Do THIS If You Want To Reach Your Basketball Goals.

Do you want to know why you haven't achieved your goals when it comes to basketball yet? The simple reason is because you haven't made yourself valuable enough to have those things yet. The thing separating you from more playing time, from having a bigger role, from putting up better numbers for making the team or for making it to the next level, or whatever your goals may be, is the value that you bring to the floor. Valuable players get rewarded with those achievements. So if you want to have those things, your focus needs to be on becoming the most valuable player possible, which is exactly what we're going to talk about right now. If you commit to doing these three things at a high level, it'll open up countless opportunities for you and it will completely transform your basketball career and help you to achieve those goals that you have for yourself. These things are simple, but when you do them consistently at a high level, so many more opportunities will open up for you. Let's get into it. So when I talk about value or being valuable, really what I mean by that is, how much do you impact winning? How valuable are you for your team winning? Right. Coaches, we look at, like, the process of this. Coaches want to win games, and so therefore they're going to prioritize giving opportunities to the players who give them the best chance of winning those games. Right? And this is an important thing to understand. It might seem like common sense, but it's an important thing to understand because a lot of players don't go about it that way, right? For example, they'll get on the court and, you know, their immediate thought is like, okay, you know, how do I hunt my shots? Am I going to get my opportunities? When can I take my next shot? Am I open here? Am I not open here? And everything becomes about themselves and it becomes intrinsic, right? And that's, that's not only their main focus, but is their only focus. And they lose track of what the actual goal should be on the court, which is, how do I put my team in the best position to win games? Because that ultimately is going to be the key for opening up every single opportunity that you want, want in the game of basketball is how much do you contribute to winning? And so that needs to be at the forefront of your mind. Now, what I'm not saying is, I'm not saying for you to, you know, not shoot the ball or to not hunt your own shots, to not be aggressive. What I'm saying is that it needs to come through the lens of how do I make sure that what I'm doing puts My team in the best position to be successful. Right. The first area we're going to talk about and we'll go through three areas right here. And I think the third one is probably, I don't know if I said the most important, but probably the most crucial to understand. But this first one, I think is a really important thing. And it kind of goes to the point I just made, which is you have to look to hunt A plus shots for your team. Right? Again, a lot of players are going out there and they're thinking about, how do I hunt the best shot for me, how do I hunt my shots? And when you do that, that might not be the best shot for your team in that given possession. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't right there. The more often you can contribute to your team getting the best possession or getting the best shot on that possession, the more valuable you are as an offensive player. Okay, so we can think about it this way, right? Making the extra pass. So you might have a defender closing out to you and you could, you could shoot that shot. But you know, if you make a quick extra pass to your team in the corner, they're going to have a better shot, a more open shot, or maybe they're a better shooter than you, or they just hit one. And so getting them the ball when they're open is going to lead to probably a better look for your team. And so players who are truly concerned with winning and who really add value when it comes to putting their team in a position to win by hunting those best shots are going to make that extra pass. Right? Even if it means, again, one less shot for them. In the grand scheme of things, if what you just did contributes to your team, like being better or having a better chance of winning, then again, you're going to get more opportunities going forward. You're going to get more playing time, you're going to have a bigger role, there's going to be more entrusted to you because you made the right decision in that moment that put your team in a better position to be successful. Right? So another area that I see a ton is players will drive and they'll just. They'll basically put their head down and they already predetermined, hey, I'm going to go shoot this layup. No matter what happens, they'll still be on the perimeter. But they, if they put the ball, if they put the ball on the floor, they're going to the rim and they're going to shoot it. Which is fine if you're open, but but also you have to understand, hey, if I don't have this layup, it's because the help is rotated over, meaning they had to leave somebody else to get here. So if your thought becomes, hey, I'm going to go hunt my layups, but if there's help there, I know somebody's open, so I'm going to look to kick the ball. And you are start to become a willing person who's going to drive and kick. You're going to create opportunities for your team, probably open shots for your team. And again, that adds a level of value to, to what you can do as an offensive player and doesn't even have to revolve around you personally scoring the basketball by you making that decision that you're going to pass up a shot that might be a B level shot for an A level shot for your teammate that brings value to your team because you're getting a higher quality of shot. So what you have to understand, what players have got to understand, is that if you want to be successful, chase team success. Because if you help create more team success, it's going to lead to more opportunities for you. Again, coaches are going to prioritize giving opportunities to players who help to bring team success, right? Who foster team success. And so if that's your goal, if you chase after that, you're going to find that everything else is going to follow that. Okay? But again, if you go out there and your thought is, how do I go get mine? How do I make sure that I get my shot, this possession right here, then you're going to miss that, right? And again, that's really the first step in becoming more valuable. And again, those achievements, the goals that you have, are going to follow after value. So become valuable and be willing to create an A plus shot for your team and get out of that mindset of thinking about yourself first. So that's the first thing, the second thing, I think this is really, really important and I don't really hear people talk about this, but great players and valuable players finish possessions. And so we can look at this on both sides of the ball. But simply put, the most valuable players are players who can help their team win the possession battle. So the more often that your team has the ball and the less often the other team has the ball, the more opportunities you're going to have to score and the less the, the, the less opportunities they're going to have to score. So winning that possession battle, winning possessions for your team is super valuable, super important. So we can look at it like loose balls, right? Are you diving on the floor? Are you doing everything you can to sell out and go get that basketball? 50, 50 basketball. So you go up and it's either you or it's a person on the other team. Are you winning that 50, 50 ball the majority of the time? Are you treating a 50, 50 ball more like a 75, 25 basketball, right? Like those, those are kind of the simple things right there. Super important that we. That that's your focus, is going out there and winning those possessions right there. You have to make a commitment that you're going to do whatever it takes to win that possession for your team. And that's got to be something that you're able to maintain throughout an entire game, right? It's called competitive stamina. Anybody can compete hard for a little bit. Anybody can compete hard for a quarter. Anybody can compete hard for two quarters. Do you have enough competitive stamina that you can make that same commitment to win every loose ball, to win every possession that you can for four straight quarters? If you do, that's an insanely valuable trait that you have. And again, so many things you're going to follow after that, and you're going to be prioritized with playing time, with opportunities, because you're able to have. You have that competitive stamina and you're able to win those possessions for your team right there. So you've got to make that commitment and value is going to follow that. Likewise, on offense, we can look at it from this perspective of finishing possession. So finish layups, make shots. Like be a shot maker, right? That's the other aspect of things where if you can finish possession of the offensive ends by again, either finishing those layups or being able to, hey, if, let's say going back to the first point, if your teammate creates an A plus shot for you, can you make that shot? You consistently make those shots. That's also on the other end of the floor. Finishing possessions goes with that as well. So going back to kind of what we mentioned, so much of this is about your level and your desire to compete. So do you make a commitment that every time you go on the floor, you're going to compete harder than anybody else? Because that's one thing that you can always control. You're not going to control making shots all the time. You're going to have games where every shot's going to feel good. You're going to miss them. And that's just how basketball works. Like, you miss shots sometimes, right? And that, that can't affect the other stuff, right? If you're still making that commitment that you're going to out compete everybody, you're going to create a lot of value just because you're going to win those loose balls. And if you get to the point where nothing else matters to you except for winning that possession, you're going to find that you're going to start winning more possessions, right? A lot of players think that like, oh, you know, if I'm not, you know, 610 with the 40 inch vertical and I'm not going to go win these loose balls, like no, if you actually make a commitment that you're going to go do it, you're going to find that you're going to get it done, right? And I know it might not make a ton of sense, but once you actually start to make that commitment, you'll see like, hey, I just naturally start to end up winning more possessions and that's a super important thing. And honestly, when you get to higher levels of basketball, like winning those lose balls, winning those possessions becomes so crucial. And, and as a coach, you're going to put players on the floor, you're going to give them the opportunities if you know they're going to win you possessions right there. So again, you want those goals, you want to be valuable, win possessions of both ends of the floor. And then the third thing that's really, really important and probably, like I said, probably the most crucial part is be trustworthy. So coaches are going to play players who they trust. They're going to give opportunities to players that they trust. Coaches are going to recruit players that they look at and say, hey, I can, I think I can trust that person to be able to help me win games. That's what it's going to take if you want to be someone who has those opportunities. Again is you have to be trustworthy. So what I mean by that is you need to be counted on to do your job every time. So we look at defense, be in the right spot, be in the right position and be there on time, right? So if you know that you're supposed to be in help in, at, you know, in this certain spot, first of all, are you there consistently and are you there on time consistently? Can you be trusted to do what you're supposed to do? If you can't be, you're not going to play, you're not going to be given opportunities because you don't bring value on that, on that aspect, right? So can you be trusted to do your job defensively? Right there Be able to win your matchup. So if you, if it's you and the, and the guy in front of you, are you winning that matchup? Defensively, are you doing your job? Are you saying, hey, I'm going to make sure this guy's not going to beat me, right? Is that your thought? Is that how you approach things? And can you consistently do that on the defensive end of the floor? You can't be a liability on defense. You're a liability in defense. Nothing's going to matter. You're not going to play. You're not going to be given opportunities. No one's recruiting you like. Nothing is going to follow you if you're a liability. So be trustworthy, do your job, and do it consistently and on time. Offensively, do you know where you're supposed to be? Do you make the right reads? You make the right decisions? Going back to the first point, do you pass up an okay shot for a great shot for your teammate? Do you make the extra pass? Do you make the kick out when somebody's open and you're not open? Do you, do you prioritize creating the best shot possible for your team every possession? Or does your coach have to worry about you going rogue and shooting a terrible shot because you haven't shot the ball a little bit? You just want to throw one up there. Again, that's not being trustworthy. And when you're not trustworthy, you. You lack value, right? The value doesn't follow after that. You have to be trustworthy. So going with that, too, do you play to your ability consistently? Right. If you're viewed as, let's say your coaches view you as, you know, someone who can score 15 points per game, but you consistently are scoring way less than that. Well, now all of a sudden it's like you're not trustworthy on that end as well. If you're not playing up to what you're capable of doing right there. So that's another thing to think about. And then probably the, one of the biggest things offensively is do you turn the ball over, right? Can you be trusted to protect possessions? Again, going back to that last point, Win possessions. The other part of it is don't lose possessions, right? And you lose possession by turning the basketball over. So can you be trusted to make those decisions as well so that you don't. You don't turn the basketball over, right? So this is probably the port. The, the, the point that, like, encompasses a lot. Like, can you be trusted both by your coaches and your teammates? Because if you can be again, that's where you're going to be given more of everything that you want, right? When it comes to basketball guys, the rich get richer. So when you have these things, more is given to you. If you don't have these things, then nothing is given to you. So you have to focus yourself on becoming the most valuable player possible. And, and again we do that by hunting those great shots for your team, prioritizing how do I get the best shot for my team on this possession right here that might require me to pass up a shot opportunity because someone else on my team has a better shot. When you consistently do that, that that's somebody who brings value to a team right there. Number two is finish possessions, win possessions. Go out there and decide that every loose ball is going to be yours, right? You going to outcompete everybody every time that you're on the floor and then be able to do that for four quarters because not a lot of players can. And when you can, that brings a lot of value to the table as well. And then number three, be trustworthy. Be somebody who's going to do their job, they're going to be in the right spot, they can be counted on to win their their assignment and make good decisions. And when you do those things guys, you become valuable and valuable players are given, are given all those things, right? So again, if your goal is I want to play more, I want more playing time do, then you got to do these things. If you do these things, you're going to play more. I want a bigger role. If you do these things at a very high level, then you're going to be given a bigger role, you want to put a better numbers. This is going to lead to you playing more. You have you being in more positions to have opportunities. If, let's say going back to that finishing possessions point, if you on offense finish possessions, you make your layups, you make your shots when you're open, going to be given more of those opportunities to finish possessions because you can be trusted. Which again goes back to that, to that last point. Like be trustworthy overall. If there's a point you take away, it's got to be that hopefully this helps you guys out, puts you towards those goals that you have for yourself. Make sure you guys click that top link in the description down below to get my free elite perimeter score program. It's going to help you take your game to the next level. I appreciate you for watching. Drop a like subscribe if you're new and leave a comment if you got something from this or if you have a question or takeaway, let me know down below. I'll talk to you soon. Peace.