Playing Cautiously vs. Playing Confidently: Which Player Are YOU?

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Allows me to kind of put more into the show and again bring you guys even more stuff. So very appreciative of that. If you're on, like I said on YouTube right now, like subscribe if you're new podcast coming every single Sunday. And of course my Instagram is at Vision Driven Basketball. So if you have questions for me, a lot of times the, the pod, the topics I talk about the podcast come from DM questions or come from YouTube comments, whatever it may be. So there's those avenues for you guys as well to check out today. I want to talk about confidence. This is something that I've been thinking about a lot this past week. I think I've, I've talked about confidence a couple times, but I probably, I feel like I should go through it again and kind of give a little bit of a different spin on it as well. Specifically, I want to talk about kind of two different players here. Okay. And I, I'm sure you guys, whether, you know, you probably are one of these players or if you aren't, may, you know, you've definitely seen it and you definitely can understand where I'm coming from here. But we have the player who, you know, goes out and who just kind of seamlessly does what they do. Like, they go out and they, they just, they go make plays, right? They, they like, it doesn't matter if they miss a couple shots. It seems like every single game they're just consistently putting the ball in the basket and there's no real change in how they play. Okay. It doesn't get affected by, you know, the Kind of the daily, the, the day to day work, right? This is a player who's going to give you, you know, 15 a game, right, the whole season, okay? You're not too worried about them, you know, having a stretch of five, six games where they, they don't show up like they're there every single time. It doesn't matter who they're playing, doesn't matter where they're at. They always have a confidence about them. And usually you can feel that confidence too, right? If you play on a team with that player or you play against that player, if that player has just that kind of innate confidence that they're going to go get the job done, they're going to go score, they're going to do, they're going to go do whatever, like that's something that you, you can really feel. And then conversely, you have players who are kind of the opposite of that. They kind of ebbs and flows. Sometimes they're they're confident, sometimes they're not. A lot of times this is going to be based on, you know, how well they have recently played, right? If they miss a couple shots, they might immediately just check out of the game and not be able to do anything about that. And I wanted to kind of contrast these two players. Everybody wants to be that first player and I want to give you guys kind of a roadmap to get in there, okay? So, you know, for me as a coach, as a trainer, kind of there's a lot of goals you have for your players. So you know, you have, obviously you want your players to, to get better. I guess that's all that's, that's kind of an over overarching theme right there. But you know, specifically you want to be more skilled, right? I want my players able to shoot the ball better, handle the ball better, finish better. I want them to be able to make better decisions. I want them to have a higher iq, all those things. But if I had to boil all that stuff down into just one thing, like one main goal, then my ultimate goal is I want my players to become more confident. And this is my, my thought with all my workouts, right? Anytime, especially when I have groups of players, like I'm going to put them in situations where they're going to struggle, okay. Where you know, they're going to have to play. You know, basically all my training now is just, it's so much game, so many game based situations where, you know, we might work on a skill, we might work on some finishing, but then immediately after we do that. We're going to. I'm going to put a defender out there, and now we're going to finish with a defender there. So now you become confident in your ability to actually execute that skill when you're in the context of the game. Okay, that, and that's my ultimate goal, is I want you to feel confident that you can go execute when there's somebody who's explicitly trying to stop you from doing that. All right? That's really where confidence comes from. And at the end of the day, the level of confidence, I truly believe this level of confidence that you have determines the level that you can play to. Okay? If you have a high confidence, you're going to play to your max potential pretty much every time you play. Okay? Now that's not to say you'll never have bad games, but it's to say that on a consistent basis, you're going to be playing up to your potential if you have the right amount of confidence. Right? If you're confident in your ability, conversely, if you are not confident, you're not going to play up to what your potential is going to be. Okay, here's the thing. You're only as good as the results that you give on the floor. At the end of the day that, that you're only as good as that. You can say, hey, you know what, I can do this in practice, do that in practice. I can make a million shots in a row in practice. But if you don't go out, if you go out into games and you're afraid to shoot the basketball, you pass up opportunities and you, like, that's what you are as a player. Okay? If you're not able to overcome missing your first two or three shots, and after that, you kind of, you're done looking to be aggressive. And I should preface this with saying, like, ultimately the, the step number one is making sure that you're good. Like if you're not good, if you're not a good player, if you aren't able to actually shoot the basketball, you weren't able to put it in the basket, then no amount of conflict. You have to have the prerequisite, the prerequisite skills first. Okay? So you have to have put the time in. That's, that should be, that's off the bat. What we need to make clear right here. I'm not saying if you're brand new to basketball and you can't shoot at all, you should just go out and launch shots. I'm not telling you to do that at all. I'M also not saying if you're a bad shooter to go shoot the ball more, you shouldn't do that. I'm saying if you're a good player, because this is really where I wanted to get to. You know, there's a lot of players that I work with now that I see now that. And for me, like, I was that player who I was, I was able to make shots, I was able to do some stuff offensively, but my confidence was so hit or miss, right? It wasn't consistent at all. And that, more than anything, would be the cause of me having bad games. Right? More so than missing shots, turning the ball over. It was more so a mental thing. Okay? And so now I'll see players who, again, might not even be as talented as the guy next to them, but because they have the confidence in themselves, they. They're the ones who perform. Meanwhile, the player next to them might be better. They might be a more skilled player, might be bigger, might be more athletic, but they don't have that same level of confidence. And because of that, they get outplayed by players who aren't, who shouldn't be outplaying them at the end of the day, okay? And again, we all know players like that. Maybe that's you, right? But even if it's not you, you probably know somebody like that. You probably know a teammate. You're like, man, that guy should be way better. Or you play against somebody and say, hell, that guy should be way better. And because, you know, they don't have the confidence to go out and be aggressive and be willing to mess up, sometimes they don't play up to their potential. So at the end of the day, you know, you might see it can even be a difference between workouts and games, right? You might see a player, maybe it's you in workouts or in practices or even in pickup where, you know they're dominating, right? They're going out, they're hitting jobs, they're doing all this stuff. And then you get into the actual games, and all of a sudden it's like you don't even know they're on the floor. They. They're just completely checked out. So that's the other thing right there is the. The confidence is different when it comes to workouts or practice. And then you change. You go to a game now where things matter, you. You don't. You don't get to do things over, and there's eyes watching you. Do you have the confidence to be able to perform in those situations as well? And like I said, this is definitely something that I. I struggle with. But I think that this all comes down to confidence, right? And how can we gain confidence? How do we have confidence every time we step on the floor? I think that's, again, my goal with my players is to make sure that they do have that confidence. And when you fix that confidence issue, it gives you the ability to finally play that level that you're capable of playing. And like I said, guys, that's my ultimate goal and that's what I want to talk about today. So the first point I want to make about this is that how you approach the game is how you will play it. How you approach the game is how you will play it. So what I mean by that is that if you approach the game cautiously, if you approach the game saying, hey, I'm just trying to not mess up, not look bad, that's how you're going to play the game. You're not going to be able to play the game in the manner that you probably want to. You probably want to be a guy who can go out and score 20 points and, you know, hit a bunch of shots and do all this stuff, but if you approach the game cautiously, you're not going to be that player, okay? And again, this is specifically for the people, for the players listening who have put the time in and actually are at that level of ability where, hey, you know what? I think I'm good enough. Where I probably could go and score 20 points in a game, I could probably score 15 points in a game. I could probably be one of the leading scorers in my team because I've put the time in, I put the work in, but I'm not seeing that, okay? You have to evaluate how you actually approach the game, right? Do you go in looking to not mess up? Do you go in looking say, hey, oh, I can't miss any shots today, right? Or I'm only going to take the perfect shot, right? I'm not going to shoot the ball until it's the perfect shot, okay? The perfect opportunity, okay? One of the biggest issues is that a lot of times players wait for a perfect shot, okay? And again, this is speaking to guys who are good shooters, right? If you're a good shooter, this applies to you, okay? If you're a good shooter and your coach lets you shoot the basketball, you can't be waiting for perfect shots. You just can't do it, okay? When you have an open shot, when you have a shot that's available, right? Especially in the flow of an offense where maybe it's coming off of a driving kick, coming off of two or three passes, you have to be willing to take that shot and live with it make or miss. Again, if you're able to hit that shot and you've proven that in practice or your coaches know that, then that's the shot you have to be able to take. You have to have the confidence to say, you know, I'm going to take this shot. I might miss it. Okay, I might miss that shot. But it's a good shot for me. So that's the difference between playing cautiously and playing confidently. The cautious player is waiting for those perfect opportunities, saying, okay, I'll shoot the ball when it's absolutely perfect. And what usually ends up happening is that they get to the end of the game and they only taken two shots because there are only two shots where without a shadow of doubt, they had to shoot the basketball. That's typically what you see like with a player who approaches the game cautiously. They only take shots that they have to take, right? Or the majority of the time, the shots that they take are the shots that they have to take where you're wide open, you can't pass the ball up or else you're going to get pulled. Right? That's the type of player who usually approach the game cautiously is their way, and say, you know what? I have shoots basketball. Meanwhile, the player who approaches the game confidently is obviously going to take those shots they have to take, but they're also going to take some shots that they probably don't have to take that, you know, that might be a little bit more contested. Okay? And I'm not saying to go and take contested shots. I'm saying that you don't have to wait for perfect shots. The confident player is not waiting around for a quote, unquote, perfect shot because they just don't happen very often. Right. Unless you're on a team that has five guys who are all great shooters and you can literally wait for a perfect shot every possession. Most teams don't have that, okay? So if you're one of the better players, then you've got to go out. You have to approach the game with that level of confidence. So the thing is, when you're that cautious player, first of all, off the bat, you're going to have less chance because like we said, you're typically going to wait for those perfect shots, which are just going to not happen very often. Okay. Again, in most circumstances. But the other thing to consider is that even when you get those perfect opportunities. Maybe not even shooting. Maybe it's just the perfect opportunity to attack the basket, right? If you're playing cautiously, a lot of times you're going to. It's kind of a paradox, right? You would think, okay, I'm playing more, I'm playing safely, right? I'm playing really, really safe. Well, a lot of times, even when you take advantage of the opportunities, they're, they're not going to work out for you because you're approaching it with the mindset of to not mess up. And we are trying to go out and not do something. A lot of times that's what ends up happening, right? That's the paradox, right? There you go out there trying to not mess up. A lot of times you end up actually messing up more than you would if you just went out and played, okay? And combine that with the fact that you're going to get less opportunities because you take less opportunities, you're less aggressive, and the results that you get are going to be a lot worse than you might think, okay? So that's the biggest thing to understand. If you play cautiously, you're actually hurting your chances of, of not messing up, okay? When you try and focus and go out there and try to say, hey, I'm not going to mess up today, a lot of times what happens is you mess up more. Meanwhile, the player who goes out and approaches the game confidently is first of all going to have more opportunities because they take more opportunities, okay? And so they might miss more shots, but they take more shots. So it kind of balances itself out. But also you're a lot of times going to capitalize more on those opportunities because you're approaching it aggressively, right? You're trying to go get something done. Your goal is to score or to make a play. Your goal is not to not mess up. Your goal is to go make something happen. And a lot of times, again, it's a kind of a self fulfilling prophecy, right? You go out trying to do something. That's usually what happens, okay? You go out trying to not mess up. Well, all that your brain computes is trying and mess up, okay? And there's, there's been studies that have been done on stuff like this. Specifically, I was reading one by, done by Utah. It was Utah State, or maybe it was, it was done on the Utah State teams, but they basically did a study on a, the, the, a women's college volleyball team and a women's college soccer team. And they looked at the correlation between performance and confidence and whether or not Those two had an effect on each other and they found that, I think we kind of all know this, but they did those things have a correlation. And as you know, as your performance increases, typically confidence goes up. And it's kind of like a cycle because as confidence goes up, performance continues to increase as well. Okay. So that's something to consider. Again, we want to get to the point where we are approaching the game confidently, right? We're going out there trying to make things happen. And when you go out there and you approach it confidently, ready to take advantage of the opportunities that you're given, a lot of times it's going to help you to make more of those, make the most of those opportunities. And that's ultimately what your goal should be. Okay. I think kind of relating to this, a big part of it is focusing, you know, where is your focus when it comes to positive and negative? Okay. Because I think a lot of players who struggle with confidence have a very, very negative focus and a very, very negative approach. And this is again an area where, you know, I've certainly struggled with before as a player. And it's a lot of times a what if situation. So what if, you know, what if I go in there, I turn the ball over, right? What if I go in there and I miss a shot? What if I go in there and I drive and someone strips the ball for me? Okay. A lot of times it's negative thoughts that are going through that player's mind. And again, it's self fulfilling prophecy. If you're thinking negative thoughts. A lot of times the, the negative outcome is what you're going to get. So you, you have to replace you. First of all, identify those thoughts and you have to replace them as well. Okay. The question is, how do you talk to yourself after you miss a shot? Right? This is definitely an area that I still struggle with now, even when I'm playing now, like I'll miss a shot and I have to try and catch myself because a lot of times for me it's like my body language, right? Because I like when I shoot the basketball, I really, I expect it to go in, right. And when it doesn't, how do you respond to it? You know, for me, I definitely need to get better at this. You know, not kind of not hanging my head when I miss a shot, just continuing to play because the next shot's going to come. Okay. And it's something that I definitely get on my players about because I see it with myself. And it's definitely a bad habit, for sure. But it's something that you have to identify, and then you have to break that, okay? Because end of the day, you're going to miss shots. Missed shots happen. But it's how you respond to that, right? Great shooters have that next play mentality, okay? So, you know, you, you, you make or miss, right? You make the shot great. You miss a shot great. You're on to the next play. You're going to play defense because you're going to get another shot at some point, okay? And you got to be ready for that one. I forget, it might have been a DM that I got this week or maybe it was last week, and I forget the exact context of the situation, but kind of my thought in my response was like, basically this player was. It was probably a similar situation to this where they were talking about, okay, you know, I missed a shot and I was like, upset. And the, the, the funny thing is, like, the kind of the, the comparison I like to make is that being upset about missing a shot that just happened five seconds ago and being upset about missing a shot that you missed four years ago, it literally. You have the same amount of control over both of those with. Is zero. So it's basically the same exact thing, right? You're upset with missing a shot that just happened. Well, you have. There's nothing you can do about that except keep playing. And it's the same thing with a shot that you missed four years ago, right? There's nothing you can do about that shot. It. It's already happened, okay? And that's what great players, great shooters specifically have embodied, right? Is that. I'm on to that next shot, okay? I missed it. Okay, on to the next one. And that's something that, especially as you're practicing, right? Even just in your workouts, getting shots up when you start to feel yourself getting frustrated when you miss shots, like, what do you, what do you tell yourself? What, what goes through your mind? Are you thinking, man, I'm terrible. I can't make shots. Oh, man, I'm gonna missing everything today. Or is your. Your thought of me like, listen, I'm gonna make the next one? Or, hey, I'm a great shooter, the next one's gonna go in like, what is your selft talk? Because positive or negative? Because I think practice is really where that, where that starts, okay? Where you can kind of coach yourself and say, hey, you know what? I'm going to be positive every time I miss a shot, make or miss, it's a positive reaction for me. I'm not Hanging my head. I'm not saying anything negative. I'm just going to keep on going, okay? That's something that I would encourage all of you guys to do is when you catch yourself being negative at any point in a game, flip, flip that script in your mind and say, hey, you know what? Positive talk, okay, next one, I'm going to make the next play, right? I'm going to, I'm going to get this one the next time. Next one's going in, okay? Those are the type of things that, again, separate those players who play cautiously and play confidently. The confident players, always positive with themselves. They always think that they're going to make the next play, that the next shot's going to go in. That's always their thought, okay? And that's what is the important piece with all of this when it comes to conflict? Confidence. So the biggest question becomes, how do I gain confidence? Right? What are the steps to take to become that confident player? And I think there's a lot of ways to do it. Now, first of all, I think I'll preface this with the fact that you have to put the time in, okay? And I've said this a couple times already, but if you aren't a good shooter, then no amount of, you know, self talk, whatever, is going to make you a good shooter, okay? You've got to be able to shoot the basketball if you want to be confident in yourself as a shooter. What I, what this is specifically talking about is that there are players who are, who are good shooters who still aren't confident in themselves, who still miss a shot and they can't overcome that, right? They think, oh, I'm terrible today. I can't make shots today. Meanwhile, no one else in the gym thinks that their coaches are like, listen, I need you to shoot the next shot. Their teammates are like, okay, I need you to keep playing, right? But that player is so in their own head that they're not able to, they don't have that confidence to be able to bounce back from that. So I want to talk about that right, right here, okay? You know, the, the, the one thing, like the one line I want you guys to remember from this is that you gain confidence by seeing good things happen, not by avoiding bad things. You gain confidence by seeing good things happen, not by avoiding bad things. A lot of players take the opposite approach to this, okay? They think that, hey, if I just never mess up, then I'll be confident. That is actually the opposite of that. You will gain confidence by seeing good things happen. So Again, it becomes the approach. Are you focusing on the negative or are you focusing on the positive? Because if you're focusing on the positive, chances are you're going to be in a position to gain that confidence. Now, what do I mean by this exactly? What I mean is that having been previously successful is the best way to gain confidence. The best way to gain confidence is already having succeeded in a certain situation before. So as important as it is to train and work hard, as important as it is to think positively, all the stuff that we, we've talked about already, okay? When it comes to gaining confidence, have you been successful in that situation before? Is a question that you need to answer. And this is why you have to approach games aggressively. You have to approach looking to make something happen. Because when you start to make a couple shots, right, you get a couple drives to the basket, you make a couple really nice passes, you make some. A couple great plays. That's where confidence comes from. It comes from making things happen, okay? Because here's the thing in that throughout that situation, you're probably gonna mess a couple things up. You, you know, you might make four shots, but, you know, one of those, let's say you make four out of five shots. Maybe you're third shot was a miss, but you kept on going, okay? So you were that four shot, the fifth shot, boom. Now you're feeling very, very confident in yourself because, hey, I made five shots today. Okay, you did miss one, but you made five shots today. And that's ultimately what the important, what the important part is, right, when it comes to being confident is you have to see good things happen. And I'm sure you guys have felt this, right? I definitely feel this all the time. Even though I'm just playing pickup or whatever. Like if I go down, I make two or three shots. It just changes the whole way that you play now, right? If you make your first couple of shots in a game, you all of a sudden are like, oh, yeah, like I'm ready to play. I think for the majority of players, when they get out to a good start, usually those end up being their better games. Because now you're playing the game with confidence. You've hit a couple shots, you're feeling good at that point, you're in the zone, right? And the zone is just, you know, know you are, you're feeling good, right? You're just in the moment playing. Okay? A lot of times when, when players are out there trying to not mess up, they, they, you can't get in the zone that way. Okay. You're always going to be in your own head, overthinking things, making mistakes, because you're not just in the moment playing this. Probably a whole episode I'm going to have to do at some point. I've kind of done this, I've kind of done an episode talking about this, but I'm going to have to probably go more in depth into talking about the zone specifically. But again, the, the, you get into the zone by being positive, right? By going out there and being aggressive. And when you hit those first couple shots, now you're just playing basketball and then you're going to be in that peak performance, that zone state, and you're going to be at your best. So that's why I'm saying, guys, the best way to gain confidence is to go out and see good things happen, make good things happen, right? You're not going to do that by sitting around waiting for the perfect opportunity. Because when you miss the shot in that, if you take two shots in a game, there's a good chance that you're going to miss both those shots, right? If you're a great three point shooter, you shoot 40%, so that's two out of five, okay? So if you take two shots in a game, it's a very real possibility. You miss both of those shots and then how do you feel at that point? You're just going to be absolutely crushed because you waited for those two perfect opportunities and you missed both of them. So now you're even less confident you were before because you tried to avoid making mistakes. Meanwhile, if you would have gone out and shot the ball five times, you probably would have made at least one or two of them. If you're a good shooter, okay? And now all of a sudden you've got a couple makes under your belt and you're feeling better. So you probably end up shooting the ball a little bit more now, you know, maybe you get a couple drives. So now they said, oh, you hit two more shots, you, you got the free throw line. Now we're talking, you scored 10 points that game, okay? And it's just the difference between the approach. One player approaches it with that, that cautious negative approach of I'm going to try not to mess up. And they never are able to get themselves going. The other player approaches it with that positive mindset of, hey, I'm going to, I'm going to go, you know, make a play. I'm going to go try and be aggressive right here. If I have an open shot, I'm going To take it. If I have an open drive, I'm going to look to attack. And because of that, I got myself going and I was able to get more opportunities. I was able to create for my teammates all those things that are important and it just changes depending on the approach that you take to do that. Okay? And you know the. Again, I'm sure that you've probably felt this before. What I'm not saying, guys, is again, I'm not saying to go out and do things you're not capable of doing. I'm. I'm not saying to go out and shoot threes. If you, if you're coaching like you shoot threes, you're not good at them. That's not what I'm saying to do. I'm saying go do what you do well, okay? And stop trying to be perfect at it, because you're not going to be. You just got to go out and play and do your best and put yourself in the best position by approaching it with confidence and being positive and ultimately let. Let the chips fall where they may. Okay? It all comes down to that mode that you put yourself in. Are you going to approach the game confidently or you're going to approach the game cautiously? Because if you approach it cautiously, I promise you, you're going keep yourself in a box and you're not going to like the box that you're in. You're really not going to like it. When you approach it with that confidence, with that positive outlook. Hey, I'm going to make the next shot. I'm going to look to be aggressive right here. I've. I know I've put a lot of time in. I've made a lot of shots, so I know that the next shot's going to go in. The, the way that you play is going to be completely different. Okay. You know, that's why I was saying before a lot of times, and this goes back to what I always say about the importance of playing, right? The importance of playing games. Because in my workouts we're gonna do like, I'm just strictly talking about my in person training that I do like. Especially if I have groups of guys who are like, they have a decent baseline of skills, we're gonna end up playing probably for 70% of the workout. Now that doesn't mean we're just gonna roll all the ball and go one on one. It means we're gonna be in different situations that we're going to play out of. So maybe we play out of a drive and kick situation. Okay? Where you're working. Okay, what do you do when you catch the ball on the wing after a driving kick? Like, when do you shoot it? When do you drive? Like, what do you do when you drive? Those are the situations we work on because those are the ones that happen the most in games. Okay? So it's just different stuff like that. But again, my goal is to build confidence in those situations. And now when you get into a game and you're in that same situation, you've been there before and you've been in practice where, quote, unquote, practice or a workout where we simulated that, you've made shots there, right? You've attacked, you've scored, you've seen it work before. So you feel that innate confidence to do it. Okay. You know, typically, if you have a really good game, you're going to come out the next time pretty confident in yourself. And it's the same thing when. That's how you know when it's like that with your workouts too. So again, not everybody is able to do that workout wise. I understand that. So that's where playing comes into effect. So if all you do is train by yourself, again, training is important. That's. That's not something that we skip over. Right? Again, I preface this whole thing with, if you're not a good shooter, don't shoot the ball. Right? Your coach is not going to want to shoot the ball if you can't make shots. That's how it works. Okay? What I'm saying is that understanding that the next step is, okay, how often am I playing, right? How often am I putting myself in a position where, where I have to be able to read, react, make the right decision and live with the results of me being confident? Okay? How often do I get to experience having to tell myself, hey, you know what? Next shot, next play, we're gonna get the next one, right? Am I able to recognize when I'm not being confident when I'm playing, when I'm approaching things the wrong way? You get that through game experience. So as often as you guys can play, whether it's just one on one, two on two, or five on five, whatever it may be, just the more opportunities you have to go against somebody, the better it's going to be for you and the more confidence you're going to build up. Okay, but again, I want to make sure that you guys understand the importance of kind of our three points here. So, you know, number one, how you approach the game is how you play the game. So do you approach the game cautiously, trying to not mess up, trying to only take the perfect opportunities, or do you approach it confidently? Right? Trying to go make a play, make something happen, do something good, and do you take the opportunities that you're given? Okay. That's the biggest thing when it comes to who's successful and who's not is really just the approach that you, that you go into the game with. Number two, do you focus positively or negatively? Okay. Or what is your reaction when you miss a shot? Okay, and again, listen, for me, personally, 100 honest with you guys, this, this is an area where I'm not good at. I, I'm not good at my reaction after missed shots. And a lot of times because, and I see it again with players, like, there can be different reasons for it, but for me, it's because, you know, I go out and I am like, I, I expect to make every shot, which you should. But then it becomes, okay, you have to know that you're not going to miss every. You're not going to make every shot, because even the best shooters in the world don't. Okay, so how do you handle it? That's something that I definitely have to catch myself and I constantly have to improve. Okay. And I'm sure for a lot of you guys, the same way as well. So where is your, where is your approach at? Okay. When you catch yourself, you know, flustered after a miss, do you tell yourself, hey, I'm making the next one, or, hey, you know what? I got to shoot the next shot. Hey, you know what? Next play, I'm going to go make a play right here. Okay? I'm going to go get a stop on defense, right? That's the question right there. Okay? So your focus needs to be positive, not negative. And then the last one, you gain confidence by seeing good things happen, not by avoiding bad things. Very, very big key, if you understand right there, go out and make something positive happen for yourself and watch the, the results you get for your games completely change. So those are kind of the three points right there when it comes to confidence. And I hope that this helps you guys out. I know that this is something I've been thinking about a lot, and I know that there's definitely some players this for sure applies to. This is. You know, I always talk about how when I started the podcast or even when I started my YouTube channel in general, about, let's see, it's April, so this would have been almost two years ago, probably a little less than two years ago. And my, my, my goal is always like, hey, I just want to be able to put out stuff that I know would have helped me back when I was still playing, right? If I could have seen this when I was, you know, in 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th grade, like this would have been awesome, right? And this is another thing right here that I think is something players need to be able to see. So again, hopefully that helped you guys out. 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