1. Your coach is a ramp, not an obstacle. Watch your coach, pay attention to why he says what he says, the principle behind it. Ask specific questions and don’t run from honest feedback about your game. 2. learn to love the routine. Hated the “boring” stuff you had to go through to get to the actual game. Put together a solid warmup: both physical and skills based and add it to your pre game and any other session you have. Add onto it over time, make it fun. Once you get used to it and actually start to love it, that mentality seeps into your everyday life. 3. Relationships are everything. With teammates, coaches, opposing players. Use every opportunity to get a quick word in, shake a hand, play some 1-v-1 and build relationships. You won’t believe the fruit for both you and them!

Hey brother. If you’re still looking for ideas, shoot more your Instagram handle, I’ll send you some videos of stuff I use for kids.

@Heine Zerrudo 💪🏻

Interesting question. I passed this question on to my Russian players community: 8/12 said they’d win by +2-3 buckets. Mostly cause they got smarter 😂 A couple called shutout 💪🏻 Although age gotta be a factor here 😂

@Albert Reyna love this mindset bro.

Thanks for the response. Will be looking into your suggestions, esp about the 4-week academy route.