Basketball Inspiration #1: Michael Jordan

• Michael Jordan has been called the best practice player ever, by many of his coaches. This doesn’t mean only the amount of time he spends practicing. This means that he practices harder than anyone else during practice. He performs each drill as if he was really in a game. By practicing this way he prepares himself on to react at game speed every time. That way when he encounters that situation in a game, he already knows how to react to it. He knows exactly what to do and is able to do it at top speed. By practicing hard and at game speed all the time he teaches himself only to play at that speed and enables him to be prepared to make the great play.
• Michael Jordan also posses one more highly publicized trait that makes him the great player that he is. The burning desire to win and improve. Michael Jordan is famous for being extremely competitive. This desire to win and be the best, helps motivate him to out do every one else. By begin competitive not only against competition, but against himself he makes himself a better player.