Alter strategies and tactics, but never your principles.
Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.
Too many players are so afraid to do anything that they seldom venture to do anything.
Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.
Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.
False teammates are like our shadows. They keep close to us when we are all walking in the sunshine, but they are gone the instant we just go into the shade, let alone the darkness.