Why Your Coach Is Making You Choke | Sports Psychologist Dan Abrahams

Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/CLNS and use code CLNS and get $150 if you win your first $5 lineup! Does yelling at players actually work? Sports psychologist Dan Abrahams joins Coach Nick to break down what really happens in an athlete's head under pressure, and why so many coaches make it worse. Dan has spent 30 years in high performance sport, serving as lead psychologist for England Golf, England Rugby, and Aston Martin F1, and working with six Premier League clubs, MLS and NWSL teams, and more than 50 college programs. He's the author of the bestsellers Soccer Tough and Golf Tough, hosts The Sports Psych Show, and his new book is Compete. We get into ANTs (automatic negative thoughts) and why Dan calls them the biggest killers in basketball, how to build a game script around three specific, controllable plays, why attention is the currency of coaching, and Dan's Game Face technique for stepping on the court dominant and relentless. Then we tackle the anger and disgust coaching debate, Tom Izzo's defense of screaming at players, how constraints change behavior better than yelling ever will, and why no 11 year old should be getting shouted out of sports. Get the book Compete HERE. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:46 From bad pro golfer to sports psychologist 3:18 Why basketball and soccer are the same game mentally 4:50 Does pressure even exist? 7:01 ANTs: the biggest killers in basketball 11:52 The game script: 3 things, not 10 13:37 Shooting cues, rhythm, and process over results 14:41 Attention is the currency of coaching 18:06 Game Face: become dominant and relentless 23:50 "Are you a good shooter?" 27:09 The hot hand and how coaches kill it 28:58 The mindset scale 31:34 Practice vs. game: should coaches act differently? 35:01 Anger and disgust coaching (Tom Izzo, Rick Pitino) 42:53 Constraints beat screaming 44:38 Bobby Knight coaching and what youth sports are for 47:02 Outdated drills and how we train defense 50:45 Where to find Compete BBall Breakdown: We're not a channel. We're a conversation. You in? #basketball #sportspsychology #coaching #mentalgame #basketballcoaching Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices