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How to gain confidence in basketball
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In basketball, confidence is the key to your success. Conversely, lack of confidence can stifle your growth and lead to giving up or quitting altogether. Let’s break it down to help you develop unwavering confidence on the court.
Preparation
Put in the work! The first step to building confidence is putting in the work on the court. Practice, practice, practice, work on your game, study your opponents, and prepare your mind.
Confidence is increased when you have hit that shot hundreds of times in your driveway and know you can do it again in a game.
Set S.M.A.R.T goals! Goal setting is important to your basketball success. S.M.A.R.T.is an acronym for the five important elements in goal setting. Learn about how create your own S.M.A.R.T. goals for on and off the basketball court. Click here to get started with our goal setting guide.
Measure your progress in practice. How many shots did you make? How quick did you dribble through the cones?
It’s important to measure your results to see where you are week-after-week to show your improvement. Keep a practice log. This helps you see the progress you are making to quiet the doubts that you aren’t getting better or seeing progress.
Assess your game, what are your strengths weaknesses and know which ones can be used in the game. Don’t try out that new move when the game is on the line but first in practice, or in a game situation which wont be as costly if it goes poorly.
Add consequences to your practice to add game like pressure. If you miss a shot run a lap, do push ups, or skip 10 minutes of screen time.
Practice at game speed. Catch and shoot as if you were in a game setting. Workout with higher skilled players to add increased pressure.
Positive Thinking & Mindset
Post game, don’t focus on all the bad moments you had. Reflect but be productive, what could you do different the next time? What progress have you made? What did you do well?
Increase Your Positive Thinking & Mindset
Listen to podcasts >> Life Time Talks - The Power of Mindset
Create a basketball journal or blog - write about your journey, your goals, the progress and your obstacles
Work with a Sport Psychologist
Read, watch videos and practice strengthening your mindset
Write down positive attributes about your game, post them on your mirror and read them every day as a reminder
Environment - surround yourself with positive people. Attitude is infectious. Build a tribe of people who believe in you and who encourage you to accomplish your goals.
Growth Mindset
This growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts. Although people may differ in every which way in their initial talents and aptitudes, interests, or temperaments, everyone can change and grow through application and experience.
— Carol Dweck, Stanford Psychologist
How to develop a Growth Mindset
Trust the process - value process over the end results
Acknowledge and embrace your imperfections
View challenges as opportunities
Cultivate grit (hard work/determination)
Place effort before talent
Try different learning tactics
Replace the word “failing” with the word “learning”
Destroy Your Fear of Failure
It’s impossible to go through life without experiencing some kind of failure. Losing and failing to meet goals are inevitable parts of basketball. Great players are not afraid of failure, they know they occasionally fail on the road to getting better. Use your failure to motivate you to your successes.
People who have a fear of failure might be reluctant to try new things or take on challenging projects, they may procrastinate, may have excessive anxiety, and may not follow through on goals.
Don’t strive for perfection, a perfectionist is someone who has a willingness to try only those things that they know they will finish perfectly or successfully or gets upset when their actions are not flawless.
Remove Your Fear of Failure
Set S.M.A.R.T goals
Visualize
Think positive!
Implement new skills in low risk settings
Play like it doesn’t matter
Discover why you play and use that as your focus
Create an Alter-Ego
The “Black Mamba”, Kobe Bryant’s alter-ego got him through his lowest points of his career. In his documentary “Muse” he reveals his self given nickname was to get him through the struggles he was going through off the court which were distracting him on the court.
The Black Mamba’s job was to take care of business on the court. This ruthless mentality helped gain his confidence on the basketball court and to overcome some of his most difficult times in his career.
Visualize
Of Steph Curry’s 10 rules for success, visualization is number one on his list. Visualize the ball going in the net, hitting the game winning shot, and accomplishing your goals.
Find more visualization tips here.
Increasing In Game Confidence
Be ready – most athletes are under prepared; practice, study, and mentally prepare to play
Want the ball, be ready to catch the ball and know what you are going to do after you receive it
Take higher percentage shots
Choose less risky pass options and be sure to add enough force to get it to your teammate
Set in game goals (reasonable goals)
Focus on the role you play on your team, is it providing great defense? Rebounding?
Control your nerves
Create a game day routine or ritual. Pack your bag the night before, eat the same pre game snack, listen to the same songs during warmup, create your game day routine
Play like it doesn’t matter
Get out nervous energy by hustling on the court
Meditate or visualize before the game
Eliminate distractions - laziness and jealousy
Remove fear of failure
Don’t get caught in your last bad play - give yourself a physical cue to wipe it away, finger snap, a clap or a jump, sprint back on defense, etc.
Recall positive moments and the reasons why you love to play
Positive affirmations vs negative thoughts
Share your workout on social with hashtag #KeepPlaying
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How to Build Permanent Confidence on the Basketball Court
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NBC Basketball Camps train athletes from the inside out. If you want to be a great player, you have to have confidence that no one can take away.
Picture a moment when a coach commented on something you did well. You felt like you could rule the world. Then, maybe even in the same practice, your coach said something that sapped your confidence and you felt like getting angry or worse, giving up. This roller coaster of temporary confidence causes us to feel out of control. Permanent confidence is something no one can take away because compliments don't inflate us and criticism doesn't shake us.
We are calling permanent confidence a skill because it requires purposeful effort to develop. The difference between permanent confidence and temporary confidence is temporary confidence means confidence which can be given quickly and taken away quickly.
Here are three ways to help you build permanent confidence.
1. If possible, especially when developing a new skill, choose an encouraging environment. Not all environments are equal. The best place to grow is in an environment where you are given grace for mistakes, kind correction and courage to keep going. It's possible to survive in Antarctica with harsh wind and violent weather, but it's very tough and few make it. Similarly,confidence has a hard time becoming permanent in an environment of criticism, perfectionism and/or insult. One of the key pursuits of NBC Camps for 40 years has been to create an environment where maximum growth can happen. A climate where athletes feel "believed in." An environment of encouragement is especially crucial when confidence has not become permanent.
2. Practice, practice, practice! The truly confident person loves hard work and is willing to do the work necessary to become great. The difference between a confident person and a cocky person is that the confident person is able and open to looking at, talking about, and working on his or her weaknesses. When you have permanent confidence, you don't become crushed by mistakes. You can grow and learn and even be thankful for mistakes because they will show you ways you can improve.
3. Not all thoughts are equal. A person with permanent confidence doesn't allow certain thoughts to have any time in his or her head. Thoughts of bitterness, self-pity, condemnation or grandiosity are met at the door of the mind. If they are destructive thoughts, they are not allowed entrance. Truly confident people understand each of us has a choice to think something or throw it out.
7 Ways to End Games with Greater Confidence
Confidence, execution, fitness level and skills are key to the final moments of a game but above all you have to have confidence. You have to have the type of confidence that knows you are going to win, the type that wills the ball into the basket. You have to be able to execute what is necessary in the final moments. You need to be fit, don't let fatigue cost you the game. Finally, you need the skills in place to make the split second choices when it matters most--that means being a student of the game. Watch film, study, and know what the great play makers do when they are behind, when they are up, when they need to foul, when they need to score. Here are several practical ways to end the game well.
1. Be ready to catch the ball, be mentally focused and 100% dialed in. Slips happen near the end of the game through too much confidence or lack of confidence.
2. Make certain your passes are easy to catch and are thrown with strength and precision. Avoid dangerous passes. Give your teammates confidence in your passing decisions.
3. Monitor your level of nerves. If you are nervous, you will have the tendency to shoot hard, to pass too hard. When the tempo and pressure increases, remain calm. Discipline yourself to stay mentally alert.
4. While on defense, interrupt your opponent. Don't make anything easy . Give them no rest, hound every shot, block out every time. Mentally tire them out.
5. Take only a quality shot, never a risky or suspect shot. Make your bunnies (short shots near the basket).
6. Speak confidence. Focus on feeling like you are a great shooter, say mentally to yourself that you are on fire, you love to score, it's going in.
7. Go get the ball and secure it. Love the ball, want the ball, protect the ball. Your confidence and the confidence of the team will remain secure when you take care of the ball.
Confidence is a mindset skill that requires discipline to protect and maintain. Work on it every practice and protect yourself from mentally letting down your guard which comparison, assumption, or negative thinking. As you think, so you become.
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“In the last month I have been able to do a lot. The coach trusted me, gave me playing time and the opportunity to show everything that I am capable of. Pini Gershon managed to make some changes and winning important matches showed that we are moving in the right direction. Sufficient time on the site helped me gain confidence in myself. By the way, in the last three meetings I played for 30 minutes I have never had such confidence in me.
Some people think that everything is easy for me, but this is far from the truth. You have to work hard to win and show your maximum. I trained a lot to become a good player in a strong team. To do this, it is not enough to score points and collect rebounds. There are things that don't show up in the stats, the key move before the pass or the move off the ball that forces the defense to be distracted. I try to do as much as possible and I hope that this will bring results, the official website of the Euroleague conveys the words to Elyahu.
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Build a tribe of people who believe in you and who encourage you to accomplish your goals. 
Losing and failing to meet goals are inevitable parts of basketball. Great players are not afraid of failure, they know they occasionally fail on the road to getting better. Use your failure to motivate you to your successes. 
In his documentary “Muse” he reveals his self given nickname was to get him through the struggles he was going through off the court which were distracting him on the court. 
Pack your bag the night before, eat the same pre game snack, listen to the same songs during warmup, create your game day routine
When you have permanent confidence, you don't become crushed by mistakes. You can grow and learn and even be thankful for mistakes because they will show you ways you can improve.
Finally, you need the skills in place to make the split second choices when it matters most--that means being a student of the game. Watch film, study, and know what the great play makers do when they are behind, when they are up, when they need to foul, when they need to score. Here are several practical ways to end the game well.
Mentally tire them out.
NBC Camps is a member of US Sports Camps network of outstanding summer sports camps throughout the world. Players, coaches, parents and members of the media interested in learning more about NBC Camps are invited to visit www.nbccamps.com or phone 1-800-406-3926.
To do this, it is not enough to score points and collect rebounds. There are things that don't show up in the stats, the key move before the pass or the move off the ball that forces the defense to be distracted. I try to do as much as possible and I hope that this will bring results, the official website of the Euroleague conveys the words to Elyahu. 
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