I was fortunate enough to catch up with Denile High School basketball coach Marco Rubio at halftime of his team's homecoming game, where they found themselves down by 30. When inquiring about why his team was down by so much and what they needed to do in the second half to reverse their fortune, here's what he told me:
"Look, this is kind of what we expected all along. Even before tipoff, we were all talking about how, no matter what happened before it, an early 3-pointer in the second half would be all we needed to get back into the game and start thinking about winning. Just think about it, if we get the first basket in the second half and it's a 3-pointer, we go from being down 30 to just 27, and it becomes a whole new ball game. That might sound ridiculous to some people, but the speech I'm going to use at halftime is going to motivate these kids to do something special in the second half; it'll make them believe we can do this; and it's going to happen! I'm going to tell them about a time in tee-ball when my team was down two runs in the 1st inning and came back to win. So, it can happen! 2, 30, whatever; they're both multiples of the same number, right? So, yeah, we've got our opponent right where we want them and feel extremely confident going forward, because we're going to win this game, and even if we don't, we will!"
"Look, this is kind of what we expected all along. Even before tipoff, we were all talking about how, no matter what happened before it, an early 3-pointer in the second half would be all we needed to get back into the game and start thinking about winning. Just think about it, if we get the first basket in the second half and it's a 3-pointer, we go from being down 30 to just 27, and it becomes a whole new ball game. That might sound ridiculous to some people, but the speech I'm going to use at halftime is going to motivate these kids to do something special in the second half; it'll make them believe we can do this; and it's going to happen! I'm going to tell them about a time in tee-ball when my team was down two runs in the 1st inning and came back to win. So, it can happen! 2, 30, whatever; they're both multiples of the same number, right? So, yeah, we've got our opponent right where we want them and feel extremely confident going forward, because we're going to win this game, and even if we don't, we will!"
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