Basics to brilliance, part 4: the ‘greatest coach’ and a Honolulu reading program
“This was great coaching?” they asked themselves incredulously. Even after coming to terms with this doubt and initial negative emotive and social ambivalence about Wooden, and his coaching methods, Gallimore and Tharp decided to keep on attending Wooden’s training sessions in their attempt to objectively record and quantitatively measure and record their science-formulated observations: the purpose of which was to accurately answer (from an objective science perspective), not only the how and why Coach Wooden was elected by ESPN as the “greatest coach” of all time, but to also answer the how and why Wooden was achieving such amazing, and irrefutable, consistently successful outcomes. Especially, as noted, Wooden was engaged in an unforgiving, intense, highly competitive, and emotionally, a highly charged national elite sports performance arena where success was only judged by one word, one result, and one outcome: winning!
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