How to be the best basketball player ever

How to Become a Better Basketball Player

Do you play basketball? Have you ever thought of becoming the best player in the court? This article is here to help you improve your basketball skills and become the best in the game. You have seen the list of the best basketball players in the world.

The likes of LeBron James, Michael Jordan, the late Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, and Magic Johnson all started like you. All they had was a dream and no skills. How did they make it? What made them rise to become the best basketball players of their times? Was it their condition, skills, strength, agility, and power?

In this article, we’ll look at the best tips you can borrow to become the best basketball player. Let’s go!

Be fearless

Do not be afraid to fail. It is through mistakes that we learn. Always encourage yourself to beat the records you have set. Do not see yourself as weak or someone who can’t do it. Never mind what your friends, family, or teammates will say. Try to overcome your fears. Hit the gym, train hard, and go the extra mile to improve your weaknesses. Avoid saying there is a stretch or part you can’t play. Try harder, and in the end, you will notice some good results.

Know your role

Know where you have been positioned in your team. Remember that you are not working alone but as a part of a team. Know your position on the court and acknowledge it. You can’t be everywhere, doing everything. If you are not comfortable with the role you have been allocated, talk to your teammates or coach. Ask for a change to a more suitable position.

By knowing your part, you will put all your skills into it, practice and hone your skills to become the best. Also, understand who is your immediate teammate, your role mate, and what roles your teammates are taking.

Learn and study the game

Always try to learn and practice the game to be the best. There are many resources out there that you can read or watch to become the best basketball player. YouTube can be an excellent platform for training.

Vertical jumps, especially, can be hard to learn if you are new in the game. Luckily for you, this excellent vertical jump resource has done the hard digging for you, with a review of the top exercises you can utilize to enhance your vertical jumps quickly.

As opposed to most exercises out there that can be faulty, these are known to deliver the right results within a short timeframe. You only need to set your goals and dedicate yourself to them.

You might have the best skills, but without dedication, you won’t succeed. Understand the game and dedicate yourself to becoming an all-time performer.

Give your all

When practicing, playing or training, always try to give your best. Do not look at what anyone else is offering. Just try to be you and give it all you have. Avoid excuses and complaints, and always try to accept criticisms and corrections from your coach or people who are more experienced than you.

Take mistakes as a stepping stone and accept where you are wrong while improving on your weaknesses. Errors enable every individual to enhance, so make them work to your benefit.

Keep improving your skills

Being skilled in a game does not mean you stop acquiring more. Always try to learn from others and also through online platforms. With the advancement of the internet and other learning modules, you can easily acquire new skills even without paying for them.

Remember, in any field, the more you focus on one thing, the more you lose on improving others. It would be best if no skills were left behind. Follow the trends and be updated on every aspect of your game.

Avoid complaints

Do not be a complainer when you lose something. Never blame your coach or teammates when something does not work out. Be responsible and always learn how to fix issues. However, you need to accept that some situations are not within your control and always avoid anger, stress, and bad attitudes towards your teammates.

If possible, always encourage team building to bond with your teammates. Avoid evil thoughts and emotions while in the game. Focus on scoring and give it your best.

There are other tips which you can also borrow that include training both your body and mind, along with developing other capabilities. In this article, we have discussed some of the main aspects of improvement, hoping they will help you in your basketball career. Always try to give your best no matter the situation.

There is much competition out there, and everyone at any time hopes to outshine you. Use the advice provided in this article plus others to make yourself better. Provide your best to be on the top of your game.

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LeBron James: 5 Ways for LeBron to Become the Best Basketball Player of All Time | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

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LeBron James: 5 Ways for LeBron to Become the Best Basketball Player of All Time

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LeBron James has a chance to surpass Michael Jordan and become the greatest basketball player of all time. However, there are several things he needs to accomplish to achieve that status.  

Many of you are already dismissing this possibility, but if you look into the future of what lies in the path of LeBron from now until his retirement, plenty of situations can arise.

Not thinking of what he has done so far, but rather what he still can do, you have to realize that it lies within the realm of possibility.

No. 5: Develop a Post Game

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LeBron refuses to go down low. This doesn’t make any sense and is a big reason why people say Kobe Bryant is a better player than LeBron in the past few years. 

Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant’s offensive game can beat you on the perimeter if a bigger and slower player is guarding them, but also go down in the post if a smaller, quicker player is guarding them. In short, to guard Michael or Kobe, you have to pick your poison.

LeBron can only beat you by facing you up. Either LeBron is shooting a jump shot, which isn’t as high of a shooting percentage as it is in the post, or LeBron drives into the lane.

That’s it.

The problem is he’s not always going to be able to get a good shot off or be able to drive into the lane if a fast defensive player can step in front of him and cut him off.

According to NBA.com, LeBron is 6'8" 250 pounds. Implementing a post game would allow him to take that fast defensive player and dominate him down low. The only defense he would be able to put on LeBron would be to foul him.

No. 4: Develop a Go-To Unstoppable Shot

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had the sky hook. Michael Jordan had his fadeaway jumper that was later copied by Kobe Bryant. Currently Dirk Nowitzki has his one leg fadeaway jumper that is killing the Thunder.

LeBron has nothing.

On the 1990s Bulls team or whatever team Kareem was currently on, when the team’s offense became stagnant or the team needed a bucket, it relied on Jordan or Kareem to score with his unstoppable shot.

In Game 4 of the Western Conference finals the Mavericks relied on Dirk to use his unstoppable shot to bring them back from a 15-point deficit.

The Miami Heat do not have this option. Instead they simply go isolation and hope that LeBron or Dwyane Wade can make something happen.

At the end of regulation in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals, the Heat's play was LeBron iso, and he ran over the defender for an offensive foul.

If LeBron implemented a post game, as previously discussed, he could easily try to include something similar to Michael’s fadeaway or Kareem’s sky hook.

LeBron physically is a freak of nature. He’s taller and stronger than Michael Jordan, so copying him exactly wouldn’t be necessary.

But he needs something—a shot that makes any defensive effort against LeBron have zero chance of keeping him from scoring.

We are seeing it with Dirk in the Western Conference finals. If LeBron is to surpass Jordan as the best of all time, we need to start seeing it in the Eastern Conference finals.

No. 3: Improve on His Likability

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After “The Decision” last July, most of the public has been anti-LeBron, even though it doesn’t make complete sense because he raised millions of dollars for the Boys and Girls Club and decided to play with one other star, two if you consider Chris Bosh a star.

Why would he stay in Cleveland playing with no other stars when playing with one other star increases his chances of winning a championship from 7.1 percent with one star to 25 percent with two stars, according to the book Scorecasting by Tobias Moskowitz and Jon Wertheim? If you include Chris Bosh as a star, your chances of winning a championship with three stars are 39 percent.

However, people make decisions emotionally and then only listen to facts or logic that back up their already preconceived stance on a subject. So if you hate LeBron since “The Decision,” then you have just absently read these past two paragraphs.

Because people are just going to irrationally hate LeBron, becoming as likable as Michael Jordan is going to be tough.

Even though LeBron is a much better teammate than Michael Jordan—he once punched a teammate, and he doesn’t have a gambling problem—people still love Jordan more than LeBron James since “The Decision.”

LeBron needs to go back to making funny, family-friendly commercials. Similar to what Michael Jordan did to become a household name, LeBron needs to go back to making more State Farm commercials and actively find other sponsors to do commercials for. Yes, this has nothing to do with on-the-court success but this is about his legacy, and if people don’t like you, they are not going to remember you fondly enough when you stop playing basketball.

Michael Jordan hasn’t played basketball for almost a decade, yet he is still on TV doing commercials, keeping him ahead of LeBron in likability and helping keep him No. 1 as the best player of all time.

Would anyone be surprised if Michael Jordan still does those Hanes commercials because he felt it would help him stay the best player ever?

No. 2: Continue to Work Towards 10,000 Hours of Purposeful Practice

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If you read either Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell or Bounce by Matthew Syed, you would have learned that the elite in a particular field have all put in at least 10,000 hours of purposeful practice.

There was a study done on concert violinists. They interviewed three different groups of people: the elite soloists that were the best violinists, violinists that are in the orchestra but not first chair like the first group and people who were only music teachers.

The only difference in these three groups was the amount of purposeful practice they put in.

As you can guess, the best violinists had put in at least 10,000 hours of practice, whereas the second group had only put in around 7,000 and the music teachers around 2,000 hours.

What separated Michael Jordan from everyone else was his work ethic. He practiced harder and put in more hours than everyone else. This is what made Michael Jordan the best player of all time.

LeBron has to continue to work harder than everyone else. Kobe Bryant works harder than everybody else in the league, which is why he has been the best player in the league. LeBron has to take over that title of the hardest-working player in the league.

If LeBron can’t work harder than everyone else in the league, then he won’t be the best player in the league. If LeBron is never the best player in the league, how can he be the best player of all time?

No. 1: Win at Least Five Rings

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When you are talking about the best players of all time, you have to take into account how many titles a player has won.

Charles Barkley will always be remembered for never winning a championship. He should have won the 1993 championship if Kevin Johnson played to his potential, but no one remembers that. All they remember is he never won a championship.

LeBron currently has never won a championship either. Because of this he is fighting to be in the top-10 list of players of all time. If he wins just one, he will be vaulted up to the top five.

But this is what LeBron needs to do to be considered the best player of all time. Michael Jordan has six titles, so getting to at least five championships will give him a fighting chance to be considered better than Michael Jordan.

Certainly, if the Miami Heat go crazy and win 10 championships, I believe that argument won’t be necessary because it would obviously be LeBron James as the best basketball player of all time.

Winning is what everyone remembers. Everyone remembers that it was Michael Jordan’s Bulls that won the 1993 NBA championship, not that Charles Barkley’s Suns team was better and should have won that year.

LeBron has a great chance at winning several championships—as we found earlier, at least a 25 percent chance of winning a championship every year.

Ultimately it is up to LeBron James whether he is considered the best player of all time. Ten years from now we will all forget about the impact of “The Decision” and instead remember all the championships he won because of it.

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How can a basketball player develop without access to the gym?

4 tips to become a better player, athlete and personality

It happens to everyone that you want to train, move forward, progress, but there is no access to the court and the gym. This article contains 4 recommendations for this case. Read and apply.

1. Start monitoring your nutrition and sleep

One of the most important components of progress and development on the site is recovery, and nutrition and sleep are its foundation. Without this, stretching, contrast showers and everything else make little sense.

So you can not sit if you sleep 4 hours a day

2. Work on your body

This does not always require a basketball hall or even a gym. Charging, yoga and stretching, some other recovery procedures (only with a really heavy load), core is the minimum that can be done at home.

In fact, at the initial stage, it is possible to exercise effectively and beneficially for the body at home. Add this and you will already become the best around, because you will train more.

Images from our online school where you can train at home

3. Analyze matches

This will help you better understand the game and increase your basketball IQ. Analyze your game and the game of professionals you want to be like, analyze your opponent. And always pay attention to details.

Kobe Bryant was a crazy basketball player down to the last detail. He watched the matches and noticed the details so much that he knew how his opponent would act in any situation. In his book, he described a moment where, thanks to analysis, Kobe dunked through the center opponent, because he knew how he would put his hand to resist, and was able to remove it.

Curry said that when he watches his games, he pauses and notes what decisions he can make. Then he chooses the best and turns on the tape to test himself in the game. You can do that too.

You can also look at professionals. You turn on the match of a player you are similar in style to and follow his every move.

Kobe does not waste time and watches the game during the flight

4. Learn

Read books, watch educational and useful videos, be interested in something else. You may not become a professional basketball player, but you can always become a good person.

To be successful in the game, one must not only have good athleticism and skills. Knowledge in psychology will help you better understand the actions of opponents. Communication skills will help build better relationships with teammates. Good time management will allow you to use your time more efficiently. A successful career consists not only of playing on the court, but also of acting outside of it.

We add material and tools to the online school that help not only in basketball, but also in life. Some guys start to study better and do more things in a day, because they become more disciplined and learn a lot of new things. This is important because life does not end with basketball.

LeBron has been using the slogan "More than an athlete" for several years now. Because basketball goes beyond the sport where everything ends in the hall. Now this is life.

Nikita Yamshchikov

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