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    Basketball Visionetics: Mental Preparation for Better Play
    Basketball Visionetics: Mental Preparation for Better Play
    Basketball Visionetics: Mental Preparation for Better Play
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    Basketball Visionetics: Mental Preparation for Better Play

    By Edwin L. Atlas

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateJan 24, 2014
    ISBN9781452587042
    Basketball Visionetics: Mental Preparation for Better Play
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    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

      Copyright © 2013 Edwin L. Atlas .

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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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

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