Why Should You Listen To Me?

Another thing that I want to talk about, though, is I got a comment on my last. On last week's podcast. It was real. He was real respectful with it, but it was a genuine question. It was a good question he's asked. He said, hey, Coach, no hate. But what is your. Like, are you a pro or something? Like, how come we know that we should trust what you're saying? How do I know that what you're saying is actually right? And again, I thought it was a really good question, and I actually think that. I think he might have deleted his comment because I didn't see it when I looked at it, but I don't. Maybe I just missed it. But my response to him basically was like, okay, do what I'm telling you to do. Do what I do. Like, take my advice, do it. If it doesn't work, then don't listen to me. Just unsubscribe, unfollow me. Like, block me, whatever you want to do. Like, don't, Don't. Don't follow me. Like, don't. Don't listen to what I'm saying. If what I tell you doesn't help you, then you shouldn't listen to me. Like, you should. You should just. And that goes with anybody, if any. Like, anybody who you see, it doesn't matter who they are. If what they tell you doesn't help you, then don't listen to them. If, let's say, for example, you know, LeBron James. LeBron James told you that if you want to become a better athlete, you should cut your left leg off. Hopefully you wouldn't listen to him, okay? Because just because he's LeBron doesn't mean that you should just listen to what he says. And likewise, it's the opposite way. Just because somebody isn't LeBron doesn't mean that they can't tell you something that's going to help you. Okay? So again, it really comes down to, does what I'm telling you get your results? Does what your trainer or what a person you listen to do, they help you get results. That's really what it's all about, okay? Because we can forget about the whole authority thing. Like, oh, this guy played in the NBA, so he clearly knows what he's talking about. Listen, Brad Stevens, Steve Kerr, Phil Jackson, Gregg Popovich, all those guys are obviously great coaches, and all of them were really, really good players, too. You know, none of them were stars, but. And obviously Brad Stevens didn't even play Division 1 basketball. But all three of them, all four of them, were really good players. You know, three of them played in the NBA, but not, none of them were like, you know, big time players. Like, none of them were, none of them were stars by any means at all. And, but despite that, all of them are fantastic coaches. I mean, between Steve Kerr, Phil Jackson, Greg Hobbitage, that's three hall of Famers as coaches and, and Steve, probably a little bit of both player and coach because of all, I mean, won so many titles, but three, I mean, three championships as a coach, obviously great team, but still, like your coaches, your coach plays a role in that. And Brad Stevens, I think Brad Stevens will be a Hall of Fame coach one day, right? He's already on pace to be the, the most winningest coach ever in Celtics history. So I think he's going to be a Hall of Fame coach as well. All four are tremendous coaches, but none of them were hall of Fame players. None of them were hall of Fame, you know, and all of them were all NBA, you know, superstars. They weren't. But assuming that because they weren't superstars, they can't help a superstar is what's called the authority fallacy, right? Where you might say, hey, this guy only played here. He didn't, he didn't, he didn't play in the NBA. So how can he, how can he train that guy? If that were the case, nobody could train Michael Jordan, Nobody could train LeBron, nobody could train Kobe Bryant. I mean, Tim Grover, who was basically Michael Jordan's trainer, I mean, Tim Grover is not in the NBA hall of Fame or the basketball hall of Fame, right? But he still was able to help Michael. So it really comes down to can you help somebody, right? Because who cares about, you know, what, like who, who played where, who played here? Because here's the thing, I'll say, over the past couple years, I've, I've been able to coach with, work with a lot of really, really good coaches, okay? Just in my area. And I've also worked with a few bad ones coaches who just were terrible. They were horrible. And a couple of them play Division 1 basketball, played pro basketball, and yet they are horrible coaches. Awful, like to the point where they make their teams and their players worse, right? They are horrible coaches and some of the best coaches that I work with didn't even play college basketball, right? And, and they make their players better, they make their teams better. So what that goes by, what that goes to show is that it really has nothing to do with, with where you played at, with, with all it really depends like, can you, can you help your team win? Can you help your guys get better? That's all that matters. The end of the day doesn't matter at all. And so the funny thing with that too is, like, some of those D1 in college guys, like, they're not even good trainers. Like, forget, like team coaching, they're terrible at it, but they're not even good at training either, which is remarkable to me. And again, some of the trainers that I know who, who didn't play at a high level, who maybe played, you know, didn't play college or maybe lower level college, like, they're, they're, they're way better at it, okay? Because a lot of times, listen, when you're, A lot of times players of the D1 at the Pro level are there because they have, you know, great height, great athleticism, stuff that really can't be taught, right. That you're, you're born with, okay? Obviously everyone had to work at it to an extent, but not everyone had to work the same at it, okay? So if you get to the D1 level because you're way bigger than everybody else, well, you didn't have to put in the same amount of attention to detail as that, you know, five, nine, point guard, right? He had to put in a lot more attention to detail because he can't afford to not do that. Right? But if you're 6 10, then you're just going to be there because you're 6 10, right? And that's really what it comes down to is guys think, oh, he played here, so he knows this, she played here, she knows this. But if they didn't, like, you have to look at the context, right. Of. Okay, what do they do when they were there? What, what position did they play? So it's a all encompassing sort of thing. But that was that. I obviously didn't say all that to the guy in the comment, but that was kind of my thing. It's like, take my advice, take my workouts, take whatever I'm doing. See if it works for you. If it works, keep doing it. If it doesn't work, then don't do it. I don't want you to, like, I want you to go find something that works for you, okay? I'm not gonna sit here and say like, oh, like it's your fault that. Don't. Just don't do it, okay? And that's really my plea to you. And I would hope that you'll take me up on that. And then if there's somebody else out There that you are listening to just because they did this or did that, evaluate what they're saying, and if it works for you, cool, then that's awesome, right? But if not, then find something that does. Okay? That's really, that's really what it is for me. I think about all the time because there's a lot of guys that you can, you can listen to. I take like, you know, NBA analysts, right? If you look at guys who are on TV and a lot of them who played in the NBA don't know anything, they can't talk about the NBA, okay? They, there are guys who were superstars in the NBA, guys who are hall of Famers, who, when I listen to them give their basketball opinion, I'm like, this dude has no clue what he's talking about. Because this dude came in the NBA, he was better than everybody else. He's bigger, faster, stronger than everybody else. So he's an NBA hall of Famer, right? So he, he has not had to. A guy who I love is Jay Williams, right? Played at Duke, had a, a, a, a crazy accident and then ended up not played. A guy I think played a couple years for the Bulls but didn't really have a crazy good NBA career. And like that, he, I think, is one of the best NBA analysts out there, despite not being a Hall of Famer, okay? And that's because, like, you know, a guy like that has to work his way up throughout the, throughout the ranks, right? He doesn't just get a job as an analyst because of his NBA career. Like all these, A lot of these other guys get careers because they were good NBA players. Jay Williams had to work at it. And I think because of that, he, he carefully does his research, plans out his opinions and talks about good points, okay? But there are other guys, again, I'm not going to call people out. There are some guys who are on TV who are only on there because of their playing career. They don't know anything about basketball aside from being better than everybody else. And they don't have to do the research because they just say, hey, you know what? I play, I'm a Hall of Famer, so I can say whatever I want. And that's really how it is. It's the same thing with, with coaches and trainers, like guys who just say, hey, I, I, I did this here, I played here, I did this. That they, they can use that to justify saying, like, you have to listen what I'm saying. But that's not always the best case to, to. That's always the best thing to follow as a player. Okay. Be critical, be skeptical, figure out what works and stick with that. That's.