Basketball Tips

When I wake up each morning the first thing I do is head out to the court to practice some free throws. In the middle of shooting my daily 150 from the line I started to wonder "What makes some players shoot 90% when many others can only make 40%?" After thinking about it for a while the only answer I could come up with is dedication. When you are 7'1" and 320 lbs like Shaq you have a natural gift for the game of basketball. When you have size like that you can easily dominate the game without spending too much time at the gym. It is guys like this, who have a large amount of raw talent, that you often see struggling at the line.

Those not blessed with this natural gift must do something extra to become an elite talent in basketball. What separates them from the herd is simply dedication. There are a million guys like Chauncey Billups trying to make it into the NBA. For someone like that to succeed they were forced to dedicate themselves to the game of basketball. Without question they are at the gym everyday shooting hundreds of free throws and outside shots.

Most people are not willing to commit this much dedication to anything, and thus they fail. While you might have the goal of being an NBA all-star, but the lesson still holds true. Whatever your goals may be a certain level of dedication is required to meet them. We all want to think our game is the 7 foot tall Shaq, but the truth is we are just as likely to have those raw abilities as we would popping out our mothers 7 foot tall ready for NBA action. The rest of these basketball tips I give will be useless unless you make a conscious decision to dedicate yourself to working on your game and achieving all the goals you set for yourself.