Brad Stevens on Building Confidence

You know, you build confidence through doing really hard things over and over and over, because that's your focus. That's your intent. Your job is your focus. You know what you're supposed to do. You perform every assignment. You do it physically, you do it tough, and then all of a sudden, the ball goes in. Just kind of funny how it works. The game honors it. You know, I had an old friend that was one of the best NAI coaches ever and coached for 34 years in the state of Indiana, and his phrase that his team used was, the game honors toughness. And, boy, is that true. You see that. You see that over and over. And so I would say that if we're struggling with the ball going in the hole, that we should just lock into what we need to do better, and that'll take care of itself.