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It's all very understandable, of course. The kid decides to come back to show the Big Guys that he can perform the way they want to see him perform...so he quite naturally begins to put a lot of pressure on himself to impress with every play, every minute on the court. The only problem with this kind of earnestness is that it tends to impair your performance when there is a play for you to make.
The best performances that elite basketball players are able to put together are those in which the player is "unconscious" or "out of his mind", quite literally. The speed of the game is so quick, your motions need to be purely reflexive in order to beat your opponents at the highest levels of competition. Thinking about what you are doing actually slows you down a few milliseconds, enough to make you miss a play. When it comes to shooting, it makes you hesitate, or sometimes overcompensate if you are thinking you need to shoot in a particular way.
(This may also explain the poor shooting night Buddy had, and also Hughes for that matter)
If Tyus wants to sabotage his season, he'll keep trying to think himself into perfect performances whenever he is on the court and run himself into a world of mental frustration. But if he wants to perform at his level best, he needs to blow all the thinking out of his head during games and just "let it happen."
Just react to what is happening around you. If they're swarming you, just pass the ball and wait for an opportunity to present itself. Focus on being a defensive terror and grabbing every loose ball (i.e., rebounds) and understand that losing yourself in the game, becoming a 'reaction machine', is the kind of approach that is going to free your natural ability to express itself in an optimal way.
The time for thinking about what you are doing is during practice. But when it's game time, you just gotta put yourself in that energetic reaction mode and it will all take care of itself. Let Coach do all your thinking for you and just respond to it. And when/if you do that, Tyus, you're really going to enjoy the hell out of this season...
The best performances that elite basketball players are able to put together are those in which the player is "unconscious" or "out of his mind", quite literally. The speed of the game is so quick, your motions need to be purely reflexive in order to beat your opponents at the highest levels of competition. Thinking about what you are doing actually slows you down a few milliseconds, enough to make you miss a play. When it comes to shooting, it makes you hesitate, or sometimes overcompensate if you are thinking you need to shoot in a particular way.
(This may also explain the poor shooting night Buddy had, and also Hughes for that matter)
If Tyus wants to sabotage his season, he'll keep trying to think himself into perfect performances whenever he is on the court and run himself into a world of mental frustration. But if he wants to perform at his level best, he needs to blow all the thinking out of his head during games and just "let it happen."
Just react to what is happening around you. If they're swarming you, just pass the ball and wait for an opportunity to present itself. Focus on being a defensive terror and grabbing every loose ball (i.e., rebounds) and understand that losing yourself in the game, becoming a 'reaction machine', is the kind of approach that is going to free your natural ability to express itself in an optimal way.
The time for thinking about what you are doing is during practice. But when it's game time, you just gotta put yourself in that energetic reaction mode and it will all take care of itself. Let Coach do all your thinking for you and just respond to it. And when/if you do that, Tyus, you're really going to enjoy the hell out of this season...