Summary of Bob Knight & Bob Hammel's The Power of Negative Thinking

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#1 As a coach, you must understand that it is not the development of your offense or defense that will make you a consistently winning team; it is the elimination of mistakes.

#2 To win, you must first show your players how not to lose. In basketball, bad fouls top my list of bad habits. A bad foul comes from poor concentration by a player responsible for carrying out a defensive assignment.

#3 Basketball is a game of mistakes, and you have to address them in terms of the four words that are at the heart of this negative-to-positive manifesto: We have no chance to win if… We’re going to get our ass beat unless… We can’t play this way.

#4 The idea that you can do anything you really want to do is a hollow platitude. You can’t. Each of us has more things that we cannot do well than we can.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822507159

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Insights on Bob Knight & Bob Hammel's The Power of Negative Thinking

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

As a coach, you must understand that it is not the development of your offense or defense that will make you a consistently winning team; it is the elimination of mistakes.

#2

To win, you must first show your players how not to lose. In basketball, bad fouls top my list of bad habits. A bad foul comes from poor concentration by a player responsible for carrying out a defensive assignment.

#3

Basketball is a game of mistakes, and you have to address them in terms of the four words that are at the heart of this negative-to-positive manifesto: We have no chance to win if… We’re going to get our ass beat unless… We can’t play this way.

#4

The idea that you can do anything you really want to do is a hollow platitude. You can’t. Each of us has more things that we cannot do well than we can.

#5

Every coach has to deal with losing. The first essential to have in place is a plan to recover after a loss, learn