Going to start doing some more lives here and maybe on Tik Tok and answer questions for you all and give insights so you guys can be the ultimate hoppers. Stay tuned!

I've been seeing people posting about making multiple hundreds of shots each day but for me that would take hours. for you personally how long does it take you to make how many shots? do you have any tips on shooting alone or do you always have rebounders or a shooting machine?

This was on my mind so I wanted to get on here and talk to yall about how to build a winning mentality and championship attitude When I was playing in high school I was always pretty good so didn’t always have to have that championship mindset or that massive competitiveness because I would just let my talent take over. When I got to college that didn’t work at all and I was on the bench so fast. That’s just me though. If you are in high school or younger and you aren’t the best or you don’t perform like you want you HAVE to have a winning mentality. What is a winning mentality? It’s focusing on the details!! Winning is in the details and if you can wrap your head around that you will win BIG. When I say the details I mean getting to be on time the night before the game, being hydrated well before you play, watching that extra 5 minutes of film, going to the gym and making those 200 shots, giving that one little extra effort in the game to dive for the lose ball or set the hard screen, details details details.. focus on that the next time you are looking to get better results. Trust me on this. I will not tell you guys ANYTHING that I didnt do myself or see work at the HIGHEST level of college basketball so listen to me on this. I promise it will help you! Let’s go!

played a really tough game today. we only had 5 normal players and 4 fill ins in the morning 2 hrs away from home. the situation itself was tough but then the game and the people we were playing was even harder. I ended up dropping 31 and my efficiency was crazy. I started getting super gassed in the 4th. we had been up by about 8 but then they came back and my heart probably wasn't conditioned enough. it was a huge win for me because in the first we were down by more than ten and I got us up but in the end we lost. The mental side was huge. we got 5 tech warnings and more and I actually had to tell my coaches to stop arguing. while I agree the reffing wasn't the best, they're part of the game and we can't control it. my takeaways from today was that I needed more conditioning and skill work while tired. I'll take the win and the fact that we were always the underdogs and almost won anyway but I now know the things I need to work on just also as a team out communication and rotation needs to be up.

Here's something i wrote for myself last night (it's night for me rn) that I would like to share with others. I was watching a couple of videos and had that dopamine rush that I just felt like I needed to write. I actually can't believe I wrote it. Sorry for all the typos i hope it is understandable. https://youtu.be/O4oP3QAb0EQ?si=fVie5HmAR8JZov8l Donte get complacent - what can i already do? What did i work on that now i’m good at? Those things i still have to keep practising or its no longer something i can do. e.g free throws - i got good at them because i practised every week. I scored one in a high pressure situation so I thought i was done- that I was good. Then, my performance dropped. I wasn’t shooting them that well and i went from one of the reliable free throw shooters on the team to one of the worst on the team. Another example - my left hand layups. I spent so long working on finishing with my left hand because i always went right that now I’m mor comfortable going left and I got down on myself for not doing better on the right. Now I realise that I can’t be mad atmyself for it if ther is a reason and in both of these cases it wss because i stopped putting the work in. i may be able to put in the work to do my weakness put i also need to uphold my strengths. https://youtu.be/K1QDYuHGa_I?si=mGueanfme3GwM3C5 - you gotta balance competence and confidence. You can’t have belief too far ahead of competency because thats just fantasy but you also cant have your competency dragged down by self doubt. He also says “there’s also a built belief” that built belief for me was yesterday. I may have missed a couple of long range shots which weren’t my normal shots but I took them and and did with confidence and it felt good. The balance of that is that the belief that I’d get all my layups in probably shouldn’t have been there because it hurt me a little. It hurt me to know that I missed that many but again, I’m not allowed to feel bad about that because I didnbt practise it. The other thing was tho that I knew my free throws were bad. So I practised the day before game day. I did and it felt good. And what happened? I shot about 50%. while that is still bad the ones that I made were the ones that I had a clear mind in. the ones that I even had an ounce of self doubt in my mind or said “that didnt feel good” in my mind were never going to go in in the first place.