Sometimes you can improve by simply working hard. You may peak at 35% 3P but not any higher or even consistently. Continuing to work hard won’t help. You’ll need to work a lot smarter to not only eek out more %pts but to also be consistently efficient. Mike Griggs, Coach

The game is always speaking to the player and the player to the game. It’s my responsibility as a coach to offer guidance and translation of what the game is saying to the player and what the player says back to the game. The most important conversation is between the player…

The “Lab.” Lots of kids, parents, & coaches like to post about being in the “lab” and usually include a clip. A player can be in the lab all off-season and still come out with very little transferable growth. They might be great in the lab on air or cones for clips yet never…

Bronze = 9th Platinum = 12th Reaching or getting very close to these #s is very attainable for HS players. Compare your stat line. If not on track, then better begin to work smarter to catch up. It’s not hard or rocket science yet it’s not easy either. Mike Griggs, Coach

What if it DOES work? Mike Griggs, Coach GA Shooting Academy Georgia Basketball Academy

Are you spending energy on hoping for an easier path or on building the strength to carry on?

Too bad our brain doesn’t let us know when it’s empty like our stomach does. 🤔

In the game, and life, we’ll experience the best of ourself & the worst of ourself. Both require self-awareness & regulation so we keep from becoming too big headed or beat ourselves up. Both can be detrimental to our continued success. Mindfulness Matters.

It’s extremely rare for anything that helps us grow to be comfortable at the beginning. Anytime growth is the desired outcome we will be uncomfortable. So…continued growth means a level of uncomfortableness will always be present. How we manage it will determine our success.

All we can do is everything we can do. The challenge is we don’t want to do everything that is needed or we don’t know what is needed. Both require more effort & attention which, many times, we just aren’t willing to do.

What you did last game or last practice may have been great yet, what are you going to do this practice or this game is even more important to ask.

When we are constantly telling players what do to, how to do it and when, we are actually making weaker players physically & mentally. Just bcuz we “think” we know it all and what is best doesn’t mean it’s effective to always speak. Mike Griggs, Coach

Can we become so focused on what matters that we aren’t distracted by what doesn’t? GA Shooting Academy

Opportunity For Action: when you walk into a weight room and see the rack of dumbbells from light to heavy, you immediately know, based on your strength what you can lift successfully. And, if you eventually want to lift heavier then you have to stress your muscles by lifting…

The more I learn about the brain, movement & learning the more I realize how much I don’t know and I want to keep learning so I can better help the kids & coaches I work along side with. What a freak’n fun journey it is!!!! GA Shooting Academy

Can we push through the discomfort, the setbacks, the disappointments, the stresses, the sheer pain that would break & stop most people? If so, that is what will separate us. That is what will propel us to be the best we can be as well as to take others with us.GA Positive Performance Academy

Learning, Growth & Satisfaction occurs during the process. It’s not found in the outcome.