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.

Okay, so that which gets praised gets for people.

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Players, thank for tune in, and you're listening to the Hardwood Hustle brought you by PGC basketball. Players, thank for tuning in. You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle. I'm your host, Adam Bradley, alongside T.J. Roseen. Today, we're continuing in our series pitfalls to avoid in how to get past them. We had an opportunity to pull a handful of coaches and get things from them that frustrate or annoy them that their players do.

And at the end of the day, players, we want to have a healthy, positive, working relationship with our coaches.

We want to be on the same page.

So as players, I think it's important for us to recognize what are some of these frustrations that coaches feel and work to get past it and work to improve upon it.

And today we're going to be talking about this topic.

One of the most frequent replies is simply pouting.

You know, players just not getting their way.

Things just not going in their favor.

Things not living up to their own expectations.

They're not getting the minutes they thought, the shots they wanted, the looks, the opportunities, you name it.

Maybe they felt like at some point they were treated unfairly.

Maybe there's some other dynamic going on within the program that they're upset about.

At the end of the day, they allow these frustrations and these factors to start playing a role within them players, and we're guilty of this at times and it ends

up coming out on the surface as pouting pouting just not giving our all pouting on the bench body language

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