Draymond GreenForward, Golden State Warriors

Dray on the physical tax of a seven-game series 😵 #shorts #nba #nbafinals #warriors #nbaplayoffs

6 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, Warriors forward Draymond Green explains how the grueling nature of a playoff series creates continuous physical soreness from game to game, but the true strain is felt when the series ends. He emphasizes that during the series players must lock their minds into the present, focusing on preparation and recovery rather than dwelling on pain. The mental discipline to prioritize getting the body ready for the next game masks the soreness. Once the series concludes and there is no next game to prepare for, the accumulated fatigue hits hard, likened to being hit by a semi‑truck. Green uses this observation to illustrate the powerful role of mindset in managing physical strain during intense basketball competition.

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You get sore from like game to game for sure, because it's, you know, you're playing in a series and I mean, it's intense basketball. It's the most intense basketball you're going to play. But when you're really sore is once the series end, because mentally you're kind of in this space of like just locked into the moment, doing whatever you gotta do. To get yourself ready for the next game, you can't allow your mind to go to a place of even thinking like, oh man, I'm just so sore. Like, as opposed to your mindset being, I'm so sore, your mindset is more so, what do I need to do to get my body ready for the next game? The moment that series ends and you're no longer looking forward to that next game, you feel like you got hit by a semi-truck. Yeah. And it's crazy. Again, it's one of those things that just goes to show the power of the mind.