Achieve Your Basketball Goals
Some people may think that goals have a definite timeline to accomplish. In part, this is true, but there are certainly ways to shave time off of achieving your hoop goals. Here are some guidelines.
Step One: Stop Making Excuses
Things can be accomplished more quickly if you realize that your excuses only keep you from achieving your goals. If you can’t do a left handed layup, work on it every time you’re in the gym. You’re not going to get better by simply watching somebody else shoot left-handed layups. And you’re certainly not going to get better by avoiding working on it.
Listen, every great player has weaknesses but they only become great players by working on those parts of their game.
Step Two: Set Up Specific Short-term Targets
If it’s your goal to become a “double-double” player, start by becoming a mid single-single player. In other words, strive to get 5 and 5 in the two categories you want the double double in. For instance, if you want to be a 10 point, 10 rebound a game type of baller, then consistently get 5 in each category over several games.
Step Three: Don’t Beat Yourself Up
Consistency, discipline and dedication always give you faster and better results but let’s not be ridiculous and start saying “I’m such a bad player” when you have an okay practice or game. Nobody’s perfect and perfection does not exist. So, stop being that person that tries to get attention by saying how bad you are. Nobody likes being on the team with that guy or girl.
So, be accountable and responsible for your performance, yes, but once it’s done, it’s done. Move on to correcting whatever caused you to have a bad game, and get ready for the next one.
ABOUT COACH FRAN
Coach Fran Harris was a member of the Houston Comets’ first WNBA Championship team in 1997 and captain and leading scorer on the University of Texas at Austin’s NCAA Championship team. She’s coached and trained girls, boys, women and men ages 4-65 as a varsity high school coach, grad assistant coach at UT, head coach of a men’s professional team, head coach of Texas Hustle elite club team and creator of the Fran Harris Fantasy Camp for men and women. She’s also an ESPN and Longhorn Network Play-by-Play Announcer, Color Analyst & Studio Host. She’s the creator of Fran Harris Basketball, a premier training and education company that reaches millions of girls and boys through camps, clinics, training and seminars worldwide. For more tips to help you become a successful student-athlete, visit http://GirlsBasketballTrainer.net