If you put your effort and concentration and to play into your potential to be the best that you can be,

I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book, we're going to be winners.

The talent for so many players today, the talent and the spotlight, it's taking them to heights that their character's not strong enough to support.

I'm one of those set goals achievements.

I talked about faith, passion, obviously, the drive with the guys that I've been around and the guys that surround me every single day. If I want to be one of the best, I've got to play with and against the best. So that which gets praised gets what's beautiful. You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle, brought you by PGC basketball. Thank you. We're tuning in. you're listening to the Hardwood Hustle brought to you by PGC Basketball. Thank you, we're tuning in. You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle broadcast here from Baltimore, Maryland. I'm your host, Adam Bradley, alongside T.J. Roseanne, coaches, today we're going to start a four-part series that you're not going to want to miss. And it is the four traps of coaches. And those four traps, I'll go over them briefly here in the beginning.

We're going to dig into the first one in today's episode.

But it's pretty powerful, TJ.

Controlling coaches create compliant players.

The second trap, critical coaches create insecure players.

The third trap, avoiding coaches create disengaged players.

And the last trap is rescuing coaches equals helpless players.

We're going to dig into each of those over the next four episodes.

So you're going to want to make sure you check them all out because these are powerful things and powerful things as coaches

you need to be aware of. But let's start right at the beginning, TJ, today. Controlling leaders,

controlling coaches create compliant players. Let me say that again. Controlling coaches

create compliant players. Yeah. Really interesting.

So I think probably when I look at these, I think most coaches probably do, you probably, if you were to say, that one's sort of me.

You know, I think you probably fall into one of these traps just based on your personality a little bit. And then also you may just

fall into these traps throughout the course of a season or career or whatever. But I think the

first one, and when I read these, I instantly thought that might be me a little bit. And we'll talk

about that one when we get to that one but the one that that was really

interesting to me is that the other three insecure disengaged and helpless

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