How To Get Results in Your Training (How To See Your Hard Work Pay Off)

Foreign. Welcome to the Vision Driven Basketball Training podcast. Appreciate you guys tuning in, whether you're an Apple Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, really glad to have you guys here. Gonna hop into it. Got a really loaded episode today, so I'm excited to get going. But first things first, if you're listening on Apple podcasts, really appreciate if you left a review for me and if you're on YouTube, drop a like, make sure you're subscribed if you aren't already. And you know, we'll hop right into it. So there's, there's a few things I want to get into, you know, this week, but the first thing is I want to talk and clarify a little bit on last week because I got a lot of questions about kind of what I was talking about in terms of, you know, your schedule and everything and how you should actually structure your workouts. You know, last week we talked about how, you know, you don't have to be LeBron, you don't have to be great at everything right away. At least you want to make sure that you become great at at least a couple things so that you have skills that could translate onto the court right away. So you can know if you get onto the court, you can do a couple things at a high level. And you know, regardless of where you're playing, who you're playing against, you're going to have a role that you can fill because you're able to do that. So, you know, I want to clarify a little bit on what that means. I got a lot of questions about it, so you should pick, you know, a few skills that you want to become great at. So it might be shooting, ball handling, finishing. We'll say, say those are your skills you want to choose, but what you don't want to do is you don't want to take an all or nothing approach to it. Okay. I think a lot of you guys are really overthinking a little bit too much. A lot of guys are coming at me asking like, oh, should I do this week just shooting and next week just ball handling. And we'll kind of hop in into a little bit of why I don't recommend you do that. But essentially all that you have to do is you just want your training to focus on those skills, but, but you still want to have game like aspects to it. Okay, so if you look at like my NBA player workouts, for example, that's a great example of, you know, what it takes to actually. Or what I mean by making sure that your workouts are Focused on something but also game specific. Right. And all those NBA player workouts, we're usually focusing on, on a, you know, a few skills that that player is known for. Right. But we're translating those into game like movements, game like situations where you're going to have to combine a bunch of different skills. Okay. And you know, your training should be that way too. You know, it can be game like while still focusing on some specific skills. Okay. So you know, for example, Monday might be ball handling mixed in with some, you know, game like moves. Right. So some with like some general moves that simulate, you know, game actions, something like that. Okay. So you might have, you know, you might work on your ball handling, doing maybe some stationary stuff. Then you translate into working on, you know, your between the leg crossover at a different game situations. Maybe going into a shot off that, into a step back, you know, into attacking the rim, into, you know, whatever you want it to be, a spin move maybe. Right. You just want to take what you're doing and make it game like. Okay, so that might be Monday. Tuesday might be shooting with some ball handling. Okay. You might get a lot of spot shots up, some game situation shots, mix in with some ball handling stuff. Okay. That could be your workout. So now you're again, you're working on multiple skills, but those are still a couple of those skills that you want to become great at. Okay. And then Wednesday could be similar to that. Maybe it's more ball handling with some more shooting and then a couple of dribble moves added into that to kind of combine the two of those things. Okay. So again, you want to be creative with how you approach it. And you know, in the perimeter score system, that's kind of what we do where we have some workouts that are more broadly focused. Where we're going to have, you're going to start off, you're going to go into some, you know, basically, essentially it'd be like a structure. Could be you go into your dynamic warm up, then you'll go into form shooting. Then we might go into some light ball handling, then we might do some light finishing, then we might go with a lot of game shooting. Okay, that might be the workout, but then the next day you might have a workout where we're going to go dynamic warm up form shooting, you might have a little bit of light shooting. And then we might go into working strictly on some sort of dribble move. So maybe that's. We're just working on the jab step that day and options out of the jab step, working on the double jab maybe, or working on inverted drag, whatever, but we're going to translate that stuff into game situation. So you're building those game like moves that you can actually use while still developing your ability to handle the basketball, to shoot and to finish. Okay? So we're working on all three of those things, but we're doing it in the context of an actual game situation so that it actually translate for you. So as we progress forward, we're going to continue to kind of ramp up the focus and obviously as you move through it, you should be getting better. So that's what I also say is if you're going to plan out your workouts, make them gradually harder, make them gradually a little bit more detailed as you start to master some of these simple moves. So obviously I recommend you guys check out the perimeter score system, but if you just want to do your own thing, that's how I recommend you would structure whatever sort of program you're going to do is make sure that you have those skills you want to work on, but make sure you design it in a way that you can actually start to work on those skills in a game situation sort of setting. That's how you're gonna see the most results when it comes to actually you in games. And you know, I wouldn't recommend doing a week on, week off thing. It was a question that I got where, you know, guys were asking me, hey, should I do ball handling this week and then shooting next week and then finishing the week after that? No, like I wouldn't recommend doing that. And that's just because, you know, look, at the end of the day, a big mistake players make is that they just do drills that are going to get them better at doing drills. Like they aren't doing drills that are actually going to get them better at playing basketball like in a game. And basically all that means is that your drills, the stuff you're doing, should actually have some sort of way that it's going to translate into the games. Okay. When you're in a game, you're not just going to use one skill at a time, okay? You aren't just going to use your ball handling, you aren't just going to use your shooting, you aren't just going to use your finish finishing, you're not to be able to switch between those three and combine them. You might have to go into a crossover, into a pull up or a crossover into a finish, or you might have to go with a jab into a hesitation sort of Flow into a veer step finish. Like there's a bunch of different things you're gonna have to be able to combine in order to be a successful player. And if you just focus on doing one thing at a time, you're never going to be able to learn how to implement all the skills at the same time. So I recommend you don't do that. I recommend that again, you can have different portions of your workout that are focused on something specific. Maybe you start off with some stationary ball handling, then maybe some spot up shooting, but then at some point you should get into some sort of game like situation shooting. So you know, you're having shooting where you're going off of a crossover into your shot or into a finish. Different stuff like that, where you actually, you know, out on the wing coming off, maybe coming off a ball screen or something like that, where you're actually simulating what you might see in a game so you can put those skills sorted together, you know. And essentially what we do in the perimeter score system is we start off by isolating a certain skill. So we're going to get the footwork down, we're going to get the shot down, whatever it needs to be, we're going to isolate it. So we have the actual technique, the form, the footwork, we have that down. Then we're going to implement that into a game. So maybe working on the turn dribble, we're going to work on that in sort of a stationary setting so we can get the footwork down and the actual movement down. Then once we have that, we're going to translate it into a game situation so that you actually can be able to use that when it comes time to pull it out in a game. And it's not just something that you worked on stationary, but you didn't have any context for when you're going to use it. That's important when it comes to actually developing your skills. So kind of to recap, you know, you want to pick a few skills and work on those most of the time. Okay. So not every workout needs to be just focused on one skill because you use multiple skills in a game, right? So you can use more than one, you can use more than one skill at a time. Essentially, you know, you want to build your workouts up to a point where you can start to do, you know, sort of game situation drills that actually mimic what you're going to see in games. Because again, you don't want to just become better at practicing. You would become better as a basketball player. In games. And the only way you do that is by becoming better at those game situations you're going to see. So, you know, and again, if you look at my NBA player workouts, they're built a lot like that. So where we can take skills and we can implement them into game situation, you know, different drills like that, and that's where you're going to see the results. So, you know, again, if you want something that, you know, I know that was a lot, but if you want something that lays all this out for you step by step, then I highly recommend that you guys check out the perimeter score system. It's not available publicly right now. I'm not promoting it publicly right now. But, you know, if you send me a DM on Instagram, visiondrivenbasketball, then I can hook you up with that at a discount. So, you know, if you guys again, send me a DM on Instagram, then if you're interested, then we get into that where all this stuff I just talked about is already built into it. So all you got to do is follow it. But, you know, moving on from that, a lot of what I want to talk about today comes from a DM that I got a couple days ago. You know, like I always say, guys, you have questions for me, make sure you DM me. Basically, the whole podcast today is just stuff that. That's how I want it to be going forward. I want it to just be stuff that people ask me, because like I said before, there's a lot of things that I get asked about that I can't necessarily always answer back in a DM or in a YouTube comment. So that's the best way to reach me with questions. Because Sometimes, even with YouTube, I get so many comments on YouTube sometimes that sometimes they can start to kind of get lost in the mix. The best way to make sure that I see your question and have the best chance of answering on the podcast, make sure you DM me on Instagram visiondrivenbasketball. So, you know, essentially this player DM me, and he was saying that he struggles to be consistent, he struggles to work hard. So he asked me, you know, how he can push himself every day and how he can have an unmatched work ethic. Those were his words. You know, I'm going to answer this from two different angles, and one of them, I think should be pretty obvious, and the other one is going to kind of give you guys a little bit more practical advice. But, you know, obviously we have to get. I got to get this out of the way first, because if we don't talk about this, then what else the rest of what I talk about doesn't even matter. So, you know, here's the first thing. There's nothing that I can tell you. There's nothing that anybody out there can tell you. Nothing that the best trainer in the world can tell you that is going to make you really care about basketball. And, you know, essentially what I mean by that is that at the end of the day, if you want to be good at basketball, you're going to put the work in, because that's the only way to become good at it. There's no other way to do that. So if you really care about it and you want to be good at it, you're going to. You're going to have the drive to actually do the work. And, you know, the thing is, if you don't actually have the drive to do the work, then you have to kind of ask yourself, like, do I really care? Like, do I really care about the game of basketball if I don't actually want to do the work? Because to me, it's like, so if, you know, the only way to be. To get where I want to get to, I want to be great at the game of basketball, the only way to do that is to do the work, okay? You have to ask yourself, is that worth it? Is it worth the pain of having to do workouts? Is it worth the pain of having to get up and go outside? Is it worth the pain of having to do all that? If you can say yes, then chances you really do care about it. But if it's still no, then chances are you're kind of lukewarm about it. So ask yourself that, first of all, because again, nothing I can say can change that for you. That's something you have to be honest with yourself about. And, you know, to me, the other thing is that it's so you can tell me, you know, coach, like, I want to be great, I want to do this, I want to do that. But at the end of the day, it's all about your actions. It's not about your words at all. Okay, Whatever. What you say doesn't matter. What you do does matter. And, you know, nobody cares about what you say because people say a lot of things, okay? People say a lot of things. And, you know, a lot of times it's become easy for us to kind of tune people out because people will just say whatever. People say whatever to get views on Instagram. They say whatever. To get likes, they say whatever. To get followers. That's what people do these days. So by you telling me that you want something, but you don't put in any of the action to actually get it, I'm looking at the actions that you're doing. Okay? That's what I care about. You know, you can again, like, and I'll see this with players, too. It's like, players will say, like, oh, I want to be great. But then they won't get in the gym. They're like, hey, coach, you know, like, I really want to have a great season next year. And then it's like, they won't. They won't get in the gym for it, though. There's always some sort of excuse, like, oh, coach, can't make it today. Got homework. Can't make it today. Coach got to do this. Got it. Like, I'm not saying stuff doesn't happen in life. Some stuff doesn't pop up, but when it's repeated, you're always having an excuse for why you can't do something. Then. Then the question comes, like, you know, dude, like, do you. Do you really care? Because the. The case made that for you. It's. It's more of a convenience thing. And I think that's what this whole, you know, this whole quarantine pandemic thing has. Has proven is like, you know, who does. Who plays basketball out of convenience and who plays it because they actually care about it, right? Who. Who was playing basketball before because all their friends are playing, they could get into a gym every day with their friends and play basketball, and it was cool. Got to go on bus rides with your teammates, got to stop at restaurants after the game. That was the fun part. Now that that isn't happening is. Is that lack of convenience, Is that an excuse for you to not work as hard? You know, that's. That's the kind of. The question again, you have to ask yourself. So, you know, I actually, I had a couple. I had a couple conversations this week with. With players who, you know about. About guys who. Who post their workouts, right? Guys who post when they're in the gym, not necessarily their workouts, but guys who. Who always are, like, updating when they're in the gym. You know, the guys who are posting pictures on Instagram of them, you know, after a workout. Hashtag, don't sleep. You know, all that. All that stuff. Right? And I kind of wanted to relate this, too, because I think this. This kind of has two sides to it. You know, I'm Sure. A lot of you guys know Drew Hanlon, who is, you know, one of the top NBA trainers in the world. You know, I mean, he's. He's fantastic at what he does. One of. One of the guys that I look up to that I've learned a ton from over. I mean, since I was in middle school, you know, I've been. I've been learning from Drew. So, I mean, he's really one of the goats. And, you know, I remember hearing him talk about how he wasn't posting on his Snapchat or his Instagram about, you know, when he was in the gym anymore because he used to do it all the time. And, you know, he was talking about how, like, for him, it's like, you know, I'm in the gym every day. Like, even if I don't post it, I'm in the gym every day from 6am to 9pm with my. With my guys. Like, we get in there at 6. I'm working with guys from 6am to 9pm every day. And to him it was like, you know, it's not even about posting it because, like, guys know I'm there. Like, you. You know I'm there, right? So, you know, for a lot of players, it sometimes can feel like their highlight is going to the gym or the court to work out and then posting about it. That's like, they're like, they might not even get in any. Any sort of work, but it's like they can go show everybody. Oh, I was in the gym today, right? Like, and you know, a guy, another guy like that, Damian Lillard, who. Who kind of said the same thing. You know, people, you know, obviously, you know, Damian Lillard has this whole rap thing too, where, you know, he. He's putting. Put a couple albums so far. I think he's pretty decent too. And I think. I think gets better every. Every album that he's dropped so far, he's only dropped two or three albums. I think every album's gotten better. So, you know, but. But with him, he. People were like, typical. People do is like, oh, dame, you know, we always see you rapping, but we never see videos of you in the gym working. Like, what's going on with that? And so people trying to kind of call him out, be like, yo, you like, aren't you supposed to be a basketball player? Like, why don't you ever post your workouts? And he was saying that like, that. I just don't do that. Like, I go to the gym and I work and you see my Results on the. On the court. And obviously, we see Dame, just like I said, his rap gets better every time his hit, every year, he gets better on the court. And, you know, we don't see him. We don't see it necessarily. But what we do see is the result after we see what he does when the season starts, we see the results then. Okay, so, you know, those guys understand that in order to. To see results, that they need to put the time in. It isn't just a show thing, right? It isn't just like, what people see. Again, what. I kind of relay this back to words, right? Like, you can portray something on Instagram, but if your actions don't back that up, then eventually you're gonna get exposed. Eventually, when the lights turn on, we actually see if you were putting in the work. Everyone's gonna know whether or not that was true. It's the same thing with words, right? You can tell me that you're working, you can tell me that you're doing this, that. But if the actions don't back that up, at some point, you're gonna get exposed. Okay? So again, you have to be. You have to understand that you saying you want something doesn't matter. Only thing that matters is you actually doing it. And, you know, I'm not saying I want to be clear about this. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with posting your workouts. There's. To each their own. Like, some people do it, obviously. You guys see LeBron and he's posting about his workouts all the time. And like I said, in my opinion, that's the goat right there. That's the best ever do it. And, you know, a lot of other guys post their workouts on Instagram. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that at all. You know, one of my guys actually in the perimeter score system shout out to ej. I mean, he's posting his stuff all the time. And the thing with him, though, is that I know that he's working, right? And the kid can hoop. So I know that he really is putting in the work. The issue becomes when it's about posting and not about actually doing the work, right? You can have both. But if you decide that you just care about the post, well, then at that point, it becomes, what side of the line are you on? So you got to make sure that you actually evaluate yourself. Are you really doing what you're saying you're doing, or is it something else? Okay, because again, we will know. We will know at some point when we act when we get, when we all get to see it, okay? And you know, so for me, all that to say when I get DMs about, you know, how to have unmatched work ethic, to me it's like there is no how to have that. You either have that or you don't. Okay? You either want it or you either want to be great at basketball or you don't want to. And if you don't want to, you're not gonna have the work. And listen, there's nothing wrong with that, okay? It's not for everybody. Like, not everybody is gonna do that. That's. There's. If you have something else that you rather would do, nothing wrong with that at all. I say go for it. But if you really do say that you want this, then that work ethic should be a byproduct of you actually having those goals. So that's kind of what I want to transition into though is because I feel like this is another topic that guys struggle with and you know, and we talk about this all the time though, is having a clear goal, a clear vision of what you want, because that itself is what can drive you, right? I think when I get a question like this, it's a lot of it has to do with this guy probably doesn't have an actual clear vision of what he wants to get out of the game of basketball. He probably likes playing, he probably wants to be better than his friends, he probably wants to playing on his school team, but he probably doesn't have any sort of like strict definition of what he wants. And we're actually going to get into this more down the line. I got another great question about kind of goals and all that stuff, which I think is really going to be an interesting topic to talk about. So, you know, but essentially what you got to ask yourself is first of all, you got to have an end goal with basketball or at least a long term goal. Okay? It doesn't have to be the end goal, but it has to be a long term goal, right? You have to ask goals, you know, what do I want? Like what I want to get out of this down, like long term, what is, what is my goal? And once you have that, then, you know, you need to ask yourself if the way that you're preparing, the way that you're training right now is putting you in a position to get that goal, and if the answer is no, then you either need to change your goal, make it smaller, or you need to change the way that you work, okay? Because Again, you can't have I, you can't have one or the other. It's got to be both. You know, if you have that big goal, you got to have the work ethic to match it. And if you don't have the work ethic to match it, you can't have the big goal because it's just not realistic, okay? It's a daydream, all right? It's not an actual dream that you might actually have the chance of achieving. It's a daydream. So ask yourself if you want to push yourself, if you want to be motivated. You know, I hate that word, motivated, but at this point, you're asking me for motivation. And again, that goes back to the thing. This is why it's not motivation driven basketball, okay? Like, I've had people who've asked me to, like, do, like, hey, coach, can you post a motivational speech on, on, on YouTube or Instagram or something like that? And like, I'm not completely against that. Like, I know, like, you know, there, there are a lot of guys who, who do that sort of stuff that I think it's cool. But for me, it's like, I, I, I'm just, I'm just not a big fan because to me, I feel like a lot of that stuff is like, it just wears off so quickly. I think when you're intrinsically driven, right? I think it's just, it's just you're, you're going to work better than if you have to be motivated by a video or something like that. Again, not to say that there's, that that's necessarily a bad thing, you know, to watch motivational videos. I don't think it is. I think there's a lot of stuff you can learn from that, but at the same time, like, you shouldn't have to rely on it. Okay? So, you know, it's, you know, either you have to change the way that you work at something or you change your goal, okay? That, that's what it comes down to in the day. And, you know, you, you need to ask yourself, you know, what can I do that can help my team win and how do I develop those things at a high level? Okay? If you do that again, you're going to be another, you're going to have a role that's very, very difficult for coaches to replace. You're going to have to play because guys are going to, like, coaches need guys like that who can, who have skills that help the team win and can do those skills at a high level. Okay? And the only way to get those things is to put in the necessary amount of work. There's no other way around it, okay? So once you recognize that this is my goal, this is how I get to that goal, and the only way I actually achieve those steps is by putting in the necessary amount of work. The work ethic is gonna take care of itself at that point. And if it doesn't, again, ask yourself, do I actually care about this? Because if it doesn't, then that's probably the answer. Okay? So you know, you've gotta answer that yourself. And I know this might seem a little bit vague, right? But it should be though, because this is something that is a, this is an individual thing. Like, you have to be able to answer this qu. These questions for yourself. Because at the end of the day, your coaches, your teammates, they're on their. They're on their own journey. Obviously you guys are on a team, but they, Each member of that team has to be able to carry their own weight. And that, that comes from each individual person being able to have goals that they actually chase after. So then when they all come together, they make each other better. And that's how you have a great team right there. Okay? So that's the question you gotta ask for yourself. And if you decide, you know, not to, then only person you're really harming is yourself in the long run. So. And I got another question on Instagram from my guy, Flame Hoops. And you know, he was asking, he was asking, you know, does. Does hard work pay off? And you know, we talked a little bit about this, me and him, but, you know, to me, this is a multi layered question. And actually it's an interesting conversation to have too. I think there's a lot of ways that this can go, but the answer is yes and no. Okay, answer is yes and no. So I think that yes, hard work does pay off, but also it's not just hard work that pays off. Like, it's not only about the hard work, okay? Because listen, you can work as hard as you want to. You know, you can work harder than everybody else, but you might not be set. You might not be seven feet tall, okay? You might not be, you know, whatever, 260 pounds with a 40 inch vertical. You just, you just might not be okay. And you might lose somebody who is right. And all that hard work, you can still lose. So if we look at it surface level, like, no, it does not always pay. Like, Harvey does not always pay off. So FIBA estimated that there were 450 million basketball players around the world, okay? That's their. Their estimate. So we'll go ahead and we'll just assume that that's the number, right? Keep it easy for us. 450 million basketball players around the world, NBA players are the top 450 of those guys. So that would mean that you would need to be in the top 0.000001% of basketball players in the world to even make an NBA roster. Just to get. Just to be the 15th guy on the roster who's never going to play, you need to be in the top 0.000001% of those guys. That's five zeros out to that decimal, which is just an unreal number right there, okay? So just think about how great you have to be to be in that number. So obviously, look amongst those 450 guys. How, like, how much different, talent wise, are we talking, right? I mean, talent wise, aside from the top guys, you know, guys like LeBron, Kobe guys, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, guys who were the very, very top. The talent difference between those 450 is not. That is not that much, right? There's not that much of a difference in talent. And also, in order to get to that, that 450, you got to work really hard. Now, some guys work harder than others. Again, a guy like LeBron, Kobe, Michael Jordan, those guys, those guys were just on a whole different level in terms of the way that they worked, okay? But all these guys in the NBA with, you know, with the exception of a few, work really ridiculously hard to get where they are. Ridiculously hard, okay? Harder than most people work at it. And obviously it shows. That's how they're in the top 450, okay? But, you know, so what separates those guys? How. What separates a guy, you know, an upper echelon guy, we'll take. We'll take a guy like, you know, like a Chris Middleton, right? What separates him from a guy who. Who obviously, Chris Middleton, All Star, you know, great player for the Bucks, you know, obviously the Bucks, one of the best teams in the NBA. What separates a guy like that from, you know, a guy who's. Who's the, you know, 9th or 10th guy on a team? Well, to me, and you hear a lot of guys talk about this, but a lot of it has to do with. With the way that these guys work, okay? Because guys all work hard. But what separates guys when they get to the league is what guys are meticulous with, how they prepare, what guys are incredibly Detailed with what they put into their bodies, right? Which guys are still, regardless of any success that they have, still not satisfied with what they've gotten so far. Those tend to be the guys who end up having long, successful careers and becoming the best because they're obsessed with how they work. It's not just about the hard work, because all those guys work hard, but it's also about how they approach the game. You know, what. What approach they take. And essentially, I mean, that's why you see these guys with these massive team. Like, you know, LeBron has a team of guys, Kawhi Leonard has a team of guys, right? Where you've got, you know, you've got your strength guy, you got your new nutrition guy, you got your chef, you got your, you got your whatever, like, you got obviously your whole business side of the team. You got guys to take care of everything for you so that you can just focus on making. On making sure that the product you put on the floor is the best it can possibly be. Right? That's why these guys are willing to invest. Obviously, it's not cheap to invest in a full time chef or to invest in a full time strength coach, right? But these guys understand that if they want to be the best out of the 450 million players in the world, they have to be very, very smart and detailed in how they prepare. Okay? So if you want to be great, take that, take that sort of example of make sure the work you're putting in is smart. It can't just be that you're working hard because a lot of guys are working hard, but it's also about the type of work that you put in. Okay? So, you know, and at the same time, me saying all that, I actually, I do believe that hard work does pay off all the time. I think, I think there, there is, if you look at it a certain way, hard work will always pay off. And here's why. So learning to work hard and to dedicate yourself to something is, is, you know, being able to dedicate your focus, your time, your energy into something that, that in itself is a skill and one of the most valuable skills you can have in life. Okay? Not only is that going to help you in basketball to become the best you can possibly be, but it's literally going to help develop the mindset that it's going to take to succeed in anything that you do in life. Okay? And that goes far outside of just basketball. But obviously we can develop that through the game of basketball. So I think that working hard at It. Even if you're doing the wrong things, even if the drills you're doing aren't perfect, even if the way you do things isn't perfect, just by you working hard and being committed to something, you're going to develop skills that are going to help you to succeed. And I think what it comes next to, and actually this is something I'll be talking about in the mental toughness masterclass with my guys, is you can't, like, not be. Not settling for. Not settling for doing things that aren't as great as it can possibly be. Essentially, you don't want to just be like, oh, you know what? I'm going to do this thing, or might not get me results, whatever. I'll just do it. You know, the guys who are the best, the guys are saying, no, I got to figure out what the best thing to do is. I'm going to do the research, I'm going to put the time in and I'm going to focus myself to doing this. Guys who are obsessed with the process, obsessed with maximizing the time that they have, those are the guys who are the most successful down the line. But even if you don't do that, even if you just work hard at something, you don't work smart at it. You don't. There is nothing that you do that necessarily I even just talked about now you just work hard. You're going to develop the ability to translate that into other areas of your life, and you become a more successful person in general. Okay? And so for me, you know, that's why I've never understood people who can't get into sports. And, you know, I get it. Like, everyone has their thing. I don't like to draw or paint, not my thing. I don't like to hunt or fish, not my thing. Like, plenty of people are into those things. And obviously you can learn how to work hard through those things, too. I'm not saying that you don't have to work hard to be good at painting or to be good at hunting, whatever, okay? But what I'm saying is that sports are just different because you're thrown into the fire, right? Obviously, basketball, it's a team setting. You've told how to work with your teammates, how to motivate your teammates, how to take coaching, how to be teachable, right? How to. All these skills that you need. I think that when people don't. Aren't involved in sports, it's. They're missing out on a crucial area of development in life. Okay? And, you know, the. The I mean, like, think about the ability to bring 100% every day, right? Whether or not you feel like it or not, you got to bring that same sort of effort every day. Even if you just lost by 20 the night before and you got a 9am practice on a Saturday the next morning, like, you got to be able to come and bring it the next day. That's, that's a valuable skill to have when, you know, if you're, you're, you know, you're in business and, you know, you, you know, you lose a sponsorship deal that, that was worth $2 million, you got to get up the next day, you got to do the same. You got to keep working, right? It doesn't stop just because something bad happened, okay? You don't, you don't get to quit. You don't get to feel bad. You just got to get up and you got to do it. You know, the, I mean, that takes mental toughness to be able to do, and it takes dedication and, you know, that mindset that you're gonna go, that you're gonna, you know, reach towards a goal and you're never gonna give up, regardless of the adversity that you face. That is something that translates to every area of life. And the guys who have that are the ones who are successful, which is why you see all these athletes who go on to become successful in other areas of life. You know, he said guys like, you know, I was listening to Sean Merriman, who played in the NFL, was a Pro Bowler, great player for the Chargers. I mean, he's got his, his whole clothing brand now. Like, you got guys who, who go out and become entrepreneurs in these other sort of areas. And, you know, I mean, look at LeBron. LeBron is going to become a. He's gonna be. He's gonna be a billionaire. Like, he's, he's gonna be a billionaire. He already has a billion dollar deal with Nike. The only question is what, when exactly will he cross a billion dollars? Right? He learned those sort of business skills through the game of basketball. And because of that, when he retires, I mean, I don't think it's out of the question. Say LeBron's going to be an NBA owner one day if he wants to do that. Like LeBron, like, there's so, there's so much on, on the table he's gonna be able to do. And a lot of these NBA guys are the same exact way, right? A lot of these guys, when they retire are going to have things set up for them. I Know, Stephen is another guy who's like that. Like, you got guys who set themselves up. Tom Brady, look at him as well, you know, with the whole TB12 thing. I mean, that's a guy who is going to make a massive impact. And it all starts with. With the skills he developed through the sport of football. Okay. So I think sports are so crucial when it comes to helping guys develop those things. And, you know, I, you know, I talked about it on the podcast before. I believe it was episode two, talking about how to play at the college level, kind of my backstory and everything. But, you know, since, you know, my goal Since I was 12 years old was to play college basketball, and, you know, for a lot of reasons that. That. A lot of those reasons were out of my control, I did. I wasn't able to do that. And, you know, again, if you want to know more about that, specifically, check out podcast two. I believe it's podcast two. Check that out. And he. And so for me, it became like, how do I view that now? Okay. Even though all the hard work that I put in initially didn't pay off, right. My payoff, I thought was, I want to go play in college. Like, that's what I want. Right? That's why. That's why I put the work in. But that didn't happen. So you, like, do I look at that as the hardware didn't pay off? Well, no, because then all this stuff happened. I have people who are like, hey, can you. Can you. Can you train me? Right? I had people who came up to me out of nowhere. I'm like, well, I mean, I know a lot from. From my own training. I've worked with a lot of great trainers. I've worked with a lot of great players before, so. And obviously through my own career, like, I know. I know how to, you know, I know how I need to help guys approach the game, and I know it can help guys with that. So all of a sudden, the skills that I learned through my own playing career, which I didn't get to my goal, those skills help me propel me into what I'm doing now. Right? So now all the stuff that I learned, I can help give to you guys as well. So now from what I see, that hard work has 100% paid off, 100% paid off. And just in a way that I didn't expect, way that I didn't see. Also, that's just the actual skill part of it. If I had done something else, like, if this whole Visionary Basel thing wasn't A thing, I know that I would be doing something else and I would be able to succeed at that too. Because the skills that I had to learn, being able to lose, being able to lose my starting spot, still work hard to get it back. That stuff that is real, I mean, that's real life stuff you got to learn right there, okay? So I know that whatever adversity I face, as long as I stick to what I'm doing, I can get past it. And not only that, I'm going to use it to make me better, okay? Because down the line now, I'm going to be more and more confident in my ability to overcome anything that comes my way. So that in itself, the mindset that you develop through the game of basketball, through working hard at it, I mean, that right there, that's something that translates to everything. I mean, your ability to be like, you know what? I'm going to get up at 5 o' clock in the morning so I can go to the gym before school starts. Then when school's, I'm gonna go lift, right? Then at night I'm gonna get up some more shots. Like that work ethic translates to every other area of life. You know, when I've got to be up till 4 o' clock in the morning editing something like it is what it is. I gotta be up at 9 o' clock the next morning to film something else, whatever, like what I can. I mean, that's something that, that developed through the game. Basketball, okay? And you know, that's why I think sports is so incredibly important for society, but especially for schools, right? I think, I think having sports in schools is just such an important thing because, you know, we have. That's where kids learn those life skills, right? It's not, you know, learning is not just through the classroom. I had a good talk with my cousin yesterday actually about, you know, learning and you know, because he was talking about how he's trying to read more because he wanted to become, you know, he wanted to actually enjoy learning. And that's such a great point. Once you start to actually find things you enjoy doing and you enjoy learning about, you actually can become great at learning, right? And I think sports, that's the avenue. A lot of kids don't really care much about school. They don't really care about their math class or their English class. They do care about basketball, though. So you can teach those kids life skills through sports, through basketball. That's going to help them just as much as any math class is going to help them. Okay? When we talk about them actually being successful down the line. So. Which, I mean, again, it's sad to see a lot of these athletic programs getting shut down at the collegiate level because of the whole coronavirus thing, you know. I know, I know. The University of Cincinnati just. Just, you know, closed down their men's soccer program. Central Michigan just shut down their track and field program. Eastern Carolina just. Just canceled their swimming and diving and their tennis teams. Like, it's. It's. It really is. Is sad to see because sports are such an important part of. Of society. So, you know, again, we've talked about this before, but, like, people will be like, oh, man, it's just sports. Like, why do people care? Like, you guys can't go. Like, you guys need your sports. Sports is such a massive part of life. The competition, the skills that you learn. It's not just about sports. So everything else associated with it. So, you know, for me, I think the ultimate thing I can leave you with is that, you know, there will always be something that you gain when you work hard. It might not be exactly what you thought you wanted or thought that you would get, but there will always be something that you gain when you have the ability to work hard at something. So I got another question from Ryan, and this is actually, I really want to talk about this. This is a great question that I got. And I think that this is another thing that can really help out a lot of guys. So, you know, he asked me, he said. He said, question, you know, what do you think the difference is between being real to yourself and underachieving? So, for example, I want to play in college. I want to play college basketball, but I feel like I'm not good enough to play. So I'm trying to get into coaching after high. Am I being real to myself or am I underachieving? And this is a great question, and it's an honest question, too, which I appreciate. So, you know, you have. I'll approach them from a couple different angles. The first thing off the bat is that you need to have goals that motivate you. Okay? You have to find a balance. But, you know, the difference is you need to have. Find a balance between extremely high goals and actual reality. Okay? I think a very dangerous idea that is being sold to players these days, young players especially, is that if you just work as hard as possible, you'll achieve whatever you want. That's just not how it works. Not how life works, not how anything works. Okay, Again, we talked about how just because you work hard doesn't mean you're going to see the same results as somebody else. This is not how it works. So the issue is not having goals that are big or daunting or not maybe not possible. Like, maybe, maybe won't happen. The issue is when you put all your eggs into that basket, into something that probably is not going to happen. Okay? Because then at the end of the day, it's like, what are you left with if that doesn't happen for you? So for most players, it's just kind of a backwards view on things. And you know, for example, you know, I get DMs multiple times a day from players who will just straight up ask me how they can make the NBA. That's. That's their question. It isn't coach, like, I need to become a better shooter. What do I do? I need to become a better ball. I get those questions too, obviously. But. But I got questions every day from guys who are just like, coach, what do I need to do to make the NBA? First of all, I have never seen you play. I don't know. I don't know you. Like, I haven't. I don't know. I don't even know if you're good. So I can't answer that question for you. I can give you a baseline response, which I always do. You know, people do this, do this, do this at an elite level, but that doesn't really help you because at the end of the day, like we talked about it, top 0.00001% of basketball players in the NBA. That, that is a number. Now, obviously there's. There's more pro spots in terms of, like, you know, guys who play in the G League or play in Europe or Asia or anywhere that there's. That there's basketball, there's opportunities for you. But even still, I mean, probably, like, if you combine all the professional spots in the world, it's probably still 0.000008% of basketball players. How can play somewhere, right? Maybe, maybe, maybe. Maybe only four zeros and then a point one this time, but like still a very minuscule amount of people. You know, like I said, I mean, that's just a loaded question because like I said, there's just not. Like, if I have this new play, then I can't tell you that. And here's the thing, like, if you can do everything right and you can still be the 451st best player where you're elite, like, you are better than. You're better at basketball than most people are at anything that they will ever do, right? And you still might be the first guy out of the NBA. That can just be how it is. So to me, if a player asks, how do I make the NBA? A better question they should be asking is, how can I maximize my skills and become the best player I can possibly be? That's what you need to ask yourself. And that's a much better question. To me. It's like, don't worry about coach. What do you do to go to the NBA? Right? You guys haven't even played high school basketball. A lot of you guys haven't even excelled at high school basketball, right? A lot of you guys haven't. I'll get guys who will ask me how to make it to the NBA and they haven't played in college. It's like, how do you expect to go to the NBA when you haven't played college basketball? Like you're just going to go to the NBA? Like, that's, that's just not how it works, right? I'm not saying you have to play college basketball to be a pro. I mean, there's guys who, who, you know, borderline data didn't like, whatever. But I think that experience in itself to me is like, dude, you got to get on a college roster if you want to do that. Like, go, go get some experience, right? You know, I'll have a guy be like, oh, you know, I haven't, I haven't played any organized basketball, but I want to make it to the NBA. Well, you have to ask yourself, like, how realistic is that right now? Am I actually where I need to be? No, you're probably not. So that's a better question to ask yourself. Shift your focus. And this is what I really want to get to shift your focus onto things you control. Okay? Listen, you can, again, you can do everything right, and you can still be the 451st, 452nd best player, okay? So worrying about being top 450 in the world, you don't control that. All you control is the work you put in, okay? All you control is your commitment to get in the gym and work hard every day. And guess what? If you do those things correctly, you work at a high level, you're committed to it. Maybe you get to the NBA, maybe you do, but maybe you don't, okay? But you have to be. Here's what you need to do. You need to understand that if you put in all the work that you can, you work as hard as you possibly can, you still don't make it at least, you know. At least you can say, you know what? I did everything I could do. I worked hard for this. And again, like I said, hard work always pays off. There's always a silver lining. Even if you don't get what you want initially, you'll know, okay? But it all starts with focus on what you control. You control how you work, you control. If you work smart, you control. If you're consistent, you control those things. You don't control who's better than you. You don't, okay? Focus on your own game. And that is how you're going to be able to maximize your skills and actually get to where you want to get to. So, you know, to me, it's like, this is a whole big thing. Stop comparing yourself to other players. Stop worrying about who's getting posted on Ball's Life for overtime. That literally means nothing. Don't even worry about that at all. All that matters is what you're doing. Only thing you should care about is what you're doing. Tunnel vision. What you have to have, you gotta have tunnel vision, okay? So, you know, when it comes to having realistic goals, again, I want to find a balance, though, okay? So you have to have goals that. That still motivate you and push you to work at it. But at the end of the day, your ultimate goal is becoming the best player you can possibly be. The ultimate goal is maximizing your skills, because that's the only way to put yourself in a position down the line to actually be the best player you can possibly be. So on the other. On the other end of the spectrum, though, how do you know if you're underachieving? How do you know if your goals aren't as high as they should be? To me, this is a. This is a. Again, it's a balance. But, you know, I. I also think it's kind of simple. If you. If your goals, if you. If you know for 100% certain for a fact you can achieve what your goal is, it's not a high enough goal. It's not. If you are 100% certain you can do that, you're 100 certain that you can achieve that, it's not a big enough goal. There's no point in having a goal that you know you can. You can get because that's not gonna push you, right? And what I mean by that is that there needs to be some sort of pressure for you, okay? You need to be unsure of whether or not you can actually do it, because that way you won't Be leaving anything on the table. Okay. Because maybe if you. You know, you set yourself a goal and you easily get it. Well, you don't know if you could have gotten something even better if you had aimed a little bit higher, right? If you had aimed for something that was way more difficult, maybe you wouldn't have gotten that thing, but you might have gotten way farther than you actually got with your easy goal. Okay? So think about it that way. Your goal should definitely be something that pushes you, that you're unsure of whether or not you can actually do it. Okay. And I kind of got this idea from. From Kobe, because Kobe was talking about when, you know, post retirement, he was. He was saying where. You know, he was talking about his process for how he. You know, how he makes his films and his book and everything like that, all his creative endeavors, he was. He was a part of. He was talking about bringing guys onto his team and, like, how he. How he finds people for his team. And he was saying, you know, when I interview people, like, I don't. I don't. I don't hire people who are 100% sure that they can do what they. That they can reach what their goals are, right? Like, if I have a guy who comes in, he's like, oh, yeah, for sure. Like, this is my vision for this project. I know I can do it. Gonna be easy, for sure. No question, no problem. I'll get it done. Kobe's like, I'd rather have a guy who's kind of unsure. He's like, you know what? Like, Kobe, I mean, I think I really want to do this, but, like, I'm not 100% sure we're gonna do it. Like, this is tough. Like, that's the guys that Kobe wanted because he realized that those are the guys he's gonna get the most out of because they're gonna have to push themselves to be the best they can possibly be. That's how you make the best possible documentary, the best possible book. All that stuff he was doing, he needs to have guys who were. It's just pushing themselves beyond to where they might have even thought that they could get to, because that was how he could get the best possible outcome from those guys. So, you know, Kobe understood that's how you get the most out of somebody. Right? They have to be challenged, and it shouldn't be easy. It shouldn't feel easy. And there's no point living life doing things that are just easy for you, Right? That you don't have to actually have any sort of pressure Any risk, you got to take risk. Okay. And you know, we talk about goal setting all the time. I mean, episode one was, was all about how you shouldn't tell people your goals, right? We talked about, you know, how to, how to actually set goals that are gonna help you to, to actually reach them. And if you haven't seen that one, make sure you guys check out episode one. But in that episode, I talked about how when you have your goals, you shouldn't tell people those things. Okay. And because of that, like the, the reason for that essentially was because you, when you, when your goals are your own, it's, it's. You have ownership over them. Okay. So kind of what I was talking about with guys who, you know, when you guys are just going there and post their workouts, then they feel like that's all they need to do, right? Because once they let people know what they're doing, what they want, all of a sudden it's like, it almost gives you a sense of like, I already did this thing. And it's just kind of how our brains work, okay? So keeping those goals to yourself, that, that gives you more of an ownership over them and you're going to realize yourself, like, I haven't done this yet. Like, I have to work to get it because I haven't done it. Okay? So that was kind of my thought behind that. But, you know, that's why I have a ton of goals that I don't share. Like, I don't tell you guys, I don't tell anybody that just because they're mine, right? Like I. And I see them happening, but I want to. We can talk about them once they're done, but until that point, I'm just working on those things. Okay? But one goal that I will share with you guys that, that is kind of a long term thing for me is I want to help develop one future NBA player. Right? That's my goal right now. Whether that be through online, through my YouTube, through the perimeter score system, or any of my online training stuff, whether that be through in person training. I want to develop one NBA player. I want to have one NBA player who goes up using my stuff, using my training that I'm in contact with that makes to the NBA because of the stuff that I'm doing. Okay? Now, am I, am I there yet? No, I'm not there yet. I don't think I'm there yet. Maybe, I mean, we won't, obviously won't know until down the line, but that's a goal. And obviously I just Share with you the numbers 450 out of 450 million players, 450 of them are in the NBA. So obviously odds are not in my favor at all. Right? But here's the thing. I don't even care, like if I don't, if I don't reach that goal, but I helped develop 40 college players. Did I fail? No, I didn't fail because I still developed 40 college players. Right? So all of a sudden, things become very, very different when you look at that perspective. I might set a high goal for myself, but if I don't achieve it, I already know that what I will achieve, even if it's technically not that goal, is going to be great. Okay? So I'm not even worried about not getting to what I want to get to because I already know regardless of things I'm going to get, I'm going to be happy with the outcome that I. That I'll see. So, you know, but it was a good conversation with Ryan and I. We talked about also another thing about, we talked about the college level as well. And you know, how essentially I kind of brought up to how all these guys talk about the NBA, but you know, a lot of them haven't played college basketball yet. So, you know, what I'll say is, and kind of what we're talking about is that a lot of times, you know, the best player, like the best players in your area, there's a good chance they're going to play at the d3 level. So we're kind of discussing, you know, the d3, d2, d1, juco, like these levels, but also trying to understand how, you know, what the differences were. Because here's the thing, we talked about this before too. The top 5% of high school seniors who play basketball are going to play at the college level. 5% of them will play. Okay? So for you, what you need to understand about that is that if you're in that top 5%, like you can hoop, you can play, you're a really, really good player if you're in that top 5%. And again, there's not a huge difference between. Now obviously the top guys there, those high majors, the guys who are going one and done, they're on a different level from everybody else. Everyone else, though, very, very similar in terms of skill. There's going to be some differences in size and athleticism, but skill wise, there's not a big difference between that guy who's at the top of that, you know, maybe in the top 2% and the guy who's in the top 5%, right? Like, there's not a huge difference right there. So, you know, few of those top 5%, though, are gonna. Are gonna play at the D1 level. Probably. Probably, like, I believe it's 0.07 or 0.7 or 0.8 of those guys. Out of those 5% play at the D1 level. Most of the guys are playing at the D3 or D2 level. And so, you know, the chances are unless you play in a great basketball area, the. Or a great basketball, you go to a great basketball school, the best players in your area, most of them are probably going to the D3 level. Most of them probably are. And here's the thing. I play with a ton of. Not a ton, but I play with. With numerous D1 guys throughout. Played with and against numerous D1 guys between actual, like, games, between, you know, between tournaments, between camps, stuff like that. I've played against a bunch of different Division 1 players. And, you know, I was thinking about this yesterday. I was kind of making a list of guys I played against. You know, the. The three best players I've played with or against are all at the D1 level right now. So one of them plays at Delaware, One of them plays at Princeton, One of them plays at St. Francis. And those are the three best players I've ever played with or against, just in terms of their skill, athleticism, like, you know, combination of those things. But the next two players in my top five are both at the D. At the D3 level, right? So one of them I played AAU with, he. You know, he ended up. He was a dude who just could flat out score. Like, he could just get buckets on the perimeter. He was just. I mean, I saw him just light teams up when we played aau. He would just light teams up, and it didn't matter because teams knew what he could do. He would just light. Just light dudes up. And, you know, we would go, like, we'd play against some D1 talent and he'd hold his own and, like, there were games where he would. He would dominate against guys who were going to the D1 level. And, you know, he ended up. I know he had some. Some. Some low major interests at the D1 level, but he ended up going to a D3 school. And, you know, he. He ends up. I believe he led his conference in scoring this past year as a sophomore. And, you know, he's. He's a guy who. Who, like, you look at, and it's like this guy can just Straight up hoop. Like, he is a great player. And again, you can see it kind of paint off down the line. But a guy who, who I. And here's the thing, I have D1 guys on my list below him in terms of how good I think they are. Like, I think he's better than some of those guys, right? And he went to the D3 level, the next guy. And honestly, you could probably switch these guys four or five, whatever you want it to be. The next guy Also on the AU team plays at the D3 level now. And he was a guy, another guy who was just, I mean, first team all state in my state, like just crazy good. And so he's another guy, the D3 level. And he this past year, at 45 points in the first round of the NCAA tournament at the D3 level, scored 45 points in a college game, right? And as a sophomore, like both of those guys are, I can see them being all American level players of the D3 level over the next couple years. And though, I mean, like I said, there are D1 guys on my. Who I would put below them that I've played against. Like, that's how good. Like, people don't understand how good D3 basketball is. Like, depending where you play, it is great. And the thing that I'll tell people is that like, you know, regardless of the level, if you can hoop, you can hoop. You know, there are plenty of guys who go Pro from the D3 level. I don't know how many of you guys watch Devonte Friga right on YouTube. But he, I mean, he's another D3 guy and he's going pro. Like, if you can hoop, you can hoop, okay? And another guy that you can look at, Duncan Robinson, who plays for the Heat now, but he went to Williams College in Massachusetts. The only school that he. He was giving him a spot out of, out of. He did a postgrad year. He had a D3 offer from Williams College. So goes there, has a great freshman year, then gets recruited by a bunch of different D1 schools, ends up going to Michigan on a full scholarship his next year. I believe he was the second player ever to go from a D3 school to a full scholarship at a D1 school, goes to Michigan, helps them, helps lead them to a national title game appearance, then goes to the Miami Heat and breaks the record for most three pointers in a game. Now he's playing in the NBA on a $1.4 million guaranteed contract. Like that guy started off at a D3 level. So the. There's a huge misconception when it comes to the levels of basketball where guys think, oh, D3 basketball is not that good. No, it's, it's, it's great, guys. Like, any level called basketball is. Is just. There's a lot of great players there. So in fact, to illustrate this more there, like, there are D3 rosters, elite D3 rosters that are better than some low major D1 rosters. That, that's just a fact. There are some D3 rosters that are better than D1 rosters. Okay. And we can kind of do a deep dive into that. But, like, I can name. I actually did some research on this a while ago on, you know, what, what the worst D1 team is in the country. And I'm thinking about that school right now that there are. I can name you 10 D3s right now. Who would beat that school? 10 D3s. Who would beat that D1 school? It's not about the level, guys. It's about the program that you actually are playing at. So that's just kind of. You know what I was thinking of a ton of D3 rosters that are better than D2 rosters. A ton of them. Ton of those elite schools are better than D2 schools in terms of the, the actual basketball being played there. So, so forget about the level of college basketball. If you're, if you can play in the college level, you can hoop. That's just as simple as it is. And, you know, that's why I always tell players to. I got another dm. You know, I believe it was last week or maybe this week. It was. It was. A player was asking me, he was like, hey, coach, like, I want to be a pro one day. Which, here's the thing, guys, I talked about this whole, like, guys say, hey, I want to play in the NBA. Like, I'll help you guys out. I'll answer your questions when you have specific. This is a good question. He asked me, he said, coach, like, what can I do to put myself in a position to be a pro one day? Okay, that's a good question. He. So I told him, I was like, listen, you need to make sure that you focus on these. I gave him a couple skills he needed to have. And then I told him, I was like, listen, you need to make sure that you set yourself up to get to the best position for the college level. Keep your grades up. Like, give yourself the most amount of opportunities you have. Because again, if you can play, you'll, you'll. You'll the right eyes will find you in terms of the pro level. But when it comes to college, make sure you have the most amount of options possible. So a lot of these elite D3 basketball schools are also elite academic schools, right? So a school like Johns Hopkins, for example, that's one of them. A lot of schools in my state or that are elite D3s are also the best academic schools. And so obviously you want to play there, you've got to have great grades. So what I say to players is, make sure you keep your grades up, because then when it comes time for recruiting, all that stuff, you have the most amount of options. And again, a lot of times you can end up playing at an elite basketball school that's also an elite academic school. And that all stems from you putting in the work in the classroom and not slacking off because you, you know, because you feel like, oh, do you want her bust? Don't be that kid who's. Do you want to bust? Don't. Don't do that. Take what options you have given to you and figure out what's going to be the best of the best interest for you. But again, put yourself in the best position possible to play at the next level, okay? That kind of what it comes down to. So, you know, again, I don't want to come across as like saying, like, oh, you know, you know, you can't play D1. Like, that's all I'm saying. I'm saying, understand that the level is just not everything, okay? It's not the whole thing. And also, there are guys who are going to play D2 basketball, who are going to play D3 basketball, who are going to get paid a lot of money to play basketball one day. Simple as that. Okay? Whether that's in America, overseas, there are guys who are going to make a living playing at the D2, D3 level, going to go on, and they're going to get paid for it, okay? That's the goal, right? Get paid. So if that's your goal, make sure, again, you set yourself up to have the best chance to do that by obviously working on your skills. Obviously, we'll go back to where we started, making sure that you are working smart, you are taking the right approach to the game. And you know, you have your goals, your vision that you're going after. You set goals that are going to push you, and at the same time, you, you with those skills that you're working on, you know, you develop your ability to impact winning, and you excel in the role that you have okay, you, you excel in those skills that you need to excel in that role and combine that with, you know, the stuff off the court. So, you know, you keep your grades up now you have all these opportunities for yourself, and at the end of the day, that's when you can prove yourself. You can hoop, you can hoop. That's what it comes down to. So that kind of is how I'm going to tie everything full circle. You know, like I always say, guys, you have questions for me. DM me on Instagram. You know, like I said earlier, you can leave a comment on YouTube, but it's just, it's easier for me to kind of keep all that stuff organized because I got a lot of questions. It's easier for me to keep that organized if you DM me on Instagram @visiondrivenbasketball. And kind of like I was saying before beginning of the, of the podcast, you know, when we're talking about your schedule and what your workout should actually look like, how you should build them, you know, if you, like I said, if you want something that's going to have that all laid out for you, make sure you check out the perimeter score system. Like I said, it's not, I'm not publicly, I'm not publicly promoting it right now. So if you're interested in that, make sure you guys send me a DM on Instagram @ Visionary Basketball. And you know, I'm gonna get you guys set up with a, with a discount on that. And so, but I mean, moving forward, you know, gonna have a probably Paul George workout dropping tomorrow as of when you guys see this and we'll continue to move on. So again, questions. If you're on itunes, make sure you guys drop a review. Would appreciate that. YouTube, like subscribe and tell your friends and I'll talk to you guys soon. Peace. 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