TAbout sports work winning. But of course, it doesn’t mean there is no loss of abundant. This is the most prominent every year in the NBA on the first day of spring. When there is about a dozen games in the normal season, it is clear which teams are also rans-and they probably know it for a while. But how does it affect this staff while a team often lost and loses? How do players cope with low levels?
“When he lost,” he says, former NBA All-Star Xavier McDaniel, “This is like getting a life imprisonment for a lifetime. I knew for me, he started to drink beer. Losing created very bad habits. Losing could be a disease. [my rookie season] I was drinking beer until January! “
As he grew up, Mcdaniel seemed to have been sentenced to professionals. Long, hard and talentedThe X-Man took high school and university teams to victory after the victory. He was generally selected by Seattle Supersonics in 1985. When you are the best choice of such, you usually enter a low team. That was the case for Mcdaniel. The rookie season finished Sonics 31-51. They developed in the second season and for most of his career in the league. However, after a few seasons, Boston and New Jersey had timely difficult.
“I said [you can tell a losing season is unfolding] When you buy about 30 games and fight, ”he says. For me, [losing] It sounds like shit. Everything is bad when you lose. Food is bad, everything is bad. “
If you are a young and in a bad team, you may hope that the list will receive reinforcements through the draft in the coming summer. However, if you are a losing veterine, you can start packing your bags. Bad teams want to exhibit young men and deal with veterinarians. Or it may be a condition that the temperaments in the team do not mix. “Something about the NBA, Mc says Mcdaniel, ın You should find the men playing well together. “
When he starts his career Scott Williams He didn’t barely knew what it was like to lose. In the first three seasons, he won three titles with Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls. But in the following years, he found himself standing in the bad Philadelphia teams. He says these cadres don’t care about the team’s opinion. That was their collapse.
“Most of the time,” says Williams, ” [about the] The character of the team’s makeup. In basketball, only eight men really determine the success or failure of the season. And if you have one or two or three men in a team [right] Character, you will spend a losing year. “
In NBA, Williams says everyone is talented. Therefore, it is usually attitude that distinguishes the winners from those who lose. “If your star doesn’t have a good character, if he doesn’t want to put it, preparation, consistency, Williams says,” If you don’t have flexibility, you’ll compete. “
Williams remembers his days with Jordan. “There was no one who had a more intense and stronger will and passion for work than Michael Jordan, Williş said Williams. “If he’s doing superstar, everyone should come.”
Williams played 60 plus winning teams and teams in young people. He says there is no bigger higher in his life, maybe Rather than winning an NBA title, except for the birth of their children. Too much work, time and sacrifice. But the opposite is true when in a team that goes anywhere. This was the case in Philly in the cadres managed by a young Allen Iverson.
“When you are in a lost season – my friend, you can’t wait for the scary year to end,” Williams says. “You look with men every day with negative attitudes first people. It’s miserable to be around. You count the days until your contract is over to get out of there. ”It is difficult to be motivated. He says.
Worse, while in a team that lost with players who don’t care about healing, Williams says it can cause questioning your own efforts. “Why will he take the risk of diving for a ball and hit my knee at the age of 15, and he won’t even help you get out of the ground after doing this?” says. “But there are some things to fight and noticed that it’s a bigger picture.”
In 1981, Cedric Maxwell The NBA finals were selected MVP. Larry Bird, Kevin Mchale, Robert Parish and Tiny Archibald, surrounded by men like Boston Celtics Houston Rockets beat the equipment was Maxwell. However, the win came after several years of reconstruction, including the first two years of Maxwell’s career to Celtics 32-50 and 29-53. Although he played in the Eastern Conference Finals in 1977, Boston was in the middle of a revision. Injuries and aging players disturbed the squad. So, in the hope of reversing things, Celtics coach Tom Heinsohn looked at the rookie.
The team lost six games in a row to start Maxwell’s rookie campaign. But on November 11, he played more than 30 minutes in a match against Buffalo. He scored 21 points and took nine rebounds. “I came to the game and I really played well, Max says Maxwell. “And I remember [veteran Celtic] John Havlicek came to me and said, ‘Hey, Rook, just go on!’ He said. But despite the good game, Celtics never translated the script that year. ” [vets] ‘We will enter a line!’ But we never did it. “
He said all the lost Maxwell feels down, he says. But then the team’s senior great man presented his own philosophy. “I remember telling me that Curtis Rowe was depressed about a game – Curtis said to me, ‘Rook, no LS or WS on them.’ He said.
However, while some men do not live with results and die, it is everything for Maxwell. “I’ve always been a competitor, or he says. Thus, he did his best: he focused on himself and his self -development. He focused on what he could control. Im I was going to find a way to make myself better, or he says. He watched his teammates and bad habits. He made sure he didn’t follow the footprints.
“In the late 1970s, drugs were great in the NBA, Max says Maxwell. “Did I want to get me some coke or make some blow to me a few times? But I had a strong constitution to know that I didn’t want anything.
When we look back, Maxwell can summarize the loss position with a advice. Do not allow noise and negativity to affect your game or the way you look at the world. Because there may be a rise in the corner, playoffs, a chance of a title.
“The best thing, Max says Maxwell, olmak Being your own person. As my mother and father said, be a leader. Don’t follow. This was something that helped me in what I wanted to do.
