The Situations Series
A bigger world. Same mindset.
The book is Malik's story. The Situations Series is everyone else's — short, real moments from the same world, each with one tool that turns it around. Different kids. Same fight: the one going on between the ears. Every story stands on its own, so start anywhere.
Malik · the free-throw line
Same shooter. Same shot.
One season apart.
November. Game on the line, two mistakes still ringing in his head, the whole gym waiting for him to miss again. Malik carries all of it to the line, head down — and bricks it.
February. Same spot, same pressure. This time he takes one slow breath, wipes the slate, lifts his eyes, and shoots like the game just started.
Nothing about his jumper changed between those two nights. What changed was one breath— the reset that stops one bad moment from becoming three. It's the most useful tool in the book, and it's free to learn: the whole reset drill is in the stories below.
Read the one-breath reset — freeThe stories
Pick a kid. Read the moment. Steal the tool.
When You're the Smallest Player on the Court
A head shorter than the kid he had to guard. The whole gym already knew how this ends — so did he.
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I Only Scored Two Points
His team won by six. All he could see was the two next to his name. In the car, he went quiet.
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When Everyone Needs You
From the outside, the coldest kid in the gym. Nobody saw the mountain he was carrying.
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Growing Into My Game
He grew four inches and his timing never got the memo. Now every rep feels a half-beat off.
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I'm Not a Shooter
Wide open in the corner, and she passed it up. Again. She wasn't missing shots — she'd stopped taking them.
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Pass-First Isn't Pass-Only
“They're not guarding you. You have to make them.” Her defender kept going under every screen.
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One universe
Meet the whole cast
Malik's crew, the rival, the coaches, and the players whose stories live only here. Same world. Same mission.
Coaches & family
The foundation is the book
These stories expand the world. The full mental-game framework — control, resilience, composure, routine, the long game — is all in Locked In.
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