May 21st.
The Indiana Pacers erase a 14 point deficit in the NBA's Eastern Conference Championship and tie the game at the buzzer on this Tyrese Haliburton jump shot...
Hard to imagine that at practice the day before, Haliburton worked on this shot- running into the lane and then running back out, turning on one foot and firing up a toe-on-the-line 3 pointer.
While this event happened earlier in the year, social media snared this video and ran with it. What you see is Grand Sumo wrestler Ura fighting a much bigger Takayasu...
The move Ura performs at the end of the match, according to sources, has been implemented just 6 times in the last 25 years AND has a .02% effectiveness rate. Is it conceivable that Ura was practicing this move, knowing the slim chance it had of success or did it maybe just "come to him in the moment?"
Four climbers from the United Kingdom made history yesterday. Climbing Mount Everest is usually a multi week process requiring climbers to move from one elevation to a higher one, acclimating to the thin air with each higher camp until they summit and descend. This group left London on May 16th, was at base camp on May 17th and summited yesterday, May 21st.
Five total days! It is the fastest ascent of Everest in history.
Using science of xenon gas breathing treatments and hypoxic chambers, they defeated tradition and have now put the Everest expeditionary world on it's heels.
In one day, three examples of thinking outside the box, of looking away from text book solutions and using the solutions allotted them, created successful solutions to overcoming problems.
It's what we ask of our athletes but sometimes, as coaches, we don't give them the tools.
Let them learn to adapt, to solve problems, to explore and refine.
Let them overcome obstacles.
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