The ONLY 2 Things You Should Focus On During Games (ELITE Mindset)

There are only two things, really, that you control on the basketball court, and that is your effort and your energy, okay? Or your attitude. We can even say when it comes to effort, how hard you play, that is something you control. And, you know, whether or not you make or miss a shot, sprinting back on defense and playing hard, that's something that you do absolutely 100% control. You know, you turn the ball over and instead of putting your head down and sulking about it, getting back on defense or whatever, right? Your teammate turns the ball over instead of, you know, getting. Getting, you know, mad or whatever and, like, losing your mind. Like, you know, you going over and be like, hey, man, let's. Let's. Let's get it together. Let's go. Like, you know, let's get. Let's get a stop right here, right? You going back and playing hard on defense, those are things you control, right? Whether or not your team is winning or losing you going through and playing hard offensively, going through, doing the right things, right? Running your system the way that your coach has you run it, doing all the little things correctly, even when things might not be going well, that is something you absolutely 100% control. And what you guys need to understand is that the better energy that you give, the higher likelihood of you playing well. When you give your best effort, your ceiling or your capacity to play well is at its maximum. The only way that you have any influence on the outcome of the game or the outcome of your own personal game is through the energy, the effort that you give. All of that means that if you focus on giving your best effort at all times, the outcome is gonna take care of itself. But, you know, think of it as like, I just watching the Hunger Games the other day, because who aren't familiar with what the Hunger Games is? It's basically a. It's a fictional dystopian universe where there's 12 districts. It's basically America and like a post apocalyptic. I don't know that's the right word for that, but basically there was an uprising, and then America is now under new control, and there's 12 districts across the. Across America. Just think of it as like 12 states. And every year there's a Hunger Games. They take a boy and a girl from each district, and they have them basically do like a battle royale for one winner. Okay, So a pretty horrible thing, but how they do it is that they draw names to determine who the two. The two candidates from each victor from each district will be. So they put all these names into you know, a giant container, and then they just draw out a boy and a girl from each container. And as you get older, your name gets entered into the jar more often. And also, I believe if you. If you get food, like, they'll give you food or something, if you are willing to put your name in extra time so you can get more food from the government, if you put your name in more times. So basically, you're more likely to get picked. To draw that analogy back to basketball, you can think of it as, like, the same thing. The more energy that you give, the more effort that you give, the more times your name is in that jar, right? And except in this time, you know, your name being in that jar. More times just means the higher likelihood of you playing well, that's. That's a great way to look at it, is that you want to have your name in the jar as many times as possible. And the way that you do that is by giving your best effort at all times. So what you need to do when you start to overthink, right, or if you have a habit of overthinking, is you need to just remind yourself whether that is out loud or just in your head during games so you start to overthink is just effort. I need to give my best effort. My best effort is all that matters. I'm gonna give my best effort on this play. That's the only thing that matters, because it's all that you control. If you can now focus on just thinking about that, everything else is gonna take care of itself. Assuming that you prepared yourself physically for the game, that's one thing to understand. The other aspect of that is your attitude. Okay, so are you a positive person, right? When you. When you play poorly, do you, you know, just shut it off? And do you just tap out and be like, oh, I guess. I guess I'm just not gonna, you know, try very hard today? I guess I'm just not going to have a good attitude today because I'm not going to be a good teammate today because I'm not going to be coachable today. Is that what happens to you when you don't play well or you miss a shot or your coach yells at you? Do you. Do you resort to having a bad attitude about it? Because that is the other thing that you control. Whenever your attitude is bad, your coachability is bad, all this is bad. Think about it as taking names out of the jar, out of the container. So now you have less of a likelihood of playing well. So your effort and your attitude are the two things you control and the only two things you really should be focused on as you play. I want to give you guys my free leap perimeter score workout. We're going to target a bunch of skills that you're going to need to have. You want to be an elite player on the perimeter? All you got to do to get that is click the top link in my description right below and I'll get that right to you.