The 3 Minute Manager

Sometimes you're going to have off shooting days.
It will take trial and error, but learn not to freak
out and go into an emotional tailspin. Let go and
'forgive' yourself. Go back to your basics, your
fundamentals, and you'll figure out why you're
missing.

So if you play your cards right you'll grow as a
shooter and learn a lot. Even if you don't pull out of
it right away, don't lose heart. You've still got a
game to win. You don't get a pass on that.

According to Richie Alfred at the Mansfield Texas
High School you can still have a great game.

'when a player had his head down because he's
been having an off game shooting remember that
is only 10 % of the game.

You play defense for 50% of the time, and you have
5 players on offense, so simple maths says you can
still control the other 90% and have a great game.

I like to use this breakdown with my players. A
high school game is 32 minutes. If each team has the
ball half the time, your team has it for 16 minutes. If
we only played 5 players, and they all handled it an
equal amount of time, they would have the ball just
over 3 minutes per game.

Factor in playing more than 5 players and the point
guard handling it more than everyone else and it's
less than 3 minutes.

So we like to tell our players it's often what you do
with the 'OTHER' 29 minutes that will determine
whether we win or lose.'

That's another angle on winning the mental game of
shooting as taught by Coach Stan Kellner too. Get a
complete mental makeover from his 'Prime Time
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but you can always give it to one of your teammates
who does. Lay hold of it today at:

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Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Make sure to honor a veteran in some way today.
Without them I doubt if we'd be able to enjoy the great
game of basketball the way we all do.

Make Every Shot Count