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Obi Emegano

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Sports Performance Psychology
🇳🇬 Olympian 🏀 8-Year Pro
👨🏿‍🎓 Oral Roberts Psych Grad
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A good three point shooter shoots around 40 percent. Four for ten. That means he misses more than he makes. Every hooper knows that number.⁠
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Then he misses two in a row and he's mad.⁠
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The math is easy. Holding onto it in the moment is the hard part, because we're emotional creatures. You miss and you feel like you failed. Nobody likes failing. You're not thinking rationally at that point, you're just reacting.⁠
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That's the part you have to train. Intelligent players understand they're going to miss two in a row, three in a row. So when it comes, accept it. It's what you signed up for.⁠
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Next play.⁠
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Team practice helps.
But it’s never enough.

If you want to separate yourself,
you’ve gotta work when nobody’s asking you to.
Parents and coaches we cant do the work for them, but its our job to make sure our athletes understand the time commitment/ discipline/ sacrifice required to be great.

#Wonbyone #YouthBasketball #basketballtraining #basketballmom #basketballcoaching by @obiemegano

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I hate watching an athlete miss a shot and drop their head. Throw their hands up. Look around the gym like, I'm better than that, I was supposed to make that.
Nobody cares. This is a game of misses. Get back on defense.

Sulking after a miss is the most selfish thing you can do. You take the attention off the team and put it on yourself, on your ego. You want everybody to know you're better than that shot. And while you're putting on that show, you're not getting back on defense. The miss didn't hurt your team. That does.

That's the first sign of an amateur. A pro has missed so many shots that a miss barely registers. I missed, what now, next play. The amateur misses and turns it into a scene.

Everyone misses. What you do in the next two seconds is the part people actually notice.
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Mike's answer: 14, with body weight. Push-ups, pull-ups, squats. By 17 they're ready to compete physically with anybody.⁠
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Before that, teach them to pass, shoot, and dribble, and stop locking them into one position.⁠
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Episode 86 with @coachmikefraser now available on YouTube.⁠
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If sport is the only thing you have, a bad day in the gym comes home with you.⁠
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That's why you need outlets outside of it. Your sport is something you do, not who you are.⁠
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For Josh it's music. It gives him somewhere to reset when the gym didn't go his way.⁠
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Episode 64 with @jrich_0 now available on YouTube.⁠
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Being the scorer guarantees you misses.⁠
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That's the job.⁠
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The skill nobody talks about is composure, the ability to go 3-for-13 and still shoot the same shots the next day. Because doubt doesn't show up all at once. It slowly makes you hesitate. And in a game played in tenths of a second, that hesitation is all it takes to throw you off. That's why we teach focus and composure. ⁠
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Junior year going into senior year. I wanted to see what it was like.⁠
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What I got was a look at the level those guys were at. I took that home and worked on my game.⁠
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Senior year: state champion, Player of the Year, two Division I offers.⁠
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Find a team to play on. Then go get better.⁠
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After practice Mike took me to the grocery store. Frozen berries, the salad, the right bread. He was just going through his normal day. I was learning the game.⁠
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That's what I try to teach my guys now.⁠
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The external scoreboard is the box score. Points, minutes, stats. You don't control it.⁠
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The internal scoreboard is the one you set for yourself. In college, mine was 10 shots a half, six free throws a half, my pregame, my postgame. It didn't depend on anybody else. I measured it day in and day out.⁠
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When I got hurt, the scoreboard didn't go away. It changed. Rehab twice a day. Film. Early to practice. Helping my guys.⁠
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Figure out what's on yours.⁠
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LeBron or MJ. Who's your GOAT and why?⁠
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Tell me in the comments.⁠
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Fewer jobs. Teams not paying. Mike still tells guys to go, because even two or three years over there opens your horizons and arms you in a way life here can't.⁠
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Shoutout Oklahoma Baptist!⁠
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Episode 86 with @coachmikefraser now available on YouTube.⁠
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I keep harping on this.⁠
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As much as you can argue I was seen, I could argue I was overlooked. It's a sliding scale.⁠
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I played Peach Jam. My two offers didn't come until after my senior season.⁠
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The point is you have to hoop regardless. It's less about where you are and more about what you're doing.⁠
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If you disagree with this take, lmk why in the comments.⁠
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