It's About the Grit

 

Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit on the floor during the Detroit Pistons game against the Miami Heat. I was close enough to the Pistons bench that I could hear their head coach, Stan Van Gundy, talk to his players. The Pistons won the game. At one point, with the Pistons up by ten, a Miami player was shooting free throws and Van Gundy yelled in exasperation, “Will somebody please box somebody out?” I would have expected the coach to yell in exasperation if his team was down by ten, but up by ten?

I've been thinking about this scene off and on since the game, and today I finally have a deep enough understanding of what was happening to write about it. Van Gundy was essentially yelling:

"Get some grit and use it.”

Basketball is an interesting game. A team can easily overcome a ten-point deficit in less than a minute. It wasn't good enough to Van Gundy for his team to be ahead. He wanted his team to continue expanding the point difference.

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