What makes a good basketball player

Basketball. Some people may think nothing of it, whereas some may think it’s life. I think it’s poetic, it can be anything you dream of, and it’s the players themselves who turns these dreams into reality. 

Although it frequently gets overlooked, having a good mentally is appealing to coaches and scouts. Many people think that if you want to be on a team, the only characteristic you need to have is to simply just be good at basketball. But it’s not, you need to be able to showcase your work ethic and how hard you’re willing to work for a spot on the team.

Furthermore, being a leader is one of the most important qualities of being a good basketball player. Showing that you’re able to support your teammates no matter the environment you’re surrounded by can make you stand out in a crowd. This includes being able to push your teammates, even if they, and yourself, feel like you can’t train anymore.

As a result of this, players who aren’t the most talented are still able to join professional teams due to the fact that they have a positive attitude, a hard-working mentality, are disciplined and have a positive personality and are leaders.

A good basketball player is always consistent with their training. A consistent training will better increase the outcomes of you becoming a greater player. People, supporters, and your competition will only care about ‘What you got’ not ‘how you got it’. Thus, this makes it even harder for some people to train by themselves as it is a demotivating factor to consistently train when you are training very hard but the outcomes don’t show. This is when the motto “Don’t give up” comes in.

What and how you train is also a very important factor that shapes and changes who you are. The speed of which you improve can vary by how you approach training. For most people, training your weaknesses is quite an obvious aspect you’d like to improve. Individual training and team training are also two different things. Individual training is when you, in most instances, train by yourself, working and training on the individual skill-set that you own(Like shooting, handling and finishing). Team training is where you train to get better as a team and attempt to improve your team chemistry. 

Ultimately, these are the factors that make the ‘perfect’ basketball player and make you unique amongst the many others.