If you put your effort and concentration and to play into your potential to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book, we're going to be winners.

The talent for so many players today, the talent and the spotlight, it's taking them to heights that their character's not strong enough to support.

I'm one of those set goals of achievements.

I talked about faith, passion, obviously the drive with the guys that I've been around

and the guys that surround me every single day.

If I want to be one of the best, I've got to play with and against the best.

So that which gets praised gets repeated.

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Today, we're continuing in our four-part series about coaching traps. So when your coaches fall into these particular traps, how you as a

player can best respond. If you missed the last one, you absolutely want to go check it out.

It's when we talked about when you have a coach that is extremely controlling, how do you handle that coach? We gave some insight

and some suggestions on how you can handle it. I think you'll enjoy that one, as you will.

This one. Today we're talking about critical coaches. And when critical coaches, they tend to

create insecure players, TJ. I think we've all seen those coaches and been a part of

teams where there's critical coaches, man. It's almost like you can't do anything right for this coach.

Everything you do, they always find a way to kind of knock it down and be critical of it.

And, you know, you spend a whole year and you find yourself, I just want to, like, do something to make my coach proud. Yeah. You know, I love my coach to say something nice about me. It feels like they never do. And it's really draining me. And it's hurting my confidence. And it's making me insecure. And it's unfortunate because at the beginning of the year I was like ready to go I was

fired up I was confident I had a great offseason and I felt really good but now it's like

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