"To keep the lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil on it."

"When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at this rock perhaps 100 times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 101st blow, it will split in two and I know it was not that blow that did it. But all that had gone before."




Earlier, I read Eric Musselman's blog and it talked about how the SAS Spurs posted this on their locker room door. These are words to live by when you just feel like giving up. LIke the popular saying goes, "Rome wasn't built in a day." Consistency, diligence, hard work, a steady work ethic, all are necessary for accomplishments. Most importantly, what you do today will be the result of what happens in the future; sure, fortune will come but the daily work you put in to anything will be more of a factor for your success than simple luck. Just like basketball, school, relationships, work, anything, you gotta work at it all the time, consistently, and not just sporadically in small outbursts. Eric Musselman also had an interesting article about the work ethic of a shooter, Ray Allen and Mike Miller. Ray goes into he arena like 4 hrs before the game, and this one arena's court was being used so he and a trainer had to find another smaller gym within the building. Luckily, they found one and as they were heading inside, he already heard a ball bouncing. It was Mike Miller on the other side of the court, his opponent for the game. But Ray continued to do his routine and it was extraordinary, that on opposite sides of this court, were not opponents, but shooters, who always practiced, shot, practiced, worked hard, and remained consistent. It's practice, and they know that the reason there shots go down, is not because of that early shooting session, but all the previous ones they had done, which got them to their current level. You wanna be good, you gotta practice, be consistent, keep on grinding it out, keep hammering away; back to the quote, Rome wasn't built from one day's work and that rock won't split after a few tries; it comes from faith in your ability and your work ethic. How bad do you want it?


Judging by his shooting skills and that nba ready body, you know he works hard.






























Some quick fundamental shooting tips.