Basketball Visionetics: Mental Preparation for Better Play
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and coaching in South Korea and Italy, plus within the States in DC, Maryland, Virginia, Indiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Oklahoma. He also played for several White House and Pentagon basketball teams during his military career.
Edwin L. Atlas
Coach Edwin L. Atlas brings over forty years of playing and coaching experience at the high school, AAU, Boys & Girls Club, and recreational levels. Coach Atlas personally witnessed highlight moves of ABA/NBA all-star Julius “Dr. J” Erving as a youth and played on the same playgrounds in his hometown of Hempstead, New York. He played competitive basketball for various teams with the US Army for twenty-three years, including a semiprofessional season in Istanbul, Turkey. His globe-trotting experience includes playing and coaching in South Korea and Italy, plus within the States in DC, Maryland, Virginia, Indiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Oklahoma. He also played for several White House and Pentagon basketball teams during his military career.
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Basketball Visionetics - Edwin L. Atlas
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ISBN: 978-1-4525-8705-9 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4525-8704-2 (e)
Balboa Press rev. date: 4/1/2014
Contents
Epigraph
Basketball Visionetics Introduction
1. Are you a player?
2. Believe!
3. G.S.3 (Game Shots, Game Spots, Game Speeds)
4. Game-Face
5. Pre-Game Prep
6. Basketball Jones
7. Buzzer beaters
8. Anger Management
9. How to Get over the Hump and Out of any Slump!
10. Got Benched?
11. Little things that count big
12. Basketball Greatness
13. It’s Not What You Say
14. No Gym?
15. I Am!
16. You Shoot a Perfect Jump Shot!
17. Shot Repair
18. Crunch Time!
19. Free Throw Ritual
20. Overcoming Losing
21. Mental Toughness
22. Are You The Glue?
23. It Ain’t the Shoes!
24. Teamwork
25. Stay
26. Basketball Swagger
27. Hoop Soup for the Baller’s Soul
28. How Bad Do You Want It?
29. Wanted: A Junkyard Dog
30. Always!
31. Beast-Play
Bibliography and other basketball resources for better playing
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Dedication
To basketball players at all levels looking for the empowering mental edge
Author’s Note: Basketball Visionetics is a collection of mental lyrical poems for all ages
and for both genders. For easier reading comprehension, I wrote using
the male pronoun throughout the text. As you continue reading
you will discover that I use the pronoun he
instead of he/she.
This is done only to simplify the reading.
Epigraph
The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. – Sun Tzu
Basketball Visionetics Introduction
Basketball Visionetics is a collection of motivational poems that are visual, audio, and kinesthetic.
The poems include questions and other mental cues for basketball players to learn and use.
For example: What do you do when you take a shot and badly miss?
Do you get upset in a negative response to this?
How do you get out of a shooting slump?
How about when you’re so tired you think you can’t jump?
There are notes on how to overcome losing