Can you feel the excitement?! With the big day on the horizon, our special Coach Will inspiration series continues as he and the team prepare for the game of the season:
POST THREE. BEST FRIENDS.
Coach Rich had to miss practice but he gave me a message to relay to the team. “Leave it all on the floor for your last game, starting today.” I loved it. It connected our practices to the final game that would decide our fate: Preparation for an event becoming a part of the event itself. Yes! Most of all, it held the promise of getting us to raise the intensity level in practice, which had yet to approach the level of an actual game. I started practice by relaying this message but I felt like they were just hearing words. I thought it was brilliantly simple. They thought it was simple. I was struggling to share the brilliance.
In these moments where I find myself flailing away to articulate something they think they already know, I feel my limitations as a leader, and sometimes I just have to eat it. But I was determined, so we went over what “leaving it on the floor” means...