Joe Mazzulla... Say Less
Not just a saying for the young folk
When a player is struggling, sometimes this is needed:
He gets to this idea in explaining the conversation he might have with a player who is struggling, as if distilling the program into a single hypothetical meeting. Naurato doesn’t believe in psychological manipulation as a motivator to break free of a slump. Instead, he wants to help chart a path out of that slump together, cultivating an environment where people like McGroarty or Hughes want to stay and keep developing.
“I want you to do more,” Naurato says. “‘Hey I haven’t scored in five games.’ ‘Great, let me sit with you and let's watch all your stuff.’ I want to help you score because I need you to score. I don’t need to fuck with you and put you on the fourth line to get you going, because our kids they work and there's an honest effort. That's what's so good, man, is we have great people, and they're always together and they care and it sounds cliché, and I always say this, but that's the culture.”
And sometimes, because Power can say less, only this is needed:
In either case, the common factor is constructive energy.
Some might even call it love.
One thing to not get twisted from this video is you can’t just ‘say it’. Joe Mazzulla can. But you might not be able to just yet…
The reporter questions him and goes, “That’s it?” to his response of simply telling the player “I love you.”
There is one small caveat…
If you calibrate above 200 as a coach, it is that simple because your words and who you are being(energy) are integrous. Joe Mazzulla = Way above 200.
If a coach calibrates below 200, simply saying the words without the accompanying positive energy field behind it does nothing because it’s non-integrous.
The kids have a saying when they understand already… They say two profound words in their reply to you:
Say less
Power says less because it can. Because love doesn’t always need words.
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