kind of relates to what I wrote this morning
"Outside of whatever happens on the floor, you win some, you lose some, you miss shots, you turn the ball over, whatever happens, when you're talking about real life, this all translates to real life. Stuff happens in your family as a father, as a husband, you're the leader of your family, what do you do when adversity hits? Do you break, do you give up, do you quit, do you deal with it, you brush it off and keep going forward? That's what I try to tell our guys. Not that you don't deal with adverse situations. Deal with, it learn from it. Some are more painful than others, but let's make the necessary adjustments, deal with what we need to deal with and let's move forward. Because we don't have a lot of time to make excuses.
The truth of the matter--this is what I really tell them--this is only a sport. There's real life. Somebody didn't wake up this morning. So now, let's put this in perspective of what it really is: It's just a sport. There's a lot of entertainment and obviously it's at a high level and everybody wants to win and be successful, but man, I'm not losing a lot of sleep over you missing ten shots in a game if somebody lost their life. That's the big picture."
"Outside of whatever happens on the floor, you win some, you lose some, you miss shots, you turn the ball over, whatever happens, when you're talking about real life, this all translates to real life. Stuff happens in your family as a father, as a husband, you're the leader of your family, what do you do when adversity hits? Do you break, do you give up, do you quit, do you deal with it, you brush it off and keep going forward? That's what I try to tell our guys. Not that you don't deal with adverse situations. Deal with, it learn from it. Some are more painful than others, but let's make the necessary adjustments, deal with what we need to deal with and let's move forward. Because we don't have a lot of time to make excuses.
The truth of the matter--this is what I really tell them--this is only a sport. There's real life. Somebody didn't wake up this morning. So now, let's put this in perspective of what it really is: It's just a sport. There's a lot of entertainment and obviously it's at a high level and everybody wants to win and be successful, but man, I'm not losing a lot of sleep over you missing ten shots in a game if somebody lost their life. That's the big picture."
