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[saphojunkie]

The dumbest narrative in sports is that you can will yourself to be better than you are.

Let me explain something about will and determination and mindset...

They matter when it's time to PRACTICE. When it's time to GO TO BED. When it's time to EAT. When it's time to STUDY FILM. When it's time to REHAB.

They do not matter when it's time to play.

You can't magically make yourself good when you aren't. Trust me... I wanted to be good at basketball so ****ing badly. When you can't jump higher than 15 inches, your "will" and "want to" and "nothing to lose attitude" doesn't mean shit.

Guys rained threes on me and dunked on my head. They did NOT want to win more badly than I did. They often times didn't give a shit.

They were just better.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

The dumbest narrative in sports is that you can will yourself to be better than you are.

Let me explain something about will and determination and mindset...

They matter when it's time to PRACTICE. When it's time to GO TO BED. When it's time to EAT. When it's time to STUDY FILM. When it's time to REHAB.

They do not matter when it's time to play.

You can't magically make yourself good when you aren't. Trust me... I wanted to be good at basketball so ****ing badly. When you can't jump higher than 15 inches, your "will" and "want to" and "nothing to lose attitude" doesn't mean shit.

Guys rained threes on me and dunked on my head. They did NOT want to win more badly than I did. They often times didn't give a shit.

They were just better.

Brilliant post.

I'd love to shoot ropes like Peter North, but no match how much Maca root and Zinc I swallow, it's never gonna happen.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

The dumbest narrative in sports is that you can will yourself to be better than you are.

Let me explain something about will and determination and mindset...

They matter when it's time to PRACTICE. When it's time to GO TO BED. When it's time to EAT. When it's time to STUDY FILM. When it's time to REHAB.

They do not matter when it's time to play.

You can't magically make yourself good when you aren't. Trust me... I wanted to be good at basketball so ****ing badly. When you can't jump higher than 15 inches, your "will" and "want to" and "nothing to lose attitude" doesn't mean shit.

Guys rained threes on me and dunked on my head. They did NOT want to win more badly than I did. They often times didn't give a shit.

They were just better.

Exactly.

I think of it as focus and being in a zone so to speak. The difference between 0-24 vs the Texans and the rest of the game. Not some unprecedented level of willing yourself to victory.

And the Chiefs are now a seasoned playoff team with that level of focus. This whole "Steelers are enraged/bulletin board" stuff could be said about the Chiefs, too, after how last season ended and through 7 weeks this season. What about their 110%?

There's certainly something to be said about a nothing to lose mentality when it comes to going for it on every 4th down and so forth, but if there was a next level of motivation or next level of anger, why didn't they use it to avoid going late into OT against a team that didn't even make it to the playoffs?


Reminds me of when people would say they've watched every Chiefs game for 50 years because "when they win the SB, it'll be that much sweeter".... uh, what are you expecting? Your head to explode from excitement? To be in an orgasmic state for the next 4 weeks?