What’s up, basketball buddies? Welcome to episode one of the Pro Ball Buddy podcast. I’m your host, Teige Morrell, AKA your Pro Ball Buddy. And I’m here today with my hubby, coach David Morrell. So David will probably be on the show quite often. so why don’t you go ahead and introduce yourself to the people and tell us about your own basketball journey. Yeah.

My name is David. I’m a basketball coach. I coach the men’s team for Juneau Wolves, the NBL1 team. And I just love all things about basketball. So all these different discussions, they’re exciting. It’s just an opportunity to kind of dig in and discuss all sorts of different areas that players can think about. So yeah, I’m excited to be here.

we’ll jump in right away. And this topic today is all about the process of becoming great, which is the series that we’re currently on in ProBallBuddy.com, which is where you can find all the basketball blogs that I have written just for you. And this series, in particular, the first blog is setting goals for basketball, and the second blog is accountability in basketball. And…

It’s based off of a quote that is attributed to Blake Griffin. Do you know who Blake Griffin is, David? I do know who Blake Griffin is. I think of Blake Griffin and the Lob City Clippers team as potentially the most exciting team to watch in the history of basketball, Deandre Jordan, Blake Griffin, dunking on people. Chris Paul running the show, JJ Reddick running off screens. Unlucky with injuries, but man, they were exciting to watch.

Okay, awesome. So Blake Griffin is a great basketball player and very well known. So he was attributed with this quote, you have to fall in love with the process of becoming great. Now, what are your initial thoughts when you first hear that quote?

Yeah, I mean, I think that’s digging into the heart of a development mindset of not being all about jumping or skipping the line and getting to the to the end result on the journey, but enjoying the process along the way, every step along the way in the journey. And really, I just think about basketball as just this incredible game more than any other game that has these two different worlds in it. There’s the team side of it.

And more than any other game, there’s this individual development side of basketball that is this like the skill side of it is an art form in basketball. The, the ball skills, the ability to put the ball in the hoop, all the different things, and if you as a player only like game days and showing up and just like having people watch you and cheer you on, um, you’re missing that whole other second world. And so I think in basketball, maybe more than anything else.

you have to fall in love with that process of working on your game on an individual level, working in the weight room, all of those things. And it can be a really, really beautiful thing and very exciting. I definitely agree with that for sure. So for me, falling in love with the process and kind of what you’re saying, the things outside of games goes back to setting goals for basketball.

And like I said, that’s the first blog post that I have in this series of the process of becoming great. what was your biggest basketball dream when you were younger? I think it depended on what time you would ask me that, right? There’d be things like, you know, make the, the travel team that, you know, you have to try out for that’s a collection of players from all over. And then there’s.

you know, and make varsity team as a freshman and that tryout. And then you kind of accomplish that and get into it. And now the dream turned to be in a division one athlete and getting a scholarship to build a play. Different awards and things like that, that on an individual level, I guess, motivated me throughout the way. But then it was always.

winning whatever season I was in that year that was always by far the ultimate goal is how do I help my team win I wanted a state championship so badly it was you know that fire in and then you know just winning at the highest level whatever season you’re in for whatever team you’re in whatever that championship looks like is always the ultimate goal.

but I did have big dreams. I wanted to play division one basketball. I wanted to have a scholarship and…

I think, I mean, I was a little bit crazy. I tried to, over my playing years, I sort of developed this mamba mentality as much as I could and just an obsession. So I think in my brain, just thinking of that dream of playing Division I college basketball, I created as just a motivating factor, this player in my mind and my imagination that-

that lived a few cities over, didn’t actually exist, but that I’m a 6’4 guard, I created in my mind a 6’6 guard, a couple inches taller than me, he was faster than me, he shot better than me, and all the college coaches loved him, and he was the hardest worker they had ever seen. This is an imaginary player. An imaginary player I made up in my mind, and I think on a day-to-day process, I was competing with him. I was like, there’s a 6’6.

player at my position that’s better than me, more athletic than me that I have to go beat because he’s gonna get my scholarship. And so I wake up every day trying to outwork this imaginary ghost in my head. And it did on those days where you just are sore and don’t wanna wake up. And it’s like, well, this guy’s getting up out of bed and we’re getting better. The coaches are gonna give the scholarship to him instead. It was always a…

motivating factor on those days where I didn’t want to do it. Yeah, wow. Well, that’s huge and we’ll definitely get into accountability later, but I think that goes a lot into accountability, holding yourself accountable, knowing that someone, one city down is right on your tail or actually way above you and putting in more work than you. So.

So don’t let them work harder than you, right? Like make it impossible. Yeah, and it’s up to you. So what was your biggest achievement in high school? If you didn’t go to college, like you were playing in high school, obviously obsessed. Did that pay off? Like what was your biggest achievement? I think when you get hindsight to it, the individual stats and the individual words don’t matter at all.

and the pride that I have in anything that I did as a player was just knowing, having like full self satisfaction, knowing that I did everything in my power to work my tail off and be the best player that I could be. I think that’s the pride that I have in my playing journey. I mean, I think in the end, the big dream of playing Division I basketball,

failed, like my body just gave out. It was not healthy enough to continue into college scholarships, just bad knees. But that work ethic and just being obsessed with basketball and stuff, it got me to a place where I was prepared to be a coach and prepared to love basketball and compete in basketball in a different way. And I didn’t

ever have a trainer and I didn’t have a fancy coach. Like the kids these days, they have a coach that’s dragging them to the gym to work out with them every step of the way. Um, I worked myself out. So, and I think that I was always better as a coach to myself than I was as a player. Um, I just tried to find a way with willpower to make myself a player, but I think. Looking back, I was always more suited to be a coach than a player. Okay. Well.

You are a great coach. I know that. But you talk about this obsession. What did it look like for you in terms of setting goals? Did you have goals that were guiding you in terms of like the process oriented goals? So in my blog post, actually we talk about process oriented goals versus results oriented goals. And results oriented goals.

are the big dreams that we have and then the destination markers of getting to those dreams where the process goals are really the nitty gritty day-to-day things that you do every day, little reps, all of that, that add up to reach the destination markers, which then add up to reaching your big goal. So did you look at your journey in that way?

At all, did you have this process and plan that you maybe wrote down or what was it like for you? Yeah, I think it was always a tuning process for me as I got older into my journey. And then I think probably have a little bit of a better perspective now of what goal setting looks like to be as productive as possible. But I think at one stage, maybe when I was 14 or 15, I’d have a notebook that probably had 100 goals.

in it, like pages of goals, little goals, big goals, long-term goals, short-term goals, process-oriented goals, like what I’m doing on a daily basis. But I remember specifically the number that I hit was 100. I just kept writing goals until I got to 100. Oh, wow. And then I was done. And that’s too many. Yeah. And it wasn’t broken down into like short-term, long-term. It was all just this mess of 100.

different goals, which is hard for the brain to stay focused on what’s important if you do it that way. But I got better over time of organizing my goals and organizing what I wanted to do over time into the long-term goals, the shorter term, the process of how many shots am I getting up every day, organizing workouts and saying how many of those am I hitting every week.

okay, were you aware of the importance of the process? And if so, where did that knowledge come from?

I think it was always easy for me. I just loved the workout process. I loved giving up and saying, God, help me be better tonight than I am right now. Just like taking one step forward. And then just looking at yourself in the mirror at the end of the day and saying, did I do whatever I could to get better today? And am I better now than I was 24 hours ago?

Um, I just loved that process. I know it’s, it’s just step by step. I think that’s just an inherent wisdom that I sort of always understood as a player that it’s never going to be jumping to the end and the big goals just happening. It’s hours and hours of work in the dark to have something good happen when the lights are on. Um, and I think, you know, that was something that was always easy for me. I would probably easy because I loved.

the workouts and I love that kind of competitiveness against myself or against, you know, things in my mind to try and get better. Right. Do you think there was anything you were missing? Like, was there any knowledge that you didn’t have that maybe could have helped you along with this process? Well, like I said, I was kind of my, my own trainer. So there’s a lot of basketball knowledge.

I was missing and could help myself with a whole lot more right now. I mean, we’re talking learning moves just by watching YouTube videos or a game film of Steve Francis and Alan Iverson or whatever, and just watching them do a move 20 times and then going out on court and trying to copy them instead of really knowing what I was doing. In terms of the goal setting, I think it really, the biggest thing would just be being more specific.

instead of spread out. So I think my intent was right in workouts. I was able to push workout partners to work with me at the level that I needed them to. So some of those leadership skills, I think, started emerging to get my workout partners on board. Actually, I had, at one stage, I had a Monday workout partner, a Tuesday workout partner, a Wednesday workout partner, and my Monday workout partner would work out with me again on Thursday.

And then I would have my Tuesday workout partner work with me on Friday and then a different guy on Sunday. So I would like spread out. I would just have different teammates for different days to work out with me all through the week.

Okay, so take us into that process a little bit more in detail because yes, I know it pretty well. But yeah, I want to let everyone else in on really just how obsessive you were. Didn’t they give you the key to the gym eventually? The stadium.

Not the high school, it’s always important. In America, it’s really important to make friends with the custodian staff, the janitors. Yes, 100%. I agree with that. When I’m there before anyone else is there, if I’m there and I’m the last one at the school and the only people left around are the custodian staff or the janitors, they aren’t kicking you out.

you’re friends with them and you’re nice to them. And they know you. They know you. They know you’re responsible. Yeah, you’re not getting in trouble and breaking things. Yeah, because they have to do their jobs at the end of the day. They don’t want to get in trouble either. So that was always important because you’re showing up super early in the morning or staying late at night after all of the teachers have gone home for the day. Well, the janitor can just kick you out if they want to.

or they can be nice to you because you’ve gotten another, you’ve been nice. So yeah, I mean, I think that was always the case. I had a key to the school, like the, I’ll get myself in trouble, but the school down the road in elementary school. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah. Not my high school gym, and I would just go in there in the middle of the night when nobody’s supposed to be there and get extra shots up or get a workout in.

that was beneficial. But if I had gotten caught, which I did a couple of times, you would be in trouble on that one because you’re essentially breaking into that school to get extra workouts in. Did someone give you the key? We won’t give it away, if you would want, it’s better, or you didn’t steal it, right? Somebody who was not supposed to copied the key and gave it to me. Oh my gosh, okay. So it was a copy of a key that I was definitely not supposed to have. And did you?

initiate this or did they just offer it to you like no they just knew they just knew that i always wanted to be in the gym and working out so they knew they were helping me out with this i actually think that is so great truly as long as you were responsible you took care of things i don’t know we’re not we’re not trying to like promote breaking the law but um

obsessive you were. It was like a no excuses mentality, right? The school was shut, it’s a public holiday, whatever. All right, find a way, no excuses, I’ll sneak into this other school and get my work out in anyways. Yeah, yeah. So if you’re this obsessed, did you ever risk burnout? I suppose so.

Yeah. I mean, people, people always talk about, um, you gotta have balance. You gotta, you know, balance out your life. And I think that’s important. I think that’s a personality thing. I never had any motivation to have balance. I just wanted to do basketball. Um, but yeah, I mean, if you’re, if you’re feeling that pull of. Just not enjoying it or not being intensely motivated to get.

the workouts that you’ve set out for yourself. Well, maybe it is a matter of balance and you need it. I think if you don’t need it or you don’t feel yourself needing that, why would you force yourself to dial back the workouts and dial back your schedule and your goals in order to find balance? So I think that’s just monitoring yourself, knowing yourself, understanding if you need to do less and you need to find balance, that’s okay.

If you wanna do more and keep going, that’s also okay. It’s just your own personal journey. Is there anything you’d recommend for someone who has a big goal in basketball, but might not feel like they can relate to your crazy motivation right now? Is it just innate? Like, is it just something you’re born with and you suddenly fall in love with basketball, or can they actually develop?

this desire and motivation to be at the courts every day? Yeah, I think just start it, like fake it a little bit. And I do think there is something that’s a bit addictive and just so satisfying with getting into this process of just taking pride in outworking the people that are around you and seeing that growth from day to day that

the person in your competition or even in your team isn’t experiencing that same level of growth because you’re just outworking them. I think there is such a satisfaction in that you sort of eventually start to really love that process that showing up and every two weeks, just being a little bit further along than the people around you in a different way. And maybe.

Yeah, it takes you being a little bit diabolical, a little bit crazy and a little bit of a lot of things. But if you really want to be a great athlete or even just have a great work ethic, you need a little bit of crazy sprinkled in. Yeah, I suppose I definitely agree with that. I do think there is a need for a little bit of balance. But like you said, I think it depends on who you are, for sure.

And the whole thing for me is truly, yeah, seeing growth.

is a huge part of having fun. And I know for me, it really started to take root when I was going into senior year of college and I met Walter Hopkins and he became my trainer and.

just really helped me fall in love with the process in terms of little things that I could improve on throughout my basketball journey.

even regardless of whether my team won or lost, in a game we would reflect and look back and see if there were any wins in terms of the little things that we were trying to develop in my game. Yeah, he helped me fall back in love with basketball and see that growth and that development even as a 22-year-old. Yeah, so

Would you say that’s a common thing as a coach? Is that a common thing that you see in players, like enjoying the process because they see their growth? Yeah, absolutely. Like the little victories are really enjoyable as a player, right? Those little victories of seeing a move that you’ve been working on finally.

you know, you being comfortable enough to try it in a game, a huge, I see it in players that I train a lot, you know how, you know, when you’re, you don’t see somebody for a while and you.

or working out and you’re losing lots of weight or something, right. And then you show up and it’s been eight months since you’ve seen someone. And they had that moment of, Oh, wow. Like you’ve been working out like it’s crazy. And you didn’t notice it because it was like little gradual progress. So when you see yourself making small changes on a, on a journey, it’s not quite as eyeopening as that person that hasn’t seen you in a while. I think in the basketball journey.

sometimes the most exciting, just big moments of, heck yes, this is awesome, are when you haven’t seen somebody, so like from the start of off season to day one of training camp, and you show up, and you’ve been putting in, you know, crazy amounts of work in the lab, in the weight room, on court, just adding to your game, and you show up and some players that you haven’t seen in five months are like, whoa.

This guy’s for real, he has taken a huge jump forward. That can be the most exciting moment in the calendar for a player sometimes, because it is that satisfaction. It is that reward of, yeah, like I didn’t notice it every step of the way, because it’s tiny little growth, little bits at a time. But yes, if I look back and really reflect that, see that growth. Or it’s just a friend.

that your hard work is really paying off. Yeah, and it does. The work always works. Yeah, the work always works. So moving on to accountability, and really the two subjects actually go hand in hand, but in terms of our basketball journey and falling in love with the process.

It all, all of this that we’re talking about, goal setting, accomplishing those goals, day in and day out, the work works, but it all depends on you. As a player, we cannot kid ourselves

and make excuses and then expect to be as great as someone who isn’t making those excuses.

We have to just know that where there’s a will, there’s a way. And even if it’s not perfect, that shouldn’t be an excuse to not improve your game. There’s so many ways to improve your game, even if it’s in your house.

how can you tell the difference between a player who takes accountability in their basketball journey and one who doesn’t? It’s consistency, right? Like is…

If we sit down and we lay out a schedule of these are the days that we’re trying to work out and kind of consistently you don’t hit those days, well, there’s something intrinsically or that’s sort of broken in your intrinsic motivation to hold yourself accountable and make sure you show up to those days that you have decided you want to be there to reach your goals.

I think we talk a lot about in the sports world about potential and, you know, in basketball height, athleticism, having long arms, you know, being, being bouncy and being able to dunk on people or just having some raw athleticism. All of those things are like, man, that guy has potential. But over years of training kids, yes, all of that stuff is obviously very crucial.

to take that athletic potential, the potential that’s kind of stored up in your body and actually realize it and become a great player, the unlocking key is do you hold yourself accountable? Do you consistently show up and work? Because…

I can tell you if you do not, then all of it will stay potential and it will not go from potential to talent and actually show up on the court. And I’ve seen that way too many times as well as kids that could have been insanely good basketball players that just didn’t show up and work and guys pass them because they are showing up and working. Yeah. And there might be some obstacles that come in our path.

but accountability can really help turn those obstacles into opportunities. So instead of blaming an excuse for why you didn’t get your workout in today, you’re finding a way

I think of players that I’ve worked with, some of the best ones, and I really, I think a lot of the best ones actually that I’ve worked with in my time as a coach have been ones that have suffered.

setbacks or like not gotten awards or not made teams, not gotten selected or recognized for things early on and had the right response, had the no excuses mentality. All right, I’m just going to have to work harder then and find their way. So some of the players that don’t make any of the state stuff in 14, 16, 18s

just keep getting better, get better, get better until it’s undeniable and, um, absolutely can’t refuse me now type mentality in twenties and then go play high level college basketball or go make the MBL or, um, whatever the case may be. And then there’s some in America as well. Just didn’t make teams early. Didn’t, um, get stats early. Weren’t on college radars early.

kept working, kept working, kept working, had this huge senior year, get recruited by all of the big schools now and have a great college career. So early success when you are a 12, 13 year old does not indicate like ESPN and all these ranking services are it’s crazy nowadays. They have 12 year olds ranked. Like who cares?

Just get better, just keep working, showing up on a daily basis. I don’t care if you’re a top 100 player as a 12 year old, it means nothing. Just fall in love with the process, fall in love with the game and keep getting better because if you’re a finished product as a 12 year old, you’re not gonna be a very good 16, 17, 18 year old.

what other…

like sort of excuses do you hear from kids most often these days? I don’t know that it’s about specific excuses. It’s just the like not arranging your schedule and your plans around your goals in basketball. And if basketball is the thing that you’re really trying to pursue being great at and it’s your number one thing that

Not necessarily it’s your number one thing in life. Like we got family, faith, you know, important people in your life that should come first, but if it’s the biggest thing that you are pursuing in life that you’re trying to get better at, well, then you should be arranging your schedule in a way that, that works around basketball instead of, Oh, sorry, this came up. Oh, sorry, this came about and not having.

everything be about no I’ve got to work out at that point I’m gonna push that thing back for a couple hours or I’ll show up late to that thing so that I can take care of basketball practice first or basketball training first. I think people are way too quick to just be like ah this came up. Yeah and that’s kind of what I was saying with accountability we can’t kid ourselves if you say you want to play

NBA, WNBA, I mean that’s a whole nother level. And even NBL1 or NBL, WNBL. Do you say you want it, but do we really want it? That’s the question like you’re saying. Are you prioritizing your schedule around that desire? And I guess that…

you’re saying that can say a lot about whether someone actually wants it or if they’re just kidding themselves. Yeah, I have a good test in terms of just a way that I think about it. So you know how when you’re trying to decide a movie or just make a simple decision even in life and you have these two things you don’t really know what you want to do that you flip a coin and psychologists that talk about

in the middle of that coin flip, your brain oftentimes will make a quick decision and really what you want of the two choices becomes known. And so I think it’s really telling those moments where, you know, a workout is canceled or practices canceled and the coach messaged you the night before saying, hey, sorry, the gym’s not available. We’re we can’t work out in the morning. And

If your instinct in that moment is, ah, good, I get to sleep in. Well, yeah, probably the intrinsic motivation and like the passion and desire is probably not there. Um, if your first instinct is, ah, dang it, nah, all right. How do I figure out a different way to get better? Well, then you’re on a journey towards something where you’re just about the process and keep getting better. Keep getting better. If you.

If your mind immediately goes from setback to how do I get better? Then you’re wired in the way of really trying to improve yourself. Yeah. I mean, do we make someone out there who feels that way, feel guilty about not being happy to…

being happy to get asleep and instead of working out like is there times where that happens and it’s okay? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean that’s again the balance and knowing yourself. But over time it adds up so if it’s consistently your response if it’s a case of yeah I’m really sore right now so

one day off, this will actually be good for me. Right. Cool. All right, yeah, that makes sense. That’s a logical, healthy response. And I’m not, I think you can take anything that I’m saying and blow it up to, you know, David says you should wake up at four in the morning, every morning and start working out. Otherwise you don’t care about basketball. That is not what we’re saying at all. It’s just, this was my personal response when I back.

way back in the day when I was a player to, I care about this, I’m gonna pour my whole heart into it. That was my personal response to that goal setting process. I think everybody, yeah, everybody will have a completely different response to that. But it’s also good to know, it’s not like you wouldn’t be the only one out there. As much as we, even I think you were very much crazy obsessive.

I could bet there are multiple kids out there today even doing what you’re doing. that’s the reality we have to, you know, just again, not kid ourselves on. Like, are you going to be able to compete against someone who’s doing something like that? Are you going to be satisfied when they show up in a tryout and take your place? Right?

I think. The biggest thing with accountability though is to train yourself. I think it’s the self-discipline and that sport isn’t just about sport. It’s also about just training your character and your willpower to be successful in life.

If I go into a contract with myself, which I did, and I said, I’m going to train these six days a week, I’m going to get a thousand shots up this day, this day, this day, I’m going to get my hour of ball handling workout this day, this day, this day, I’m going to get 700 shots up this day, this day, this day. Like I put my process goals in place and I sit there and I look at my schedule and I say, yes, I can do this. Let’s do it. And then I cop out and I keep on like.

falling short and saying, ah, not today, I’ll make an excuse. Well then I’m training myself to not be successful in life. Yeah. Right? And so if I agree to this contract of the process of what I want to do to pursue my goals, then meet the contract, meet the, and I don’t mean like a written contract, just a decision that I made to pursue my goals. I gotta meet that standard that I set for myself. If it’s too much.

It’s too much and that’s a personal decision. Just dial it back a little bit. Right. But if I said it as I’m only going to train four days a week instead of six, and it’s going to be half the time of what I did. Cool. That’s completely healthy. That’s completely normal. But whatever I just signed up for have the discipline to show up and work and do it and not take shortcuts and cop outs. Yeah. The character building is huge. And yeah, like you said, it depends on.

person. And again, not everyone has the same resources, but we do all have the same time and we can prioritize our schedules around what we really want. But I would say like

For people who do really want it and just feel like they’re not doing enough, like maybe they can’t compete with someone who’s up at 4 o’clock in the morning with a trainer, I think if you, again, going back to the character building, like if you have the drive to just do something so that you’re not having a zero day, so that you’re not making the excuse of,

beat that person who’s up at four in the morning with a trainer, then it will all add up. And like you’re saying, it will add up in terms of character building too. Like you are building towards something. And as long as you have that drive for basketball and to put in the hard work towards basketball, you might not end up with the dream that you had initially. But…

it definitely will pay off towards whatever career or whatever you end up doing in life. Right? Would you agree? I mean, yeah, in any career, I think, especially if that career is basketball, it’s really easy for me to say and like look at how it directly applied to my career in basketball. But yeah, I think as an accountant, as anything, those skills of showing up and working and…

doing it consistently are very important things to develop. Yeah, I think it’s just my passion too, to like make kids aware of the process, what it might take and give these destination markers or even just some inspiration, because I guess I wasn’t fully aware.

myself or really I didn’t know what I wanted early enough I don’t think.

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So for me, in my basketball journey, I wasn’t as driven as what you were, definitely not even close. But even like entering into college, I got a full ride scholarship to the University of Nevada. And to be completely honest, basketball was not my number one priority in selecting a school. And I…

As much as I look back and say, oh, if it had been, or if I had the drive that I have today, how much better would I be? Or what would my basketball journey look like? Where would I be right now? I also look back and wonder, would I potentially have even quit and completely burned out because…

for me at that stage in my life, basketball wasn’t the priority. So if I had pushed it, maybe it’s possible that I wouldn’t even be here in Australia as a professional basketball today, you know?

So I do think it does depend on the person. It depends on what you want. And that’s, I guess, our whole purpose in this conversation is just giving people knowledge, giving you inspiration. But yeah, also the ability to make decisions and decide what is best for you.

so that you’re not just left aimless, Yeah, so to put that into context, I would say, so all the way up through high school and 18, Teige was sort of the player that…

Again, highly recruited and was very good. Um, but she would go to team practice, work hard and then be done. And that was it. Right. So she consistently came to team practice, but there was absolutely no extra workout time. Um, and maybe absolutely no workout time is maybe a little bit strong, but there was, there was pretty minimal time spent getting extra shots up or getting extra skill work. It was kind of team training.

Um, and then, you know, first few years of college, again, a hard worker, but it wasn’t just an obsession to get extra work in. Um, and then around 22, Teige probably a little bit from just just being hungry and the bug kind of biting her. Yeah.

And the training with Walter as well. Yep. Yep. So all of these things kind of intersecting at the same time and Teige starting to really work outside of team practice and really work on her game. And took off that year. So was first team all Mountain West conference ended up now having a sustained very good.

professional career overseas that probably none of that happens if she didn’t get the workout bug and start falling in love with the process of really putting in that extra work. But I think it is really telling that, you know, if it had been forced on her before she was 22 and all these roads kind of just intersected to make it the time, then yeah, I think the outcome is very different. And so I think.

That’s a really important thing is you can’t force your kid to have these intense dreams and goals with basketball and you can’t force a kid to have the passion to put in all of their time on basketball. It has to be intrinsic motivation, not extrinsic. Yeah. And you can’t force yourself either. Like we keep saying, like, be real with yourself, know what you want and…

If what you want is to sustain yourself and have a great long professional journey, career, sorry, in the highest level, then that’s great. Just…

know what it takes and be willing to put in the work to get yourself there.

So I hope you are inspired and if you would like to read more about this topic, definitely head over to ProBallBuddy .com. Setting Goals for Basketball and Accountability in Basketball are the two blog posts out in this series right now.

thanks so much for joining us, you guys. Stay tuned for more episodes coming your way, hopefully helping you fall in love with the process But until then, keep ballin’ out and we’ll see you next time.