If you don't prepare, you cannot be brief, because you don't know what the key points are. You can be too brief," McCormack said, quoting the French philosopher Blaise Pascal, who said, "I would have written you a shorter letter if I had more time." "To be concise and clear, it's a balance of being clear and concise.
You're thinking 'he's an idiot, where did he go to school?'" McCormack said, calling those 600 words the "elusive 600." Tendency #2: Underpreparing "You're hearing what he's saying but you're thinking other things. This means if your presentation isn't on target, people's minds have 600 leftover words floating around their brain, and typically they will start to think about other things. People speak 150 words a minute, but people can process 750 words a minute. Trim the less essential information, and keep only the essential components. To overcome this, think about all of the things you can talk about on a topic. They will be able to focus on your point, and the message. And people will hear your message if you say less. It's possible to overcome the three tendencies that keep people from being brief.
As a result, everyone must adapt to that and learn how to be brief, he said. This means that people have low attention spans, and their brains are weakening because they're consuming so much information. So when you look at the world around you, the mind is really, really burdened," McCormack said. We're drinking from a proverbial fire hose. It's a constant consumption of information. "By that I mean it could be television, radio, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. But most of the possessions, you are going to have to find a way to incorporate him to get him to create.People spend about 8 hours a day consuming media. ‘‘A lot of times coming down the stretch of games like, maybe you can use a play coming out of a timeout, maybe you can use him as a decoy, maybe you do something. ‘‘Zach, last year being my first year, he had to carry an enormous load,’’ Donovan said. He no longer has to carry the pressure of ballhandler, facilitator and shooter at the same time. The biggest benefactor of DeRozan’s late-game decision-making is LaVine. Not many opposing defenses can do that as effectively. They were blitzing and double-teaming LaVine and DeRozan all night and have the personnel to recover and rotate when the ball did swing. The Warriors have the top defense in the league for a reason. It was just a bad night at the office for LaVine and DeRozan, and that won’t happen often.Īs for the game against the Warriors, you can throw it out the window. The strategy generated open looks in the last four games of the trip, especially in victories against the Clippers, Lakers and Nuggets, and the loss to the Trail Blazers was the result of a second-half meltdown. It’s different being able to be on the same team as them.’’Īnd don’t expect things to change as long as Vucevic is out, either. I was on that other end last year and years prior. ‘‘And once they get going, it’s real hard to stop them. ‘‘We know Zach and DeMar, they have their chance to break out,’’ teammate Derrick Jones Jr. It was Basketball 101, and DeRozan was the professor. Throw help at him, like the Nuggets did several times, and he can find open teammates, like he did LaVine for a three-pointer.
He makes smarter decisions and turns the ball over less in crucial moments, and his mid-range game is a headache for any defense because he can get shots in or out of the paint and can draw fouls. It’s not that LaVine can’t handle that - he has shown he can - but DeRozan is better at it. In the last five minutes, however, it was DeRozan who often had the ball in his hands and played decision-maker. LaVine got a lot of the looks in the first half of the fourth quarter. ‘‘One of us is gonna get a good look or create a play for somebody.’’ ‘‘They’ve gotta pick either me or him,’’ guard Zach LaVine said after the Bulls’ victory Friday against the Nuggets in Denver. Never fear, though, because DeRozan was there. Without Vucevic, however, that option was off the table. Donovan calls it playing with gravity, which means defenders are pulled in the direction of the danger, and Vucevic is still dangerous from outside if left alone. Vucevic has struggled with his shot this season, but he’s well-versed in the art of playmaking, whether it’s dribble-handoffs, pick-and-roll or pick-and-pop.
With center Nikola Vucevic sidelined on the Bulls’ just-concluded five-game road trip after a positive COVID-19 test, that meant coach Billy Donovan had to get creative with his offense, especially late in games. The Bulls have been making sure not to repeat history. No, his third season with the Spurs showed the rest of the NBA what DeRozan already knew: that his talents as a playmaker and facilitator were somewhat wasted with the Raptors. Forward DeMar DeRozan’s 6.9 assists per game last season didn’t happen by accident.