You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.
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When it's deep into the season and you're not playing well, it's frustrating. This is when it's time to revisit some basics.
A lot of people say second seasons are harder than the first because people are now expecting you to do stuff, so yes, that's down to me to work hard and try and improve and, like I say, just letting my football do the talking.
You obviously want to start the season out with a big game and to follow it up by continuing to get better.
I just really just try to get better as a player every week, just focusing on the team we have to play this week, and just trying to do whatever is best for the team that week.
It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.
I just think repetition and getting the game reps shooting the ball in games really helps, rather than just practicing. You can get game timing.
To me, I've played full seasons and had success. Mentally, I've been through it before. I'm not incapable of going through this.
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.
You never know how much you can do in practice because you never know if you're going to play or not, but the main thing is stay ready.
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