Winning Mentality

We've seen it time and time again. Pick any sport and it happens every year. A team will be put together with immense talent and maybe even picked to win it all at the end of the season. Then the unexplainable happens. You say to yourself, how can this happen when the team has all of that talent? Is it team chemistry? Could be. But everyone respects each other and enjoys playing the game. Is it bad coaching? Could be. But the coach has a great history of winning seasons and even a few championships under his belt. What could it be?

Knowing that you have what it takes to win is not an easy thing to believe, much less an easy thing to enforce. You must have the necessary tools and knowledge of the game before you can believe. You have to prove it to yourself and others before it can be completely established. Finally, you must have been involved in losses, both as an individual and a teammate before you can believe it is possible.

Having the necessary tools and knowledge of the game comes from solid teaching, experience and a burning desire from within for the game and for success. It is not easy to find teaching that is suitable for your manner of learning. Everyone is different and learns differently. However, the good news is that the fundamentals of the game are the same and always will be. This idea is similar to the idea of a Math class in school. Not all Math teachers are able to express the way to approach and understand Algebra, for example. However, the concepts and principles of Algebra do not change and will never change. Therefore, you have to find the right teacher.

After obtaining the right tools and reaching an effective level of basketball knowledge you must put yourself to the test, and often. Playing in pickup games and with teams in leagues, non stop, as often as possible are going to prove that you have learned and developed what is necessary to get to the next level. Practice makes perfect, sure, but experience makes winners.

Winning isn't just something that happens because you obtained great teaching and have played in many games. Winning also isn't just a feet of luck either. Winning is earned and must be processed, learned from and enforced every time out. The greatest teacher of winning comes from the land of losing. This teacher's name is Loss. Loss helps you understand that there is always room for improvement, perfection is not possible and its going to take way more than you imagined to come out on top.

On top is where Swinsbasketball wants you to be. How about you?





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