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Defining Aggression

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Below is a post I borrowed from Gary Colson about getting guys to play with more aggression.  Coach Colson had a great career as the head coach of several division 1 basketball programs and even worked with the Memphis Grizzlies alongside Jerry West.  He has a great blog here  that I highly recommend to any coach.  It hasn't been updated in a while, but it still has great content. You can see read the post in full here . Situation: A tennis ball is being served at you at 150 MPH. What thoughts do you have in trying to return the ball? Read on and find out how you can return the serve. A few years ago I picked up the book “ The Inner Game of Tennis ” by Tim Gallwey. I loved the book so I wrote the author and told him his thoughts in the book were outstanding. In two weeks after reading my note Tim called me and said he lived in Malibu where I coached basketball at Pepperdine University. We had lunch that very day. I told him about a young man named...