Basketball players should read Tim Grover's Relentless and adopt the "closers" mindset. View setbacks like being benched or playing poorly as problem-solving opportunities, not failures. After each bad game, develop a systematic approach to improve rather than dwelling on the loss.
If you're a basketball player and you haven't read this book, we need to talk. The book is called— well, I haven't finished it yet, but let's, let's read it together. Relentless by Tim Grover. I just started the book, but it had one profound statement that was just mind-boggling, and I try to live by. So, you know, as young hoopers, you deal with a lot of noise, a lot of people trying to take your confidence, all this stuff. Regardless, he said, the closers— and you'll know what closers are if you've started reading it— the closers, there's never failure, there's only continuous problem solving. You know, I had to highlight that real quick. So we get benched, we don't play well, there's all this noise around us. It's not a failure. Let's just problem solve. So let's walk through that. What would problem solving be? I play a bad game. What does that mean? Develop a system.
