JIM BOONE 🏀
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Top 5 Winningest coaches, over 600 Wins, 2 Final Fours, 6 Sweet 16’s, unprecedented 4 schools to NCAA Tournament. DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS! #TGHT #BBBD
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“I’ve never coached a good 3:30 guy. Individual development happens when guys spend time on the court outside of Team Practice. You don’t win Championships with 3:30 guys.”
~ Chris Beard
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“You put pressure on yourself when you’re focused on the outcome, not the process. Focus on what it takes to win, and enjoy winning, that’s what I’m talking about…not the pressure to win, not the outcome. Focus on the Process.”
~ Nick Saban
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“You give me 5 tough kids that will defend with purpose and we’ll figure it out...The Game Honors Toughness!”
~ Ed Cooley, Providence
#TGHT
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Coach Bob Knight often said, “The war is won before it is fought,” meaning that preparation will likely determine the outcome of the game.
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Little things make Difference between Good & Great Teams: Quiet Bench, Mental lapse, less than great attitude, tossing a towel, not accepting a hand coming out of game, bad pre-game warm-up, neg body language, not giving ball properly to official, back-up player jacking around!
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“You cannot Win before you eliminate Losing...those things that cause you to lose:
1) Bad Shots
2) Turnovers, cannot turn it over and win...cannot!
3) Opponents second shot opportunities
4) Fastbreak Layups
5) Uncontested Shots and Layups
6) Fouling”
~ Coach Bob Knight
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“You’re Either Coaching It or Allowing It to Happen.”
Discipline is not just focusing on negative behavior. Discipline requires encouragement. Discipline requires support.
~ Mike Leach
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“Bad Shooters are always open, it’s called Scouting...don’t take the shot the Defense wants us to take, work to get the shot we want, it’s called discipline.” ~ Don Meyer
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MATT FARRELL: Fresh Year - 4 min per game, Soph Year - 13 mpg and 2.6 ppg, Now - NBA Prospect.
#Patience
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“If you lock down Defensively, you can withstand an offensive draught…being attentive the entire possession…Defense will keep you in the games.”
~ Coach Tony Bennett on Defense
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A Coach Led vs Player Led Team: Shared by
@SethOnHoops
Recent Illini Practice, Ayo Dosunmu dove on floor for loose ball, between two freshmen & tipped ahead to teammate for the score. He then told the two freshmen, “You want to play here...you dive on the floor for loose balls.”
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“All the successful teams I’ve ever seen have three characteristics: They play unselfish, they play together, and they play hard.”
~ Larry Brown
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Coaching 101:
“When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I’ll like it or not…But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.”
~ Colin Powell
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“In 19 years John Stockton never once lost a suicide (Sprinting)drill in practice. Well, there was one day. He was sick. But he still ran it” ~ Jerry Sloan
@hoopcoach
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“To have an Elite Program, Everybody in the Building must be pulling in the same direction, from the administration to the custodial staff....everyone must be onboard.”
~ Coach Brad Stevens
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Rick Majerus, the Three most important Stats in Basketball:
1) Defensive FG%, must Challenge all Shots
2) Defensive Rebounding, must be an emphasis
3) Shot Selection and Allocation, best players must get most shots.
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“Your worst Shooter should have your highest Field Goal Percentage, because they should only take layups and power moves to the bucket.”
~ Don Meyer
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“You can win a lot of games with skill, but championships are won with toughness and perseverance. Kids with the heart of a Lion, competitors!”
~ Tom Izzo 💯💯💯
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Players on the Bench are a very important part of what happens on the floor...Our Bench must be “Alive”, focused and ready to contribute...a great Bench helps everyone to concentrate better, a great Bench makes everyone better.
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“You’re either a great teammate and fully invested, or you’re not.”
~ Brad Stevens, former Celtics Head Coach
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Love this, “Great Point Guards always display these three traits: 1) Take Care of the Ball 2) Talk 3) Change Speeds.” ~ Rick Majerus
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“I only count makes! In the summer, I make 500 shots a day. During the season, I make 200-350 a day!”
~ Stephen Curry
“Crave the end result so much so that the work is irrelevant.”
~ Tim Grover
#Winning
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“I think some parents now
look at a youngster failing as
the final thing. It's a process,
and failure is part of the
process…the same goes for teams, it’s a process and failure is part of the process.”
~ Coach Mike Krzyzewski
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“The toughest thing to do in coaching is to keep it simple.”
~ Rick Majerus
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“You win through execution; you don’t win because you can out-jump them, outrun them or out-shoot them. You outthink them and you out-execute them.” ~ Bob Knight on Winning Basketball
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“You do your Players a great disservice if you don’t coach them, demand and hold them accountable, teach them how to play.”
~ Rick Majerus
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Coach Wooden to his Players:
“Remember that you represent others who are responsible for you as well as yourself...and your personal appearance and conduct should not reflect discredit in any way upon yourself or upon those whom you represent. Be a good example.”
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Bob Knight on Practice:
“Basketball, more than other sports, structure & what you do in Practice determines your success or lack there of...teach your players how to play as opposed to running plays, to think and to concentrate...break it down into parts & put it back together.”
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Herb Sendek on the 3 most Important Relationships for the Head Coach to have:
1. Your Best Player, must be able to coach’em hard
2. The Sixth Man - key to substitutions
3. The Thirteenth Man - must feel engaged
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“Winning is hard...that’s why very few Teams win. Oh, you can get through college being half-assed. You can get through life half-assed. But, I guarantee you...you can’t win being half-assed!”
~ Bob Knight on Winning
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“I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession……I’m glad I was a teacher.”
~ Coach John Wooden
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“We do not have an Offense that involves patterns…I do not believe in teaching plays, I believe in teaching our kids how to make plays.”
~ Bob Knight
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“Analytics doesn’t matter if you can’t get your guys to play hard, playing for each other and playing together.”
~ Nate Oats
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Three thoughts on Team by Coach John Wooden:
1) No one Player is ever bigger than the Team.
2) The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the Team.
3) The Star of the Team, is the Team!
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“There is Nothing more Harmful to the Team than a Lack of Discipline.”
~ Don Meyer
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Know your No’s!
1) No Paint (Code Red/911)
2) No Baseline
3) No Rhythm Threes
4) No Direct Drives
5) No Fast Break Lay-ups
6) No Second Shots
7) No FOULS
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2/1 Closeouts: Getting On to Off and Off to On the Ball...be in Two Places at Once!
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“We chart the number of passes we make per half, per game...when we can get 250 plus passes in the game we are really tough to beat.” ~ Leonard Hamilton
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“Championships are Built in the Off-Season.” ~ Tony Bennett
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Coach Tony Bennett on guarding the basketball: “Be a road block...spread out, get wide and work to keep the ball in front.”
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“My win/loss record will not be on my tomb stone, but I will be accountable for the impact I have on our Players.” ~ Brittney Ezell, ETSU
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ON TIME, ALL THE TIME
“In 19 years, Tim Duncan was never late for practice, workout, or bus. That's a standard for excellence you tend to take for granted.” ~ Monty Williams
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Jeff VanGundy on How to steal wins: “Practice more than your opponents and play your best players more!”
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Culture eats Strategy for Lunch, everything starts and ends with Culture!
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We will have an inordinate amount of Closeouts in a 40 minute game. Practice the things you do the most...Closeouts with High Hands, Jump-up & Jump-back.
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"The measure of who we are is how we react to something that does not go our way."
~ Gregg Popovich
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Ways to know that you have a We above Me Culture: 1) Trust throughout Program 2) Love for each other 3) A Clean Locker Room 4) Good Screening Team 5) Huddles on Floor 6) Help Teammates up after Diving for Loose Ball or Taking a Charge 7) Sprinting off the Floor 8) Embrace Roles.
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Bob Knights Keys in Teaching Offense:
1) Shot Selection; “Teach in everything you do!”
2) Handling the Ball; “Eliminate those things that cause you to lose.”
3) Movement w/o Ball; “Most important in getting good shots.”
4) Screening; “Most difficult thing for Defense to handle.”
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“If we can do these things for 40 minutes, then we can control the game with our Defense. 1) Get Back on Defense and get set before the Offense arrives 2) Shrink the Court to Defend a smaller area 3) Closeout on the Catch with High Hands 4) All 5 Players Rebound.” ~ Dick Bennett
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“You have to Pressure the Ball...you cannot allow the Ball Handler to go Window Shopping!”
~ Coach Tony Bennett
#PackLine
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Key attributes to winning: 1) Defend 2) Great Shots 3) Take Care of the Ball. Doesn’t matter what level, what league, it’s all about the execution of fundamentals and taking care of the above items.
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Coach Tony Bennett Offensive Thoughts: Play unselfish as a Team, Always make x-tra pass, Take Care of the Ball, Take great shots, get open as a cutter, acknowledge screener, no jump passes, move, Offense is spacing and spacing is offense, must work on shooting, know your roll.
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"Winning is Hard. You can do a lot in life half-assed and get by, but you can't win championships half-assed." - Bob Knight
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“If you learn to use it right(Adversity), it will buy you a ticket to a place you could not have gone.”
~ Tony Bennett
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PACK LINE DEFENSE:
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“Complacency creates a blatant disregard for doing the little things right...all the little things that take discipline.”
~ Nick Saban
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Jeff VanGundy on the root causes of most Player/Coach confrontations: 1) Player is simply not good enough 2) Player is not unselfish enough, does not want to pass 3) Player is not conditioned, is out of shape physically and 4) Player is not Committed to Defense, to winning.
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“The Intensity of Practice ultimately determines the success of your Team.”
~ Dick Bennett
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“The Passer makes the Shooter...There’s a dramatic difference between makes and misses, when you get a good pass or a bad pass.” ~ Steve Kerr
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“Basketball is the most over coached and under taught game there is.”
~ Pete Newell
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“You win with people...not with offenses and defenses. You as the coach must develop roles for each individual based on their particular talent and strengths. You demand what he can do; you never allow what he cannot.”
~ Bob Knight
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Rick Majerus on teaching: “Do not turn the pages so fast that you can’t read them...we teach at a slow and deliberate pace...compartmentalization, teach in segments...I love exactness and precision...delineation.”
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Mike Dunlap, thoughts on Practice:
1. Have 4 two minute scrimmages at beginning of practice. Shape the rest of Practice on what your eyes tell you from the Scrimmages.
2. The time you put into your Practice Plan is like writing a paper...do a draft, re-write, review, re-write.
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"Defense brings teams together...Offense makes teams feel good, but the defense is what brings teams together.”
~ Doc Rivers
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“Losing is a truth serum. That’s when you really learn about people. If we can lose together, and we can still survive…to me, that’s the foundational piece.”
~ Coach Tony Bennett
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A few quick hitters from HOF Chuck Daley:
🏀 Good Offense is Spacing & Spacing is Good Offense
🏀 You are the most open when you first catch the ball (love this!)
🏀 Defense Cannot Guard Two Things in a Row
🏀 Defense does not break down on help, it breaks down on the Recovery
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“Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.”
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“Practicing with the team is a privilege, not a right. In order to have that privilege, people need to meet certain standards of timeliness, effort, attitude and communication...This not only elicits the best results, but it gets to the mission of equipping people for life.”
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Don Meyer’s Thee Program Rules:
* Everybody Takes Notes—survey of the 500 richest people and they shared this trait.
• Everybody Picks up Trash—leave it better than the way you found it.
• Everybody says Please and Thank You.—courtesy pays, when you’re not courteous you
pay.
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Re-Post:
“Jimmy Butler was ranked 72nd as a HS Senior in the state of Texas, he didn’t make first, second or third team all Big East Conference during his career...but, he has always had an edge to prove he belongs.”
~ Buzz Williams
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Great advice for Leaders: 1) Be true to who you are 2) Talk Straight at all times 3) Demand Accountability 4) Run toward your Problems, not away from them 4) Work, Work, Work 5) Savor the Journey, it’s all about the Process!
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One of the hardest but most effective lessons for Teams to learn and have the discipline to execute: Pass up a Good Shot for a Great Shot!
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“I couldn’t have kids who didn’t play hard. But I could have kids who weren’t good players.”
~ Rick Majerus
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Don Meyer on Teaching & Coaching; “Teach with dignity. Soft rain is absorbed more so than hard rain. Hard rain just tends to run off.” 💯💯💯
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Pack Line Defense: Know Your No’s!
1) NO PAINT
2) No Baseline
3) No Direct Drives
4) No Rhythm Threes
5) No FB Lay-ups
6) No Second Shots
7) No Fouls
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“Mental toughness in general isn’t being the most physical or just being able to make the big shot. It’s being able to do your job on the next play every single time. That’s hard to do. That consistency isn’t for everyone. And that’s why it’s the mark of really good players.”
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“The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices.”
~ Bob Knight
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"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." ~ Nick Saban
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“You know, this is not a democracy. Everybody doesn’t get to do what they want to do. Everybody doesn’t get to do what they feel like doing. You’ve got to buy in and do what you’re supposed to do to be a part of the team and do the things you need to do in practice every day.”
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Butler Bulldogs & Coach Brad Stevens Program Standards/Expectations:
1) Team is Always First
2) Work to Improve Daily
3) Be Tough with the Ball
4) Dominate Defensively
5) Take Great Shots
6) Dominate with Effort Plays
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Jeff VanGundy on Winning: “Simply, Play your best Players...don’t worry about fatigue, getting more guys in the game...play your best Players!
#Loveit
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The Keys for any Team that faces adversity; 1) Stick Together 2) Be Positive 3) Be Tough...focus on being great at all the things that do not require Talent.
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5 Things that separate Great from Good Programs,
1) Preparation: Prepare like just lost last game
2) Teaching: Quality over Quantity
3) Consistency: Everything fits
4) Compete: Must Compete in Practice first
5) Close: Must be able to Coach your best player!
~ Coach Don Meyer
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“Five players on the floor functioning as one single unit: team, team, team - no one more important than the other.”
~ Coach Norman Dale
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“5% of a person’s life is made up of our performance on game day, 95% is made up of the time we are preparing & practicing.” ~
@JonGordon11
The same is true for Basketball Players…Champions are made and Championships are won without the bright lights, when nobody is watching!
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"Our goal is not to win. It’s to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself." - Mike Krzyzewski
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Don Meyer Quick Hitters:
* A selfish Defender guards their own man
* Two Hands to Rebound
* Defending the Post: Show your Hands
* Be Hard to Guard without the Ball
* You are the most open when you first catch
* Don’t talk your game, yell your game
* Never sacrifice Quickness for
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Dick Bennett on how to keep from losing:
1) Prevent Turnovers
2) Take Good Shots
3) Don’t give up Uncontested Shots to the Opponent
4) Make Free Throws
5) Do not Foul
6) Don’t give up Second Shots!
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One of the great coaching lines from the movie, Miracle...”We’re not looking for the best ones Craig, we’re looking for the right ones.” ~ Coach Herb Brooks
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Two Key Thoughts by Dick Bennett regarding Practice:
1) The Game tells me what to do the next day in Practice. Whatever we did not do well, Practice is going to receive a heavy dose of.
2) Practice the Things that Happen the Most.
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“One person can’t make a team but one person can break a team. Stay positive!”
@jongordon11
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Why Pack Line:
1) Not going to give up the Game
2) Offense wants to make plays, Defense Force Next Pass
3) Eliminating Help & Recover, Position is Your Help
4) No Baseline Rotations, less fouls & better rebounding
5) Cannot keep Offense from getting Shots, can influence type.
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So saddened by the loss of one of our games all-time giants, Bob Knight. No one has contributed more, and made such a monumental impact on the game and how it was played than The General. He was so good to me professionally and personally, and we will all miss him greatly!
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WE LEARN....
🏀 10% of what we read
🏀 20% of what we hear
🏀 30% of what we see
🏀 50% of what we both hear and see
🏀 70% of what is discussed with others
🏀 80% of what we experience personally
🏀 95% of what we TEACH to someone else
~ William Glasser
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