Greg Odento Josh McRoberts—and Jeff couldn’t even get Pitino, let alone other top Division I coaches, to notice him. “I felt like I had to change,” he says, “so people would pay attention.” It was a sad statement about amateur basketball, but an honest one. In the AAU ...
Their formula is simple: teamwork, sacrifice, cohesiveness, and more teamwork. It’s what Isaiah Thomas referred to as the “Secret of Basketball” in Bill Simmons’ book. As Simmons explained it, “Teams only win titles when their best players forget about statistics, sublimate their own games...