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Juan Nunez (Real Madrid, 2004) throwing bowling passes in every direction possible might be one of my favourite things in basketball right now.

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Alondes Williams, Pippen Jr. and LaRavia might get all the highlights (and rightfully so), but whichever team ends up signing Isaiah Miller is getting a steal. #NBA2KSummerLeague

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Great first half from Oso Ighodaro vs Kings. Sharp passing with offense mainly running through him. Also nice finishing around the rim attacking Timme giving him space.

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On the way to Vegas for the first time at the #NBA2KSummerLeague.

Will be thrilled to connect and talk hoops with anyone thats also attending, feel free to drop a message if you are also there!

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@nicolasmsarries Una pena los minutos finales, parecía que la ventaja de cinco puntos podía ser suficiente pero esto es así.

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Penda with the clutch buzzer-beater for the win 🫡

France take out Spain at the U20 Euros and advance to the semi-finals.

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Did you have time to catch all the U18 Americup games this past week? 🏀

If not, I’ve got you covered in the latest episode of Prospect Pulse.

Get your notepad ready and learn about some players that will soon play in the NCAA or internationally.

https://t.co/sqAZs3mmny

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Traore with the reject and crafty finish.

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Dabone. Just wow.

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From now on you will also be able to find each episode on YT.

PS: If you are in town and want recommendations for ramen/pizza/food or good coffee, or if you want to connect in person, feel free to DM me!
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Hugo Gonzalez, Egor Demin, Noa Essengue, Jakucionis, Sarr, Traore, Soliman, Grujicic, Allard, Dörries, Hoiundo, Garavaglia...we are in for a treat next week at the #ANGT Finals.

You also cant wait and want to get ready?

https://t.co/FH8EFiunqQ

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We are trying a new format of content, audio reports in under 20 minutes.

The first episode is fresh out of the oven and we talk about a young 2006 born spaniard who is taking over the LEB Gold.

You can listen here:

https://t.co/wh8znQXtyS

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Another example, this time with Mitchell.

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Having problems getting the ball to your go to guard? Find the high post to release pressure (and teach your bigs to pass like Hartenstein here).

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Cam Spencer giving me (a more physical) Steve Vasturia vibes. What a player🥲

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Perfect example for young players of why you should never give up on a play.

Great hustle from Barcelona's Raul Villar.

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Can we all please appreciate this defensive possession by Jarred Vanderbilt.

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The Top Unranked Prospect From Each Division In The UFC

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Late in the 2016 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Villanova blew a 10-point lead.

With 4.7 seconds left, UNC hit a 3-pointer to tie the game.

Villanova's head coach, Jay Wright, called a timeout, and as his players walked to the huddle, they were all saying the same word:

“Attitude.”

“It's the most important aspect of our program,” Coach Wright explains in his book titled, Attitude. “We wear 'Attitude' wristbands. And when we break a huddle, we say '1, 2, 3, Attitude.'”

The test of Attitude, Wright taught his players, is:

“Where is your mindset after something bad happens to you?”

Where is your mindset after you blow a 10-point lead? Where is your mindset after your opponent hits a 3 to tie the game with 4.7 seconds left?

“When I looked into the eyes of our players,” Wright writes, “I saw no anger or regret. No one bemoaned [the UNC player's] 'lucky shot,' or that any of our guys had failed to stop him from grabbing the pass that led to that shot, or anything else.”

Instead, “they were all saying, 'Attitude. Attitude. This is what we do. Attitude. This is what we do.'”

With this mindset, the players returned to the court.

Villanova's Kris Jenkins inbounded the ball to Ryan "Arch" Arcidiacono. Arch dribbled up the left side of the court, crossed half court, cut right towards the 3-point arc, where he underhanded a pass to Jenkins, who caught the ball with 1.3 seconds left, and, in perfect rhythm, jumped then released the ball with 0.6 seconds, and hit a buzzer-beater to win the 2016 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.

Takeaway 1:

A primary indicator of physical fitness is recovery time. If you are doing all-out sprint intervals, for instance—people who are physically fit recover from one interval to the next faster than those who are not physically fit.

“So then, what is mental fitness?” the mental performance coach Greg Harden likes to ask. “Mental fitness is about recovery time,” Harden says.

It's about, as Coach Wright said, where your mindset is after something bad happens to you.

After something bad happens, people who are mentally fit recover faster than those who are not.

Takeaway 2:

Just after Kris Jenkins hit the buzzer-beater, Coach Wright famously barely reacted.

Before his guys went back on the court, he explained, “I processed all the potential scenarios.” Most likely, the game was going to go to overtime where UNC would ride their wave of momentum and win the game.

“No matter the outcome,” Wright continued, “because of the way our players responded after UNC tied the game ["Attitude. Attitude. This is what we do."]—I felt like they had the greatest lesson in life. I felt like that was an accomplishment that would follow them through their lives.”

Ryan Holiday once told me, “You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.”

Wright got to that place. He had done the work to instill in his players a mindset, he said, “that they would carry with them for the remainder of their days on earth.”

“In that sense, I knew we had already won.” Everything else was extra.

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“The fact is, none of us control what happens to us in life—but we do control our responses to those circumstances...no matter how tough it gets or how much of a challenge you face in the final 4.7 seconds of a game.” — Jay Wright

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Another perfectly executed ATO by the Celtics.

Once again Jalen Brown as the decoy, driving after the 21 screen and the flare out of the horns alignment.

And of course healthy Porzingis is a cheat code.