This guy is too wise. I wish coaches were like this man.

Hoopers really don't know how important mindset is..

Brooo you have no idea how much I needed this. I keep hearing coaches talk about giving 110%, and I just ended up trying hard way too much. What I mean by that is I was putting in effort for the goal of trying hard, not playing basketball. I lost the joy of the game, which led to me playing trash and it suckeddd. Imma just clear my mind and let it flow from now on

This made me recall the spin move Jeremy Lin did at his 38 points night against Lakers. In his interview, he said he had never practiced that spin move, it just happened. I think it proofs what you said in some extent.

I know that feeling of looking over at coach when I don’t want to be pulled out. I have the same mental block Daniel did, trying too hard. I get really down on myself and even though I realize this mistake, I can’t break it. But when I’m playing pickup or just shooting with friends I am ten times more efficient and I actually have fun. Thank you for putting this into words and helping us get past this

Ik exactly how "Daniel" feels bc I never get into games unless we're down big and I hate it. Thanks coach I need this

Let's be gratefull that we got this in our recommendations

THANK YOU!!! this CHANGED my life. I used to train 2 hours a day and be scared to go between my legs as a fourth grader I’m still that way a few years later. Now I have this. I AM FINALLY GOING TO TRY OUT FOR AAU! Let my training take control I just need to play the way I do in non games not thinking about how good I’m playing you changed my life. Thank you

I used to be so afraid when ever i stepped on the court, started speaking my native language 2 months quietly while on the court and i became so much more confident because i was comfortable.

I do this on 2K all the time but cant do it irl..

I have this type of mentality sometimes and everytime i just let go, good things happen like being spontaneous on your moves. Somehow its like being unconscious. I didnt realize that I was in the zone until someone tapped me in my shoulder and said, "u gotta hit those fts to have 50". Its really just a game within the game.

i ended up having a similar mental block occur over my high school career. most of my coaches and some teammates often told me i was “the best on the team until i put on a jersey” and it was true. wish i saw this sooner and realized my full potential. glad you’re helping others from making the same mistake or lack of realization

Your laws are making more sense to me the more I think about them the game is starting to make more sense to me now thanks for the lessons EGT

The way this man smiles everytime and says everything so slowly makes you wanna watch it more and makes you feel alot more comfortable

Thank you so much for this coach. This is exactly what I needed.

Thank you for the message!! Helped me to be motivated and inspired to start playing again!!

Story at the start is just my life I can’t lie

He said exactly what I was going through....before I joined a team I was really good at basketball and I always did moves I didn't even know I could but after joining a team I got worst and I lost my motivation for basketball completely which made me suck at basketball...

Great job teaching this stuff as well. So many coaches are clueless about what it takes to genuinely perform at a high level consitently, and instead resort to cliches, anger or overly theorizing. Nothing worse than a grown man conjuring up a fantasy of how he believes a game will manifest, becoming so attached to it and refusing to adapt to what is. Mindfulness and mastering oneself is the true evolution of sport and you're teaching it to the youth. respect.

This is the best take on the matter I have seen in a long time.

I have this same issue, I just need to play the game... Thanks so much!!!❤️ I hope this really comes into action!

Wow!! This was deep, but he's actually speaking facts!! You have to be able to play effortlessly and let the game come to you, play off instincts and not think too much or try too hard

I had this thought but never knew how to form it in phrases

Hey coach, I don't play basketball. I play baseball and I had the same issue pretty much my whole career. I'm going into my senior year now and even though it's a different sport I will try to apply the same method you've laid out for me. Thank you, Matt

This is some good stuff.... I really needed this today. Had a rough day today in hoops, and this is exactly what I needed.

I seriously needed this. Thank you.

This is such a blessing. Thanks a bunch.

It’s crazy how true this is!!!

This is true, I realized this my first college year. I spent my highschool experience trying to prove that im the best. It started to pressure and take toll on me but when college came and I just went out their and play, everything started to come out naturally. I wish i jave learned this earlier tho

hey you are right.

Great story thanks man

I have just found you, but this video is really really great Thanks for the story, it helped me a lot and I like what you do

Wow I really needed to hear this thanks

I feel like any sport is like this. I thank you for this, alot.

Thank you very much ❤️

I feel Daniels pain I started playing basketball last year and I was so obsessed to do good in the game. I try to hard sometimes so I want to try this technique.

I needed this

Man, beyond basketball and all those deep thoughts, you are an extremely talented orator!

Thank you for your wisdom

Thank you so much.

This law Really Means A lot to me

Interesting concept & anecdote.

You just explained my life story damn i am literally daniel

I was Daniel when I was in grade 9, I improved so much over the winter of grade 10 because I let go of trying hard at it, and started to be playful. “Play” basketball is important

Now i know how to play it right...thank so much...

This is awesome 💯✊🏿

Thanks so much for this video. I dont really know how i find this but I feel like is was destined. Me and my friend Johnny trained hard for a maximum of sometimes 7 hours straight every day. working as hard as we can but once our sophomore season started me and him were both benched and never never got over 30 seconds in a game. We trained harder and everytime we got in id always get lost in my head. I miss a shot id look at my coach and Johnny was the same. I was missing shots that i know id could easily make and was too lost of trying to perform and it got to the point i wanted to quit and called my self trash every day. We had b games and even in the b games A team players would start over me. I was hurt because I felt like B games were always a chance to show up and i never could. But in practice sometimes we'd be unstoppable and Johnny was like this all the time. I couldn't give up because that felt like I've officially lost. but it hurt me so bad when Johnny on one day told me this was gonna be his last year. He said he couldn't go another season getting humiliated. Ive witnessed him put his all in his season just to get no acknowledgement. I started to hate my coach because of this. At practice i felt my coach picked us up just to be a moving body bag for the starters so i just said f it and gave up on the rest of the season. Sometimes in practice id see johnny showed traits of someone with high basketball iq and he'd make everything just for my coach to sit him. When i watched this video it reminded me when you get in that point of not trying to hard and just relaxed and calm but you still got the eyes of a tiger. I best describe it as an ultra instinct type mode from dragon ball super. Your just letting your body do all the work and you sit there in your mind and relax yet dangerous. Im definitely gonna show him this video and i hope that next year me and johnny will go crazy. Were on a mission to prove our worth.

I was playing for a camp that I went to and I just was to the point where I didn’t care if I did good or bad I just wanted to have fun and I was doing things I didn’t know I could do and my point of view of the game changed completely.

Speaking straight facts

Bro thanks yo so much this is helping me 🙏

I felt that, my mom wasn't a booster for the school

I don't know how to put into words how accurately this "Daniel's" life up to 1:33, I literally just got a coaching job a few months ago. Like seriously, I think you're explaining my life....

This is life changing I’m usually like a 7-8 th man and I’m always so confused because I play great In Practice and pick up, my friends never had this because when I was in 5th grade I got cut but they didn’t and I worked my butt of and barley got any playing time, by the time I was on the floor my legs were shaking and I was just scared that I would mess up, I’m now a good shooter with a nice handle and I think that this coming season I could have a breakthrough, my parents always said “just be confident it’ll come” but I never believed them J think that with this I’ll just be able to sink in to the game that I live and be a much better player

wow this guy sounds a lot like me growing up. And the one thing is for sure that I learned over the years of playing basketball is that you have to relax while playing. Because if your stressing out over whether to take the shot or pass it to a teammate to make it you are not going to be a good player. Now even though I am 17 and have not been on a high school team or any team for that matter. Its something that I learned in pick up basketball.

3:40 It's weird but your whispery voice makes me relax!!!!

Had a guy in highschool that played basketball so effortlessly. His offensive game was pure and no one noticed his skill but me. I would always root for him during scrimmages and mentor him ( I was a couple years older than him) and peope thought I was weird. He played on the "B" team his freshman year and got cut even though he averaged almost 20 a game with 10 assist.

Hey I have a game at the time of the masterclass, can I still listen at another time

I was like this in gr 6,7,8 my natural ability was their then when I reached hs I was so focused on doing what I was doing before and trying to play so good but all I had to do is what I was doing

That's weird because when I play my hardest and can't seem to handle and control the ball as well. When I am "relaxed and try" I do moves and combos I didn't even know I could.

Can u upload the master classes in yt i cant catch them

Bro this makes so much sense now. ill be practicing and i cant make any shots so i go take a break and then right after ill take random shots like fade away threes and all of them go in its like i know what to do but i think too much.

Bro thank you sincerely

Quality info

Coach i know the feel when i m in the state where i just do naturally and accidently make ton move that i never pratice and saw but i dont know how to get in that state

All hoopers keep working don’t think just do you when you on the court cause if you really grinding it’s going to be a natural instinct and the game gonna come to you. If you think while playing the game of basketball you usually get into your own head.

I know exactly what your talking about. I reach this mental state sometime, but I have a really high motor so it’s hard to combine the two

When i started basketball i always want to score. In 5v5 games i only score 10 below. But when i started passing i felt like I'm unstoppable and when i have a good pass i felt like no one can stop me and that made my game feel better.

This was literally me, I have been playing varsity since 10th grade and I started playing basketball going to 8th grade. I have literally been working out the summer going to senior for like 4 hr a day and even when I had work at like 8pm I would go to the y at like 5:30pm and work on ma handles and weight lifting, I was even dunkin and I’m 5”11 still growin. I was really good but sum how the coach really never put me in and less we was losin losin then he kicked me off the team and said I had bad grade but really I had good grades and the people that was startin had bad grades, and they wasn’t even good. But I’m not gonna give up just because I had a horrible experience. I’m gonna chase ma dream til I make it💯.

Спасибо за видео

Nice

I wonder if “Daniel” is watching this

yea, sometimes when i try too hard then i play like trash But when I'm relaxed, damn, it's like second nature

i was about to comment something about this being related to the “flow state” and then he mentioned it 😂

I don’t play on a team but I play pickup games regularly and I recently had a game where I was making layups I had never even practiced with ease, I just felt so in the zone

Good video

Sometimes we hoopers got to realize that we’re not playing the game to get attention from the crowd or because you’re the best on the court. You need to just play for the love of the game not the fame.

Can you make a full video sharing the technique... I’m just seeing the video

I was the same way I know I could hoop and was one of the best on the team. But for me it was a Coach thing when I was at the program it was like I was a robot if I didn’t play the exact way he wanted me to he would take me out so from him doing that it through my confidence off so I would overthink. But once I left that program Virginia prep sports academy I knew what to look for I looked for a coach that would let me be me and wants all of his players the succeed and now I’m at Hargrave military academy and Now I’m ranked in my state and playing my style of basketball that can help my school win games!!! So it wasn’t me It was my coach some people might have bad coaches if you do get away from it that’s what Ja mordant did!!!

Hey coach where can i watch the masterclass in case i cant attend on time

Can you show the masterclass at other times as well because I’ll be in school while it’s on (I live in Australia)

This is gonna sound silly, but you sound like Yoda. I've always had his words "there is no try, only do" in the back of my head, and when Obi-Wan tells luke to "Let go" I get chills, because true ability emerges from the flow, which is effortless.

Im a 6’3 13 year old that began dunking consistently around 5 months ago and i have played bench my entire life. I recently began to make 100 and shoot around 200 shots a day to advance my jumpshot and am currently at 47% at the three. I used to be the tall kid that was only there because he is tall, but Now I’m starting to get better. Through my whole life i have been a bench player despite my efforts and i hope by next year i can get the recognition i deserve. I feel like by 15 I could be better than bronny because i am equal in skill to him as I am now, But the mindset of being a bench player is permanently engrained in my head. I Don’t want to shoot or dribble in games because i feel that my coach would put me back on the bench and I just get rebounds and get easy dunks.

Great story! I just talked about how important the mental aspect of basketball is in my recent vlog!

it works. trust me

I agree with most of this video, however its not just about "one technique" that magically can get you into the zone 😂 its about getting experience playing the game. The more you play the game the more natural everything about it becomes, its that simple

when i click the link and i press save my seat for the masterclass it says checking availability and then nothing happens. please let me know, i really want to know about the deep game!

So do I need to write this on that sheet u gave us?

Law of reverse effort is real

This is the real zone

Hello sir! I know this is an out of the blue question but what are your top 10 books for athletes?

The same thing that happened to Daniel is happening to me. Except I’m still a sophomore. I feel like it’s too late for me to turn my carreer around so I might quit

Y'all what he is saying is true, i call it in the zone there is one time like my game popped out like really really good i do handles that i never even practiced i got my shooting to 80% 8/10 3pts in one game.

U are a fucking legend sir ! Thank you for the amazing content

Man this type of videos are much more helpful than any other tutorials of playing ball 💯. This made me think about things that i would have never thought about before. Really helpful and can't wait untill the other episodes are out❤❤🏀

Merch imma be a starter now

200% relatable

I just watched this, can i still watch it at deepgame?

Wow, I didnt realize I was already doing this

Bro It says that it will be 2pm eastern time but I’m sending this on Wednesday? Is he doing another session.

Unpopular opinion: I think in these case, Ben Simmons is one of the best example. Entering the game as a Nets player, he was awful. But coach knows what he can do and keep playing him. Now he's playing like his former self. Most of the time, coaches have to acknowledge the potentials of players and play them more. They have to play more. I always play a few minutes so everytime i play, i was always the try hard guy. So coaches play the biggest role here for me... if not one of the biggest role