Continuing from explanation about using your vision, body, and mind in basketball, this the explanation focus about vision part. When somebody asked “What makes someone a good basketball player?”, many people will answer things like height, excellent skills, long arms, great athleticism, etc. They are not wrong but usually they forgot one fundamental thing. It is vision. What a vision can do? Vision can captures enemy weakness and transfer it to become an opportunity that you can use for your benefit.
Vision can also used to intimidate your opponent. Some basketball player like to stare at the opponent right into the eyes. This thing will make the opponent hesitate and rethink before he attempts to make a move that cause to losing the opportunity and end up passing the ball to someone else.
Vision also can be use to make an eye fake. This is one of the most popular and most often fake technique that used in basketball game. While your eyes look to some direction as if you will go to that way, but your body don’t. This technique needs prior communication, killer basketball sense, mount of experience, and team work.
So, try to use your vision to take your basketball game to the next level. Eyes can be a very deadly weapon in the field.
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