Hey guys!

We’ve got tons of amazing things happening here at BT Basketball and wanted to make sure everyone had the most updated information on everything that’s going on. I hope your season is going incredibly well and you are getting stronger each and every week! Check out the current, and near future, happenings…

  • We are smack dab in the heart of our Winter Middle School Skill Sessions. These kids are getting extra skill work that’s hard to find throughout the course of practice. To find out more info on the next few sessions, please click HERE.
  • We also have ongoing Little Ballers sessions for 1st-4th graders on Monday evenings. These are designed to cultivate a foundation of proper skill in a fun environment. To get signed up click HERE
  • Spring AAU tryout dates have been announced as well! We are extremely excited to be offering additional teams this year and include exclusive BT Basketball skills training! Click HERE to get registered today!
  • Once again we’ve got the Spring Men’s League starting mid March and running through until Memorial Day Weekend. With the best adult talent in the area hands down, click HERE to see if you can keep up with these guys. If so, get registered!
  • We have added a new page to the site called ALUMNI. This page includes current and former BT Basketballers just over the last few years. Time to get your name on this list!
  • Quick shout out to the members of the first ever BT Basketball Insider Training Program.  This is a group of High Schoolers who each week are diligently working on their strength, injury prevention, skill work and more through weekly workouts and a private Facebook group that includes exclusive videos. Proud of each of their efforts.

I have had the chance to get out to many high school games this year and it has been tremendous. I absolutely LOVE watching players succeed who I know worked their butt off during the off season. The basketball season is a long one. There are ups and there are downs. Physically, emotionally, mentally, it can be very trying at times. The biggest key to long term success over the course of this long season is….

ATTITUDE

Plain and simple, your attitude from here on out will determine your success. I’m hoping you have a coach that will continually push you hard enough each and every practice where you won’t have a choice but to work hard. So THAT choice may not be yours (which is sometimes a very good thing).

However… you ATTITUDE will ALWAYS be YOUR choice. You attitude on…

-How you view that day’s upcoming practice before it arrives

-How you view your coaches

-How much you allow your coaches to coach YOU

-How positively (or negatively) you approach that day’s challenges

-How you react to a bad game

-How you interact with your teammates

-How you look at situations as learning ones or losing ones

-How you react when the coach favors another player

-How you react with you don’t get as much playing time as you would like

We can go on and on, but hopefully you get the point. You’ve heard the saying before. Sometimes you can’t control what happens to you. But, you can always control how you react to what happens to you. That’s where you find out how badly you want to succeed. That’s when you will find out what you are truly made of. That’s here you will build character that will stay with you for the rest of your long life.

CHOOSING how to react is vastly more important than what actually happens. Basketball, life, one in the same.

Hard work and incredible skill improvement is accomplished mostly during the off season simply because you have so much time to make this happen. However, once the season rolls around, which is now, it is your attitude that will separate you.

You say… well my role is set and my coach won’t change his mind.

I say… opportunity comes at strange times, often when you least expect it. Injuries happen, gameplans change. Small windows of opportunity for the posititive and for the ready turn into transformed roles.

No matter where you are at, stay POSITIVE and keep working HARD. It is often easier to get down than it is to stay up. It takes work and effort, that’s why so many people don’t do it. But you are part of BT Basketball and it’s time to separate yourself!

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