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 ones.

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 to 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, TeamSnap, and lead them up for all their support of the Harwood Hustle. Today we finish a four-part series about coaches traps and traps that coaches fall into and how we as players can respond.

Episode one, we talked about controlling coaches, TJ, and how do you respond to a controlling

coach?

Episode two of the series, critical coaches.

We've all seen them.

We've all heard them.

They have something negative to say about everything you do.

It's almost like you can never do anything good in the eyes of this coach.

How do you handle that as a player?

Episode three, we talked about avoiding coaches.

Those coaches that just aren't addressing the players or the issues or the habits at hand in our team and it's making you get to a point

where you just don't even care anymore because coaches is letting this player do this and

letting that player do that and you're just like screw it you know how do you handle that

situation today is a little interesting right because the player may say well i don't want to

...