!
Most players, in any sport today
celebrate the "ME" instead of the "WE"!
Remember the saying, "act like you've been there before!"
The NON-REACTION becomes the ACTION!
A story from my coaching Wrestling at ELHS here in CT.
I had a wrestler Erick Jenkins in the Class M finals vs a Killingly wrestler. Before the finals I overheard the opponent's father telling the Killingly crowd what his son was going to do to Erick in the Finals! I told Erick about it and he was going to show the Father up at the end of the match, and I said no, when you get your hand raised just look at the Father and don't do anything else! Erick won 15-3 (the 3 points were escapes Erick gave him to take him down again)!
The father walked out as Erick stared at him!
As Erick came over to me for a hug he said, "thanks coach that was way cooler!"
Always celebrate the WE!
She is so far above the common "noise" that is so rare in sports today!
Most players, in any sport today
celebrate the "ME" instead of the "WE"!
Remember the saying, "act like you've been there before!"
The NON-REACTION becomes the ACTION!
A story from my coaching Wrestling at ELHS here in CT.
I had a wrestler Erick Jenkins in the Class M finals vs a Killingly wrestler. Before the finals I overheard the opponent's father telling the Killingly crowd what his son was going to do to Erick in the Finals! I told Erick about it and he was going to show the Father up at the end of the match, and I said no, when you get your hand raised just look at the Father and don't do anything else! Erick won 15-3 (the 3 points were escapes Erick gave him to take him down again)!
The father walked out as Erick stared at him!
As Erick came over to me for a hug he said, "thanks coach that was way cooler!"
Always celebrate the WE!
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Who is the guy she's talking to? A sports psychologist for the team? Her therapist?
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Brett Ledbetter…not a therapist, but a self proclaimed ‘thinking partner for high performance’. Personally, I found this to be incredibly creepy.
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The interviewer, Brett Ledbetter, has perfected a technique that is similar to the Socratic method where in one-on-one interviews (and sometimes more than one) he asks questions of the interviewee from the sports world trying to challenge some of their assumptions and ideas instead of directly providing answers. He had Geno and Anson Dorrance (the two winningest college coaches, one in basketball and the other in soccer at UNC), for example, in a series of interviews that are worth pulling up on YouTube asking open questions like what motivates winning and how do you sustain it contrasting and finding similarities of both coaches.
Not everyone may like his method of getting to "now you know the rest of the story" but many find it fascinating. I found the interview with Paige to be heart-wrenching hearing of the challenges she faced growing up and throughout her basketball journey. To me it showed the elements that make a great leader she is and someone I hope remains in women's sports for a long time to come - and when her basketball playing days are over to take on the leadership role in the WNBA.
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Why? Paige had to okay it.