Turn on a trifle

Mark Madsen recalls a lesson he learned from a former Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach

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00:00 I think it can prove to the guys the simple principle of no matter what happens,

00:05 keep on working, keep on fighting because the tide can turn at any moment.

00:09 One of my mentors, Tex Winter, who is really Phil Jackson's right hand man,

00:13 he used to always say it.

00:14 And all of us who played for Tex and Phil, we know what Tex says.

00:18 He says in the game of basketball, everything can turn on a trifle.

00:20 In the NBA, there are 30 point swings.

00:25 And so the key is when you hit adversity, just keep working, keep fighting.

00:28 It's not gonna turn in every single situation, but

00:31 it can turn in a lot of situations.

00:34 And so work and fight and things can happen, things can change.