Winning Isn’t Complicated. It Just Isn’t Easy.
Shawn Jones
DIRECTOR, ATHLETICS
Shawn has 30 years of head basketball coaching experience combined with 11 years as an athletic director. He has coached in Colorado and Texas, and has taken teams to three Final Four tournaments and a state championship. He has seen numerous players of his continue on to compete at the college and professional level of the sport. He is also proud to have seen many of his athletes become high school and collegiate coaches themselves. As director of athletics, Shawn is a key member of Ballogy’s team, driving the company’s athletic strategy, partnerships, coach engagement, and product vision. He has been married to his high school sweetheart for 32 years and they have raised three wonderful children together. Shawn has a passion for player development and the desire to assist coaches with effective, time-saving tools of administering and assessing skill development drills.
I have had a saying for years with my teams… and I don’t know where I got it to give credit to the author, or I would. Obviously I heard it somewhere at a clinic or in a coaching conversation and stole it. So while I can’t take literary ownership, I will take poetic license to use it at my disposal.
“Winning isn’t complicated; it just isn’t easy.”
The literal truth is, winning ISN’T complicated. Identify what the other team does best, take it away; do what you do best, and maximize it, and you win. It sounds so simple… and it is, but then again, it isn’t. Taking away a team’s strength isn’t easy. Maximizing what you do best isn’t easy. But winning, if you do both of those things, is! It is the logical result.
Apply that strategy to anything in life. Losing weight isn’t complicated; it’s just not easy. Getting out of debt isn’t complicated; it’s just not easy. Earning a promotion, raising a family… Life has every competition you can think of, and none of it is complicated; it’s just not easy.
So if it isn’t easy, how do we get to the part where success is not complicated? In sports, it is in the daily grind of skill development. Day in, day out, doing the work in the unseen hours to build a repertoire of skills and abilities that help maximize what you do best and eliminate what your opponent does best. Do the hard work now, so it isn’t complicated later.
Ballogy provides a platform where coaches and athletes can access top tier instruction from experts, assign workouts, assess workouts, and utilize motivating content and rankings to keep them focused and on track. Getting better isn’t complicated; it just isn’t easy. It takes work. However, Ballogy is here to take some of the more difficult aspects out of getting better. Let us do the planning and organization and all you have to do is put in the work. The rest isn’t complicated.