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 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. You're listening to The Hardwood Hustle, brought you by PGC Basketball. Players, thank you for tuning in. You're listening to The Hardwood Hustle. I'm your host, Adam Bradley, alongside T.J. Roseanne, special thanks to our friends over at PGC basketball and lead them up and team snap for all their support of the Hardwood Hustle. Today, we're continuing in our series about pitfalls to avoid as a player and ways to get past them.

TJ, today we're talking about looking up at the stands all throughout the game, all during warm-ups.

We recently put a poll out to coaches and said, what are some of the things that frustrate you most about your players?

And this one showed up frequently.

This looking up, this kind of checking out the audience

who's in the stands you know waving to people nod into people almost like you're half there

half on the court you know it's like where is your mind really at i think that's what coaches are

wondering you know where is the focus at and players i think if we're honest we could could probably say, yeah, I'm guilty of that. Right? You know, I'm guilty. I'm going through warm-ups, and I'm checking out who's walking in the door. I'm checking out who's going to be in the house. And I recognize some of that's human nature, right? And, you know, just because you're curious and things like that. but we've got to be aware of what that potentially could be doing for us mentally pregame and during the game.

We also have to be aware of the coach's perception of that because at the end of the day, we want to have a good working relationship with our coaches.

And if there's something that they are getting frustrated about with that, I think we need to be sensitive to it. I think we need to talk about it. Yeah, I think, you know, looking up in the stands and warm-ups, like, I mean, that's not the end of the world, I think, because players are just kind of getting acclimated to the setting. I know as a coach, I even look up there sometimes to see if my wife and kids are there.

You know, and I know as a player,

like,

I'm wondering who's here and all that.

You just can't let it consume you.

You know what I mean?

A peek here and a peek there and just kind of getting your bearings about you. Like, I get that. But more importantly, is you get closer to the end of that warm-up

and you get closer to the game,

and especially when you're in the game,

like looking up in the stands can be really, really annoying,

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