“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. – Vince Lombardi We all want to succeed. Whether it’s in losing weight, learning the guitar, speed reading, or starting our…

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Good morning my dear hoopers. We hear people tell others not to judge them based on their past because they no longer live there. But then we turn around and judge ourselves harder. We remember every detail of a terrible experience, game, practice, conditioning sessions, test, etc, and we won’t allow ourselves to move on.…

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Good morning, hoopers! Sometime we concede to bad things happening. Sometimes we take unfortunate situations and are unable to find the positive it them. At times, we even take a positive outcome and never realize that it stemmed from the negative situation that we felt was the end of the world. If you change you…

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Good morning, hoopers! Sometimes we get fatigue, weary, and overwhelmed and just want to quit. Keep going! Sometimes we don’t know if we’ll make it, if it’s worth it, or if it’s what we truly want. Keep going! When things get tough and we start to question what we’re doing, why we started, and if…

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Good morning and happy Monday! Just dropping off a little inspiration for you hoopers (and others) today! In basketball, the odds are against you when you start to set your goals for getting achievement awards, getting a scholarship to a university.making it to the big league, etc. That’s why these things are so celebrated. The…

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Bobby Knight said this well. When it comes to basketball, you have to “know” and “understand” the game. Not everyone is blessed with sick athletic abilities and if you aren’t, that’s ok. How can you survive as a player when you can’t jump as hi as everyone, you can’t run as fast as the others,…

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Good morning hoopers and all. Let’s think about babies that will try anything. They explore every single thing they possibly can from trying to walk and eventually learning to run, to playing with fire and learning the dangers, to tasting sand, and hopefully not getting sick, to making noises and eventually talking. Babies have no…

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I just wanted to share this article with you all this morning in hopes that it may encourage you. Some seasons are ending, some have ended long ago. Some are still going but you’re not getting playing time. Don’t trip. Check out this article “Why Failure Leads to Success” “It’s not a magical drill that…

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Today I want to encourage all the hoopers (people as well) to just take the first step. The first step isn’t to go out and shoot 3 million shots. It’s not to practice defensive slides all day. It’s not to be able to dribble two and three balls at the same time. The first step…

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Happy Monday!! Just wanted to drop off a little bit of Morning Inspiration, Motivation and Encouragement for you all. Heck, for myself as well. As players, hoopers, students and people, we enter into the competitions with ourselves to be perfect. To not make mistakes. To do it right on the first try. To never fail…

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