Elijah Bryant explains how your brain handles emotional triggers during games. When you miss a foul call, your amygdala floods your system with stress hormones in milliseconds. Your prefrontal cortex can override that reaction, but only if you train it to.
To me, the mind is the most important thing on the basketball court, because if you aren't able to control your mind, then you can't even focus on making a shot or running a play. So listen to this science. This is science. This isn't me from experience. This is based on neuroscience from your brain. So there's 3 things our brain does when it is encountering emotion, a problem, something like that. It first detects it. So these detect that the ref didn't give me a foul, and after that it reacts. But when we react emotionally, that's really reacting with your limbic system. And what does that mean? The amygdala sends a signal through your hypothalamus to your pituitary gland, basically says, oh shoot, I'm about to get hit by a car, and the pituitary gland spits out stress hormone, making you be able to react. Very quickly. And for me, I react by, why was that not a foul? Now, while all that is happening, the prefrontal
