{"id":1736,"date":"2014-12-23T10:34:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2015-01-08T12:23:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T17:23:50","slug":"can-learn-brandon-jennings-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/blog\/index.php\/can-learn-brandon-jennings-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"How You Can Learn From Brandon Jennings\u2019 Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a quote from Brandon Jennings, point guard for the Detroit Pistons, when explaining why they aren\u2019t shooting the ball well.<\/p>\n

“If you ask the question about why we’re not making shots, we don’t shoot. We don’t shoot in practice. We haven’t really had a chance to work on our games or anything. When we do have shootarounds, we’re not able to get up shots like we should. I just think if you’re going to have shootaround in the morning, I think it’s good that you get loose and you should work on shots that you’re going to take in the game. Even before, after practice, we’ve got to start getting in the gym, just working on our game more.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I don\u2019t know Brandon Jennings. He could have a great character and just had a bad moment…<\/p>\n

But there are so many things wrong with this approach…<\/p>\n

He\u2019s being a victim… he\u2019s not taking ownership. He\u2019s passing blame to the coaches on why he\u2019s not making shots… why he\u2019s not getting more practice shots.<\/p>\n

Are you telling me… at any level… but especially the professional level, that you can\u2019t arrange time to get more shots up?<\/p>\n

There is a reason that you don\u2019t hear players like Stephen Curry, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose, and Kobe Bryant say things like this.<\/p>\n

Being a victim will ruin your sports career. And worst off, it will ruin your life.<\/p>\n

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How You Should Approach This Situation<\/strong><\/p>\n

A leader… a person who is going to be successful in life would have approached this situation with a problem-solving mentality. You own the situation. You are proactive.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re given a situation… maybe a situation that isn\u2019t ideal… maybe it is. But you make the best of that situation.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t sit there and gripe about it. That\u2019s wasting time and energy that you could be putting towards making yourself and the situation better.<\/p>\n

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.<\/p>\n

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Okay… I\u2019m not shooting as well as I should be and my team is not shooting as well as we should be… why is this happening and what I can do to help with this situation?<\/p>\n