Summary of Bob Knight & Bob Hammel's The Power of Negative Thinking

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Sample Book Insights:

#1 As a coach, you must understand that it is not the development of your offense or defense that will make you a consistently winning team; it is the elimination of mistakes.

#2 To win, you must first show your players how not to lose. In basketball, bad fouls top my list of bad habits. A bad foul comes from poor concentration by a player responsible for carrying out a defensive assignment.

#3 Basketball is a game of mistakes, and you have to address them in terms of the four words that are at the heart of this negative-to-positive manifesto: We have no chance to win if… We’re going to get our ass beat unless… We can’t play this way.

#4 The idea that you can do anything you really want to do is a hollow platitude. You can’t. Each of us has more things that we cannot do well than we can.