Road Runners Basketball: September 2014

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Champions Times 2

The Roadrunners, based in Framingham, won the ZeroGravity Metro West Championship in the Upper Middle School Division on Tuesday, August 19 at Lexington Minuteman High School by defeating Mass Commanders Elite 36 to 33 in a hard-fought final.

About Our Program

"If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For our ship, the Road Runners basketball team, to be successful, it must not be made up of all scorers, all great defenders, or all awesome rebounders. The team must be made up of players who have different areas of expertise. These areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, rebounding, shooting, dribbling, communicating, playing defense, cheering, knowing the game, knowing the plays, boxing out, screening, and hustling. Each member of the team must possess some ability in each, but it is only the very special player who possesses a vast amount of ability in all of them. That is why there are five people on the floor at a time during the game.

Every player does something better than the rest of the players, and that is what makes that player special to the team. That is the role that player has to fill on the team, to be the best player on the team at one, and only one thing. When called upon, without hesitation, that player has to be ready to perform and show that he is the best player at that skill.

Another aspect of becoming a great team, is the players knowing what their role is on the team - more or less, to see the big picture, to have the ability to see how all the parts/players go together, and why the coach does what he does. For a team to be very good, there must be great communication between each player, and with each player and the coach.

When the stars align, and that special group of players comes along that possesses the skills and attitudes needed to be great, it will be because each player knows why he is special to the team, and they understand how they help their team be great.

We are building that ship with the Road Runners. Once the ship is built, the wins will take care of themselves. We are based in Framingham, MA.

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Champions Times 2

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