Create Your Shot: Dr. Doug Polster

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

Sports, Underdog Sports, The Underdog, Basketball, Nba, -- None --, Create Your Shot

4.9 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Smallz and Tyler step off the court and into the halls of Academia with Dr. Doug Polster. A former shot creator on the hardwood, Dr. Doug is a Sports Neuropsychologist specializing in sports performance, injury recovery, and sports concussion. He is based in Los Angeles and works at the UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT concussion clinic and also runs his own private practice, Polster Performance. 0:30: Tyler Intro 3:16: Tyler and Smallz Intro 4:25: Sports Psychology across all platforms 4:40: Being introspective as an individual 6:12: Mental Toughness in players and coaches 7:10: Why do you do what you do? 10:22: Tapping into the mental side of sports 12:30: Sports as a relationship business, how can young coaches help 14:37: Does clutch exist? Let us know in the iTunes comments: Tyler vs. Smallz 15:44: Welcome Dr. Doug 16:07: Doug's background and concentration in psychology 17:50: The difference between Doug and a typical Sports psychologist 20:38: Playing basketball at Johns Hopkins/managing time between sports and academics 22:40: Social life at Johns Hopkins/Forbes listers Dr. Doug went to school with 24:31: Academic and Athletic Pressure and the Ricky Bobby mentality 25:42: The impact of Dr. Doug being told he wasn't going to be an NBA player 28:25: Dr. Doug on what he knows now and how it could have helped him as a player 29:40: The stigma of sports psychology 31:02: The role of coaches and captains in legitimizing sports psychology 42:29: Dr. Doug and his run club 42:47: It's all in your head 43:50: Athletes not listening to coaches/Smallz is an egomaniac 44:45: Controlling what you can control 45:20: How smart is smallz? 45:35: Understanding the message not the delivery 50:45: Showing tangible sports psychology results 52:16: Dr. Doug's work with a UCLA athlete recovering from a concussion 53:48: Understanding sports performance and blending every piece of athletics 55:58: How do you deal with failure 56:37: Being comfortable enough to allow yourself to not be at your best 1:02:33: Doug's ultimate career goals 1:04:30: On the couch with Dr. Doug 1:08:50: Dr. Doug tells Smallz to drink more beer 1:09:09: Tyler scientifically breaks down why he's the GOAT at beer pong 1:09:40: Polster Performance disclaimer 1:09:55: Dr. Doug breaks down what alcohol does to your brain 1:13:10: How failure effects athletes 1:15:45: City Review: Baltimore, MD 1:18:27: Natty Boh and Baltimore beer stories 1:21:10: Funniest teammate 1:22:40: Dr. Doug's dream patient 1:23:33: Doctors are nerds and don't know sports 1:24:40: Best and worst thing about living in LA 1:25:47: Favorite book and TV Show 1:26:45: Dr. Doug's Phobias 1:27:15: Dr. Doug invents a new Phobia 1:27:45: Does clutch exist 1:30:03: Dr. Doug's best college basketball memory 1:31:31: Parting shots: Best advice Dr. Doug has ever gotten 1:32:48: Face-to-Face with 18-year-old self 1:33:50: The nerdiest podcast of all time 1:35:11: polsterperformance.com and Drdougpolster on Instagram 1:35:47: Play us out

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0:00.0	The following podcast is part of the underdog sports
0:07.9	podcasting network for a full list of our shows as well as breaking sports news and engaging feature stories.
0:15.4	Visit us at www. The Underdog Sports.com. Come.
0:29.0	Welcome to the sixth episode of Create Your Shot.
0:30.0	This week Smalls and I talk to Dr. Doug Polster. Dr. Doug's a sports... of He's currently based out of Los Angeles and he works at UCLA in the Steve Tish Brainsport
0:44.5	Concussion Clinic.
0:45.8	He also just recently opened up his own practice, Polster Performance.
0:50.3	Doug grew up surrounded by sports and even played Division 3 basketball at Johns Hopkins where he led the team in scoring his senior year.
0:57.0	And this was just a really fascinating conversation with a guy who's in a field that I just don't know very much about.
1:03.0	Obviously, sports performance and mental performance
1:06.7	is something that coaches talk about all the time.
1:09.0	And so it was really awesome to have Doug on.
1:11.0	He got really nerdy on us for part of the conversation and used a bunch of
1:13.7	big words, but at the same time he explained all of them and he goes really in depth.
1:18.7	And it's not a typical conversation you would imagine that you would have with the doctor. You know, we were worried a little bit that we would get dug on and it would be really, really clinical and really technical and guests might think, man, this is super, super boring. And in reality reality what it was was eye opening and so I don't want to
1:36.0	spoil too much because I think the time that we talked to Doug is is super fascinating and
1:40.1	I think for coaches and players and parents thinking about how you play how you
1:45.3	coach why you play I mean this is what it's all about to me so I won't take up too much
1:51.2	time with this intro.
1:53.0	As always, if you like what you hear,
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