"The reason people get good ideas in the shower is because it's the only time during the day when most people are away from screens long enough to think clearly. The lesson is not to take more showers, but rather to make more time to think." -James Clear

We are pumped as well Pro Skills Basketball !!!

“We recruit really talented NBA players that are willing to not make it about themself. To be a part of a winning group and to go for all the championships,” Dan Hurley Good players want a starring role on the team. Great players want to star in the role the team needs. 🎥

So true

Congrats David Adkins

Everyone wants to be a D1 player. That’s great. Aim high. However, are u D1 off the court. Are uD1 in the classroom? Are u D1 with your sleep? Are u D1 with your eating habits? Are u D1 with your weight training? Are you D1 with your character & behavior? Only u know the answers

When the feet, knees, and opposite shoulder are in alignment the player is loaded and ready to explode!! Too many coaches teach knees and feet to be externally rotated= wrong! Get your players to feel the quads as they are for quickness 🙌

Truth

You can have a bad shooting night. You can’t have a bad getting back night. You can’t have a ball watching night. You can’t have a no block outs night. You can’t have a no talking night. You can’t have have No Toughness night and expect to ever change a bad night.

Young players have no idea how good Greivis Vasquez was Big point guard that could do it all (Via Big Ten Men's Basketball 🎥)

There are approximately 5607 Men’s D1 basketball players. Only 135 of them are shooting better than 35% from three. Read that again.

“Never ever, ever, underestimate anybody” (Via Phil Beckner 🎥)

Basketball is played WITH the basketball 5% of the time. One of my favorites quotes from Billy Donovan is: ‘The other 95% of the time most players spend trying to get the basketball’. Players also can’t conceptualize the amount of time they have the ball in their hands in a

QOTD:

Always be a professional in your profession. The details, promptness, organization, and communication. Your product is a reflection of what you do every day.

If teenage athletes want to take a big step forward in development, it's wise to try to “out-sleep” and “out-eat” their peers. These two things are powerful "magnifiers" of everything they do in skill development and strength and conditioning.

Advice I would give to basketball athletes after watching this NCAA tourney… PRIORITZE THE WEIGHT ROOM! 🏋️‍♂️💪

“If you want to be successful, you need to be bad. Then you need to be good and when you are good, you need to fail. When you fail, you’re going to figure it out. There is a process. There are steps you need to fill. There are no shortcuts, it’s a journey,” Nikola Jokic

You are responsible for your role on the team.

The amount of teams/coaches still making college athletes wake up at 6 am (or earlier) to train, lift, & practice is 🤯🤯🤯. The data are incredibly clear here. Bad idea.