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Attitude: Develop a Winning Mindset on and off the Court - Hardcover

Wright, Jay; Sheridan, Michael; Dagostino, Mark

 
9780399180859: Attitude: Develop a Winning Mindset on and off the Court
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0399180850 ISBN 13: 9780399180859
Verlag: Ballantine Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the coach of the 2016 and 2018 NCAA Tournament–winning Villanova University men’s basketball team comes a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a champion, along with lessons from his coaching career and the story of his personal road to success.

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When Kris Jenkins sank a three-pointer at the buzzer to win the 2016 NCAA Tournament, it was a victory not just for a team and its coach but for an entire program. In his twentieth season with the Villanova program, including a five-year stint as an assistant to Coach Rollie Massimino, Coach Jay Wright had achieved his lifelong dream—and witnessed the culmination of a decades-long effort to build a culture of winning around a set of core values.

In Attitude, Coach Wright shares some of the leadership secrets that have enabled Villanova, a private university with an undergraduate enrollment of less than 6,500, to thrive in the hypercompetitive world of college athletics. As he recounts the story of the 2015–16 Wildcats, Coach Wright offers anecdotes from his own journey up the ladder of success, with lessons learned on the Little League playing fields of his youth and wisdom passed down from his coaches and mentors.

Each step of Villanova’s journey to a national championship incorporates a signature term torn from Coach Wright’s own motivational playbook. Here are key principles that aspiring leaders can apply, not only on the basketball court but in the boardroom, the classroom, and the living room. From learning to accept your role to remembering to honor those who came before us, Jay Wright’s core values provide a positive blueprint for transformational team building based on the idea that anyone—from the head coach to the last player on the bench—can be a leader when the moment demands it.

The product of a lifetime’s worth of championship-level preparation, Attitude is perfect for anyone looking to build a team, achieve a goal, or nurture their own winning culture.

Praise for Attitude

“Jay Wright’s Attitude is filled with wonderful anecdotes, life lessons, and that which we all seek: wisdom.”—Phil Knight, co-founder and chairman emeritus, Nike

“In 2015–16, Villanova displayed the best attributes of a champion by playing hard, smart, and together. Jay Wright instilled those traits in his team, and in Attitude he shares the universal leadership lessons that helped it succeed.”—Mike Krzyzewski, head coach, Duke University basketball

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jay Wright is the head basketball coach at Villanova University. He grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and attended Bucknell University, where he played varsity basketball. Prior to becoming head coach at Villanova in 2001, he served seven seasons as head coach at Hofstra University. He is a two-time Naismith National Coach of the Year.

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It’s Not About the Championship


In many ways, the story of our 2016 Championship win began the season before, in what seemed like another “storybook season”— right up until the moment we suffered the agony of a crushing defeat. For fans and the media and most people looking in from the out- side, it seems a season can only be called “storybook” if it comes complete with a storybook ending. In our basketball family, we don’t see it that way. Not at all.

This may come as a surprise, but our big goal each year isn’t to win the Championship. Our goal is something much simpler: We want to be the best team we can be by the end of the season. That’s it. And at the end of the 2014–2015 season, we were one heck of a good team.
Not to say that we don’t want to win, or that a loss to a No. 8 seed in the second round of March Madness was what we were looking for. No one wants to lose. It’s just that while the press and some fans described the end of our 2014–2015 season like some sort of tragedy, it was my job to keep everyone in our program focused on how well we’d played all year—and to think about the lessons we could learn from our mistakes.
 
 
The World Evaluates on Its Own Terms.
We Evaluate on Our Own.
 
Looking back on it, we really were having a storybook season.
Despite the graduation of James Bell and Tony Chennault, two pillars of our success during a 29–5 campaign in 2013–2014, we had made great strides on this 2014–2015 journey. Darrun Hilliard and JayVaughn Pinkston had become true leaders as seniors in our pro- gram. Ryan Arcidiacono, Dylan Ennis, and Daniel Ochefu comprised our junior class. We started those five and relied on sophomores Josh Hart and Kris Jenkins, along with freshman Phil Booth, as key pieces for us off the bench. We had sophomore Darryl Reynolds ready on those nights when we needed help at the forward position too.

This was a deep team.

The group also displayed a toughness that I loved. Everyone on the roster was dialed into the tiny details that can spell the difference between victory and defeat. From the start of the season in Novem- ber and on through February, these young men established Villanova as a Top 10 team in both major polls. By March, we were in the Top 5 and considered a favorite to land a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tourna- ment.

Still, we hadn’t taken home a Big East Tournament Championship since 1995. There are a lot of folks who downplay postseason confer- ence tournaments because they aren’t the NCAA Tournament, but I’ve never felt that way. I came of age coaching in the 1980s and ’90s, and I cherish being a part of the Big East Tournament. I knew how much that win would mean to our Villanova community.

On the final day of the regular season, we honored our last Big East Tournament champions during halftime of our game against Georgetown at the Wells Fargo Center, where both the 76ers and the Flyers play their home games. Many of the key people who had lifted Villanova to the top of the conference twenty years earlier—head coach Steve Lappas, All-American Kerry Kittles, Jonathan Haynes, Jason Lawson, Alvin Williams, Eric Eberz, and Chuck Kornegay— were there that day. To have those guys in the stands during our final game of the regular season was magic. We take pride in playing hard always, but I think the presence of that team gave us an extra boost of determination. And when the game ended, and we won, we invited all of those guys to join us on the court as we took hold of the Big East regular season championship trophy. What a special moment that was, to see our players mingling with those Wildcat heroes.
Tradition means everything at Villanova, and we honor it every chance we get. Our fans love to see the legends from years past, and we want our current players to appreciate that we are all part of something much larger than any one of us. Our performance that whole season was a continuation of the work those guys had put into their big win in ’95. Two decades after the fact, you could still see the rewards of that title written all over their smiling faces.

A week later, we walked into what has to be one of the greatest settings in all of sports, and certainly one of my personal favorites: Madison Square Garden on a Saturday night, playing for the Big East Championship. With the fire and spirit of the 1995 team fresh in our memories, we put an end to our long Big East Tournament Champi- onship drought with a 69–52 win over Xavier.

That win was our fourteenth in a row and our thirty-second in thirty-four games. Like I said, it was a storybook season.

After the postgame press conference, as I walked into the spacious locker room that usually belongs to the New York Knicks, the team cheered and sprayed me with water. (They’re too young for cham- pagne!) I emphasized the pride we as a staff took in the willingness of these young men to give wholly of themselves to our values. They in turn reveled in the simple pleasure of messing up their coach’s hair.

The next day—after a quick stop at the CBS studio to tape a seg- ment with Greg Gumbel, Clark Kellogg, Doug Gottlieb, and Seth Davis—we met up with our charter bus to make the two-plus-hour drive back to the Main Line. (That’s a common nickname for the area outside Philadelphia where Villanova is located.) Most college teams spend a whole lot of time on buses, and it’s natural to develop a rap- port with the driver. At Villanova, there has been a long line of good people in that role, most notably the late “Doc” Dougherty, who skill- fully steered us throughout legendary Coach Rollie Massimino’s ten- ure (1973–1992). Our current steward of the roads is John Mills, a genial, deep-voiced man who has the perfect temperament for long hours at the wheel. As much as we as a coaching staff appreciate John, that is nothing compared to how the players view him. They absolutely love the guy, and you see it in their interactions with him every time they board the bus. On this day, John was as pumped up as any of our players, and he clearly wanted everything he did to re- flect the winning feeling our team was carrying.
Somehow, while we were up in the CBS studio, John had navigated Manhattan’s crowded streets to find a primo parking space just a few steps from the front door at CBS. A bunch of us high-fived him as we climbed aboard, and in a matter of minutes we were through the Lincoln Tunnel and on our way. Unfortunately, after all of that, the bus broke down on the New Jersey Turnpike, but we barely minded. If you’re going to have engine trouble, there is no better time for it than in the afterglow of a Big East Championship. Help arrived in no time, and we made it back to campus just in time for our NCAA Tournament Selection Sunday Watch Party.

The Selection Show event is something we all look forward to. We invite about five hundred people to join us in the Villanova Room, a large ballroom located in the Connelly Center, the main student cen- ter on campus. Included are the players’ and coaches’ families, Villa- nova staff, alumni, and students. There is a buffet dinner and then we all turn our attention to the giant television screens in each corner to watch the show. The media is there to chronicle our reactions, and in the wake of our Big East win, the excitement was even more pal- pable than usual. When the announcers started unveiling the bracket, one region at a time, the room fell silent and everyone stared at those TVs. When they got to the East Region, and announced that we’d been seeded No. 1, you can imagine the scene:...

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Verlag
Ballantine Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0399180850
ISBN 13 
9780399180859
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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