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Message: [QUOTE="Tonyc, post: 3845435, member: 73"] The first thing you need to do is take a day or two off. Go to a movie get away from the gym. During the season thats tuff to do with so many games bunched together. Then its back to basics. Begin shooting from a few feet from the basket. Shoot until you make 10 in a row from one spot. Start slow and develop a rhythm. The move to the left then the right and do the same thing. What your trying to build on is confidence and seeing the ball go through the hoop gives your brain an image of that happening. Visualization is very important in building the right mind set. I remember having problems with my golf swing and I took 3 days off and just visualized hole by hole and perfect shots. Every golf shot went down the middle and every putt went it. I did that with alot of enthusiasm. No mechanics just the ball flying in the air perfectly each time. A few days later I went out and played great. When your slump gets inbetween your ears you need to go back to basics. Have fun with it, make it fun. Fun makes you smile and smiling clears your thought process. Slumps cause stinkin thinkin. After you make 10 shots in a row from 3-5 spots close to the basket move back and continue. Keep doing that for as many days as it takes and do it 2-3 times a day, and as many times as it takes for it to become fluid and brain free without thinking. Follow that up with taking 50-100 foul shots in groups of 10 until you can make 9/10 or better. Do that 3 times a day too. Repetition is the mother of skill. The one thing you dont need when your in a slump is negativity. Especially having people tell you that you stink or your no good or whats wrong with you. You need to get your butt out there and work it off. It may take a little bit more time then you want it to but your mind is not a microwave where you turn for a few minutes and bingo its done. I think that when your shot is not falling and you follow these thoughts within a week you'll be shooting better. The more you do it the better you get. [/QUOTE]

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