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The Positive Effects of Repeatability
by Alan Lambert So do I have to repeat myself here? Sure I do, and so do you! Remember these key points when you are asking yourself why am I practicing so much: 1. Repetition leads to more rapid automation of your basketball skills. Automating your skills allows you to release additional capacity to attend to more critical elements of the game, and to grow as a player in terms of your decision making ability. 2. Repetition can demonstrate that you have the personal ability to listen, change and repeat. All great players can listen, change quickly. They are able to take a detail and switch a key decision or skill component as simply as you would change a fuse in a fuse box. When you can listen and change you are going to get playing time, I guarantee you.Coaches invest time in players who are quick learners. 3. Repetition results in more consistent performances in practices and games. The best players in the game yesterday, today and well into the future are those who can consistently perform. If you are not willing to put in repetitions, you will have to accept your performances will vary like the rolling hills of Kentucky. Consistency also results in higher levels of confidence which open your mind to learning more advanced skills and jumping to higher levels of competition. 4. Repeatability demonstrates you can more rapidly think the game. Your ability to repeat and properly execute plays lets your mind be more adaptable to a constantly changing game environment, and react faster and more intelligently on the court and late in games under duress. 5. Repeatability off the court (reliability) demonstrates to your coaching staff and teammates that you are committed to becoming a great player. Whatever you commit yourself to in the game of basketball both on and off the court, be reliable. Good coaches do everything in their power to prepare you for practices and games by giving you a stable and predictable work environment. Your end of the deal is that you must demonstrate off court reliability if you expect on court repeatability. You've heard the sayings like "fatigue makes cowards of us all", or "you can't stay up with the owls all night an expect to soar with the eagles by day." Taking care of yourself and giving yourself a repeatable environment and being able to physically perform is key to your success. 6. Repeatability in your mental approach to practices and games keeps you out of peaks and valleys as a player and team. When you can say that your practices are as tough or tougher than games, then games become fun. The challenge of performing under pressure become a habit because you take the same repeated approach to stepping on the court regardless of the time or circumstances. Great players and great teams approach the game every single day the same, with a desire win the result of consistent and reliable performances. |
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