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How to bounce back from a bad basketball game
How to Bounce Back From a Bad Game
Maintaining Confidence After a Bad Performance
Every athlete in every sport will have a bad performance. There are no exemptions from this rule… It is true for all athletes.
Yes, it stinks… Yes, it is hard to take… And, yes, sometimes it happens at the most inopportune times…
You can’t change that bad game, poor play, or shaky performance. That competition is in the past.
What you can control is how you respond and how you improve for the next competition.
With the right mindset, you can maintain a high level of confidence and quickly bounce back from a bad performance.
Lauri Markkanen is a rookie power forward with the Chicago Bulls and has no shortage of confidence.
After one college basketball season with the University of Arizona, Markkanen entered the 2017 NBA draft and was the 7th overall pick.
Confidence is often a struggle for such young players and, with being selected high in the draft, expectations can feel overwhelming which weighs heavy on a player’s confidence.![]()
Despite all this, Markkanen has maintained a level of confidence even after having a bad game.
In one of the Bulls’ last preseason games, Markkanen had a dreadful game shooting 1-for-9, including 0-for-6 from three-point range.
MARKKANEN: “I just try to get back to the gym as quickly as possible and work on things. Watch film, what did I do wrong, missed shots and stuff like that. I’m ready to move on and play the next game. That’s what I love about this challenge. There’s a next one coming up quick.”
Two nights later, Markkanen bounced back from his previous poor performance and shot 7-for-12 overall and 4-for-7 from three-point range against one of the league’s best teams, the Cleveland Cavaliers.
How is Markkanen able to maintain his confidence and bounce back after a bad performance, even while facing great pressure?
There are a few mindsets at play that can help you bounce back after a bad performance.
You can maintain your confidence by controlling what you can control:
- You can control your effort.
- You can learn from your past.
- You can look to improve your technique.
- You can let go of the past.
- You can focus on what is in front of you.
- You can focus on your strengths, talents and successes.
- You can choose a positive attitude.
If you want to maintain a high degree of confidence and quickly bounce back after a bad performance, have a mindset similar to Markkanen and tell yourself, “There’s another competition coming up,” to prepare for.
A Tip for Bouncing Back from a Bad Performance:
Control the Controllables – First, you need to identify what is under your control and those things which you cannot control.
Learn and Grow – Since you have no control over what has already happened, you need learn from the past and grow for the future.
Remember always, it’s not what happened that matters most; it is how you respond to what has happened that will make the biggest impact on future performances.
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How To React After Having a Bad Game
Do You Have Positive Self-Talk Or Negative Self-Talk After Games?
Self-talk is the primary determinant of how you perform in a competition.
At no time is self-talk more important than after having a poor game.
The things you say to yourself after a bad performance will determine if one bad game snowballs into the next few games.
If you want to rebound after a bad game, you need to manage your self-talk instead of allowing self-criticism to dominate your mind and ruin your future play.
You can easily talk your way into a slump by saying things such as, “I can’t buy a shot,” “I play bad in the playoffs” or “Here we go again… My bad luck is just going to continue.”
Negative self-talk affects your confidence causing you to second guess your game for fear you will miss again. Negative self-talk leads to lower self-confidence and guarantees another bad game.
Some players think positive self-talk is just a pie-in-the-sky approach, as if they are merely giving themselves a false pep talk.
These players feel positive self-talk is merely a lie they tell themselves and simply does not work.
Positive self-talk is not an attempt to talk yourself into something; positive self-talk is a form of self-coaching.
Your coach has a game plan for how to defend your opponent and win the game. Self-coaching or positive self-talk is a way of defending yourself against negative thoughts in order to play your best and win the mental game.
Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder is considered one of the best and most consistent scorers in the NBA…
Durant averaged 28.2 points per game this season with a 50% field goal percentage and averages 28.7 points during the playoffs over his career.
In Game Two of the Thunder’s first round playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks, Durant struggled and shot 7-of-33 as the Thunder lost 85-84.
Durant’s 26 misses were the most he ever had in his professional career. How did he react?
DURANT: “Bad shooting night for me. It’s a part of it. I wish it didn’t happen tonight, but it’s a part of it.-Step-5.jpg/aid43486-v4-728px-Play-21-(Basketball)-Step-5.jpg)
Got some great looks all night and just didn’t knock ’em down. Just stick with my routine, don’t do too much extra, and go out there tomorrow and get ready for practice.”
Durant realized his poor performance was an anomaly, not here to stay. Durant knows he is a good shooter and that every player has bad games.
Durant’s self-talk remained positive. Due to his positive self-talk, Durant was able to bounce back in Game Three and finished with 34 points, seven rebounds and three assists to help the Thunder secure the win.
Tip for how to react better to a poor game:
Remember that self-talk can work for you or against you, so you need to control the conversation in your head. Instead of letting your thoughts run wild, consciously remind yourself of three things:
- Everyone has bad games.
- This bad game is not an indication that you have lost your ability.
- Recall your recent performances where you played your best.
Consciously directing the conversation in your head is the key to bouncing back and performing optimally.
Don’t forget to remind yourself of your talents and what you have as an athlete–those things that stay with you no matter what.
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Sport 07 March 2018
The most unusual qualifying tournament for the World Basketball Championship in history is held by the Russian men's team with varying success.
Recently, our team lost to the French in overtime, but defeated the Bosnians at home. Note that the role of the leader of the national team in the current cycle had to be taken over by Zenit Sergey Karasev.
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We have already talked in detail about the irreconcilable conflict between the International Federation of Basketball Associations (FIBA) and the Euroleague. Now it is obvious that the war between the two warring organizations can drag on for many years. This means that qualifying for the 2019 World Cup risks turning into a farce entirely. After all, the Euroleague has collected almost all the cream of European basketball, forced to play for their clubs on the days of national team matches. Almost everyone suffers, but Russia, which has two teams at once (CSKA and Khimki) in the Euroleague, has been battered by behind-the-scenes bureaucratic battles almost more than the rest.
So for the games with the French and the Bosnians, the head coach of the national team Sergei Bazarevich was left without a number of key basketball players, led by the star trinity in the person of Alexei Shved, Andrei Vorontsevich and Nikita Kurbanov.
In general, taking into account the injured and playing in the NBA center Timofey Mozgov, Russia lost ten basketball players at once in the February games! But you still need to play. As well as for the first time since 2010 to reach the final part of the World Cup. Bazarevich did not quarrel, tear his hair out, but tried to remain calm. But the prospect of losing Karasev Jr. clearly frightened even the cold-blooded Bazarevich. The fact is that during the all-star match, where Sergey received the MVP title, he also injured his hand.
Fortunately for the national team, Karasev quickly managed to recover and scored 16 points with the French in Strasbourg. “Why did you start scoring only after the break? The excitement subsided. Emotions always play in the beginning, the desire to prove. In the second half let it all go. Like the whole team, ”said Sergey. Indeed, after four misses from behind the arc, he issued three long-range hits in a row, including equalizing the score with a minute and a half before the end of normal time.
He could bring the national team and victory, but blurred the most important shot. And in overtime, the French were more successful (75:74). It's good that in the next meeting Karasev and the company, including Vitaly Fridzon who joined, defeated Bosnia and Herzegovina in Perm (70:53).
Then Sergey scored 11 points. Judging by his playing time (an average of more than thirty minutes per match) and the trust of the coach and partners in the endings, it is Karasev who is the main engine of the national team in the current qualifying round. Zenit Evgeny Valiev is also involved as a useful player in the rotation. As for another basketball player of the St. Petersburg club, Yevgeny Voronov, Bazarevich has been ignoring him for a long time. As well as Anton Ponkrashov, a pupil of St. Petersburg basketball, who plays for UNICS. The mentor did not change his attitude even in the face of an acute shortage of personnel. Well, Bazarevich proved his professional suitability with the fourth place at EuroBasket 2017.
So, it can form a composition without regard for criticism.
Another thing is if the national team stumbles in the selection for the world championship. According to the regulations, the three best teams from the quartets (the results of the matches between them are taken into account) advance to the second stage. Where, together with another trio, three trips to the tournament in China will be played. So far, the Russians have two wins in four matches. To qualify for the second stage in the remaining matches (June 29 away against Belgium and July 2 at home against France), they only need to win one victory.
Basketball. World Cup 2019.
Qualification. First stage. After 4 rounds.
1. France - 4 wins.
2. Russia - 2.
3. Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2.
4. Belgium - 0.
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Khimki lost to Baskonia in the Euroleague
Khimki near Moscow lost to Spanish Baskonia in the away match of the 24th round of Euroleague Basketball. "Gazeta.Ru" tells about the meeting in Vitoria.
Exactly one week before Khimki football team Spartak visited Baskonia. A trip to the north of Spain, as you know, did not bring positive emotions either to the red-and-whites themselves or to their fans - Massimo Carrera's team, although they won on the road, left the Europa League in the sum of two matches, while the fans of Muscovites completely felt the whole the power of provocation by local media, one of the results of which was the death of a policeman.
Putting aside the extremely strange behavior of the press and the municipality of Bilbao, the clash with Athletic once again reminded the Russians that the Basques are excellent fighters, able to “gnaw out” even those fights in which they seem to have almost no chances.
The residents of Khimki experienced something similar on the first day of spring.
Fortunately, this time there were no multiple fan-police skirmishes, however, domestic basketball players still failed to get out of Baskonia with a shield - and again the character of local athletes played a decisive role in this, which allowed them not to fall into absolute despair after an unsuccessful start.
But it all started for the yellow-blues and it was really amazing - having presented an exemplary defense to their opponents, the Russians led for a long time with a slight advantage only thanks to it, and then, adding to the defense also excellent work in finishing attacks, they completely rushed away from opponents on way to the next, already the fourth in a row, victory in the Euroleague.
It was really not easy to recover from such a “hook”: after all, -14 on the scoreboard, even before the end of the first quarter, with their fans, they hit hard on the general mood of the team, especially when the opponent, against your background, manages almost everything with external ease.
However, the Basques pulled themselves together, and their return to the game began right in the opening ten-minute period.
Having brought the score to an encouraging 26:12, the guests allowed themselves a short respite, for which the Spaniards immediately punished them with two accurate three-pointers - an eight-point advantage at the end of the starting segment of the meeting, of course, was also pleasing to the eye, but it did not look so impressive.
However, as it turned out later, it was only a warm-up: sensing some relaxation of Khimki, Pedro Martinez's men, after a short break, only continued to slowly but surely level the gap.
In this case, Baskonia's fans should especially thank the suddenly turned on defense and their, perhaps, the best player - Georgian Tornike Shengelia.
It worked like this - when defending their own ring, the hosts did not try to take everything at once, focusing only on those episodes in which the team of Georgios Bartzokas could potentially score easy points, while their powerful forward from some moment began to literally burn out “paint » Vice-champions of the United League, which neither Thomas Robinson's access to the court nor the defensive five could fully prevent.
The Spaniards seemed to say to Khimki: “You will score as much as you can against us, hitting difficult throws through your hands or with a deflection, and we will answer you with what we must.”
And so it actually happened: during the entire second quarter, the guests managed to score points only with the most difficult hits, while their peplums were completely deprived of easy points.
Naturally, this also affected the score - by the big break, the Russians not only did not have a convincing advantage, but were completely inferior by five points.
Aleksey Shved's crazy hit with a siren across the entire court could have added the necessary charge of positive yellow-blue, but the scorer was a little unlucky - and the main "highlight" of the Euroleague in March, the defender lacked some pitiful millimeters.
Only a cursory glance at the statistical calculations during a long pause was enough to understand what exactly the club from the Moscow region is experiencing the most problems on the reporting evening -
with other more or less equal indicators, the Russians outright lost the shield (14-23), allowing to the same Shengelia to knock out grandmaster 9+8 rebounds already at the equator of the fight.
Nothing has changed even after the resumption of the game: keeping the proper spirit, the Basques continued to increase their advantage and by the third minute of the quarter they were +10, and by the middle of it they were even +15.
Himchane, we must give them their due, seeing the complete control of the opponents over the fortune, they did not let go of their hands, continuing to fight in each of the episodes, however, this did not help to take away the courage from the Basques who entered the “fire”.
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Shengelia continued to bring huge difficulties to the guests (15+15 by the final siren) - the Georgians, being on the floor, almost single-handedly solved the attack of his team, either completing approaches on their own, or, seeing the doubling of the Russians, giving to partners left unattended.
Bartzokas' wards made a decisive attempt to save the match that had recently seemed already won at the start of the fourth quarter, which they entered with a lag of 17 points.
A 7-0 spurt in three and a half minutes came in handy here – exactly how long the hosts could not open an account in the segment, thus creating noticeable excitement in the stands.
However, the hopes of the Russian soon practically destroyed the second star basketball player of the Basque Country, Rodrigue Biebua, who once became the NBA champion.
