Friday, 24 May 2013

Unstoppable drive

Some people will never acknowledge you no matter what. You can't gain recognition with them.

Those thoughts were in my head for most of the basketball games today, especially during one game where i touched the ball only once. if playing nba2k, my rebounding stat would probably be 3/20 or something so i can't really "get it myself". I still scored on that one time i got the ball, but it didnt matter. I still didnt get the ball after that. I was thinking negative thoughts, and it affected my shooting which i worked so hard on.

I think differently now.

I won't work on my shot anymore, at least not as much. The best i can probably get it to is maybe 50%, and it won't gain me any recognition in this crowd. In my other games, they only remember my makes; in this crowd they only remember my misses.

I won't change my basketball play. Its not that i don't want to. I honestly tried today. I tried so hard i got a headache. But i dont understand any of it. Team play, off the ball movement. When i cut in i don't get the ball. And i know its not just that my team doesn't trust me either. My off the ball movement is absolutely atrocious. So i won't care about it since i can't figure it out.

Some might say for all my technique, i don't know how to play the game at all. In that case, i agree. I don't know how to play the game that way. I don't know how to play it the proper way. I only know how to play it the fun way; the entertaining way. 

Right now i'm not having fun with this crowd because i don't dare to play my basketball. But soon i will.

Because i know what i have to work on now.

In this crowd, i won't shoot the ball from outside. I usually get the ball outside, but i won't shoot it.

I will master an unstoppable drive. My conversion off the drive was about 70%, but obviously it wasn't enough as this crowd is the exception crowd that only remembers my misses.

Its simple. Very simple. I just won't miss.

My step through and my spin cycle and my reverse shot and my floating layup. I will make them all 100%.

My step through is alrdy 100%, so nothing to work on there.

I will actually train reverse shots, and not just the standard ones. I will train the ones that i always miss; the ones high off the board. I will make them 100%.

My floating layup is 100% too, since its really nothing but a layup for me as i'm usually guarded by smalls nowadays and can ignore them under the basket.

My spin cycle was disgusting today. I think it didnt even work once. So this is the difference when there is help defence. I keep getting the ball poked away midspin by the help defence. Simple. Very simple. I will make my spin cycle unguardable too by using random movements with the ball midspin. It won't be easy to control, but i will do it.

I will make my drives completely unstoppable.

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