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30-Day Mental Toughness Tracker
A printable one-page tracker. Check off one small mental-game action a day for 30 days and watch the habit build.
Unlock with a free accountLocked In Situations — ebook (EPUB)
All the Situations stories in one ebook. Best for Kindle, Apple Books, and other e-readers.
Unlock with a free accountLocked In Situations — PDF
All the Situations stories in one PDF. Reads anywhere; good for printing too.
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The Situations Series
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Short stories about the exact moments that rattle players, and the one tool that turns each around. Prefer them offline? The whole set is in the member ebook above.
Theo · playing undersized
When You're the Smallest Player on the Court
The scouting report on Theo was simple: he's the small one, go at him. The matchup wasn't the problem — agreeing with it was. How the .5 mentality puts your own game back on the floor.
Read it freeJaylen · value beyond scoring
I Only Scored Two Points
Jaylen checked the box score after a win and felt his stomach drop. Two points. The box score catches a sliver of what you do on a floor — here's how to count the plays that actually win games.
Read it freeJordan Vance · the pressure of being counted on
When Everyone Needs You
From the outside, Jordan Vance looks like the coldest player in the gym. Here's what the outside doesn't see — and the one-job micro-goal that shrinks a whole game down to the next possession.
Read it freeAndre · timing after a growth spurt
Growing Into My Game
Andre grew a lot this past year, and movements that used to feel familiar now feel different. How one word — "yet" — turns an off-balance stretch from a verdict into a to-do list.
Read it freeSofia · confidence through evidence
I'm Not a Shooter
Sofia was wide open in the corner and passed it up again. She wasn't missing shots anymore — she'd stopped taking them. How an honest shooting log rebuilds a shooter from evidence, not pep talks.
Read it freePriya · reading coverage
Pass-First Isn't Pass-Only
"They're not guarding you. You have to make them guard you." Priya's defender kept going under every ball screen. How reading the coverage — and taking what it gives — makes a pass-first guard whole again.
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The Long-Term Benchwarmer
The book covered how to treat a single game on the bench as an audition. This is the harder one: what to do when the bench is your whole season — and how to come out of it a better player who still loves the game.
Read it freeWhen the Pressure Comes From Home
The book's Chapter 14 is the one almost nobody writes. This is the deeper version — because pressure at home never looks the same twice. There's a page for the player and a page for the parent.
Read it freeTest your Hoop IQ
20 questions from the book. See how locked in you really are.
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