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 cheap as.

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 brought you by GGC basketball.

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I'm your host Adam Bradley alongside T.J. Roseen.

Today we're continuing in our series pitfalls to avoid and how to get past them.

We had a chance to interview and pull a handful of coaches and ask them, what are the frustrations that your players do that really just get under your skin?

And they share it a whole variety of different things.

And we're kind of sharing those for players with the hopes that you become more aware and sensitive and give you some tips to get past them.

Because at the end of the day, as a player, you want to have a good, healthy working relationship with your coaches.

And if there are things that you're

doing that are creating barriers or challenges or frustrations, you need to be aware of it. Okay,

that's the bottom line. So today we're going to be talking about going through reps, not at game

speed. This was brought up by a handful of different coaches, TJ, going through reps, not at game speed.

So you're in practice and a coach lays out an exercise or a drill and players are going

through it, but they're going through it clearly and visibly at 75%.

Right?

And coaches are sitting back recognizing that, okay, we are not growing at 75%. You're never going to do that drill at 75% in the

game. Why are you doing it now? And then coaches begin players, just so you know, they begin to

start thinking deeper. Coaches naturally are analytical, right? They're analyzing, analyzing

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