A coach shares two mindset shifts that transformed his basketball career: becoming a student of the game by studying film and elite players, and adopting a service mindset to leave people and places better than you found them. Both came from Point Guard College, founded by Manu Watsa.
The biggest turning point in my basketball career was when I had two mindset shifts, not two skill shifts. The first mindset shift was I became a student of the game instead of just being a player of the game. I'd watch back film to see what I was doing right, what I was doing wrong. I would watch the NCAA tournament games as a student trying to learn from the players there, their mindset, their skill, their moves that they were doing, instead of just watching for fun. Became a student, not a player. The second mindset shift was I always left a person or a place better than I found it, whether it was a teammate who was having a bad day, you uplift them. Whether it was you saw a piece of trash in the locker room, you pick it up and you throw it away. Wherever I went, I tried to leave it better than I found it, and I feel like that really helped me get outside of myself and look to others instead of just always focusing inward on how I was doing or how I was feeling, which actually resulted in me playing better. These two mindset shifts came from a summer camp that I went to called Point Guard College. Shout out to Manu Watsa, he is the brains behind PGC. And now, over a decade later, I am still using those principles every day, which has brought me a lot of success in my family and in my coaching career. So parents Just look up PGC if you have a basketball player. You won't regret it.
