Jaime Jaquez Jr. reveals he’s working with a mental coach during offseason

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Jaime Jaquez Jr. reveals he’s working with a mental coach this offseason. Leroy takes it upon himself to give him some insight on what he would say if he were his mental coach.

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00:00speaking of hoops jaime haquez jr was that junior trade block no he's not on the trophy he maybe is

00:07on the trade block i don't know but he was at junior heat camp and revealed that uh you know

00:14he's been on some of the things he's been working on this uh this offseason you got jaime haquez

00:20brenny on the things that he has been working on uh what he's worked on this offseason yeah you

00:26know at first uh when season ended i took some time away just to decompress um gather my thoughts

00:32um really get to a place of peace and then now you know i'm full steam ahead been in the gym every

00:39single day um working on my mind body spirit my my jump shot defense really just getting my body

00:46and mind and tuned um to get ready for this next season are you claiming are you you think jaime

00:53haquez juniors on ayahuasca listen first of all he had the single-handed longest

01:04period of bubble guts in the history of human life he had a lot of stomach issues this year yes

01:11right and he didn't hardly play for whatever reason

01:17but just out of curiosity it caught me off guard when he said this

01:26i took some time off and decompressed

01:31yep you've been decompressing all year dude i think you spent the second half of the season

01:36decompressed he decompressed that f1 too he did he did he uh he went to f1 uh i'm not mad look i get

01:48all that but then when you say i had to focus on mind body and my like there seems to be there is a

01:57jaime jaquez junior off season that feels very i don't know i don't know he also revealed and this

02:08is the other thing that was interesting he said that he is working with a mental coach this off

02:12season here was more of jaime jaquez uh i think you know gaining experience is always huge for your

02:19mental but i think more than anything it's just finding time and and moments in the day to just really

02:25ground yourself and be present i'm working with a mental coach um to try to you know just help

02:30myself become present in the moments you know try to tune out all the noise and just really focus on

02:35what's important i can be your mental coach make a busket make a bucket your mentals are great

02:42stop talking about your wait i hate when athletes take you don't believe in mental coach

02:48i do but here's the issue here's the issue we only resort to these things when we fail

02:57right and and so from from that standpoint i look at it as oh you're reaching and looking for reasons

03:07as to why you sucked you see what i'm saying so that's why i'm a little like saying like so what if

03:18gary anderson the following year said yeah i had to get a mental coach oh i would assume norwood

03:26yeah but i feel like he would why he missed one field goal all year oh no why all of a sudden you

03:32need a mental coach because you missed one the i mean maybe there's a thing with him uh that you just

03:39have to get back to i don't know what because it did feel like with his rookie year he did just go

03:44out and hoop never felt like the game sped up too much for him right last year he basically got

03:49crippled by everybody sticking him in the corner they're like shoot dude go ahead uh and and that

03:57i think kind of messes with you because you're like wait why are you leaving me wide open like

04:00what's going on here and so maybe there's a mental aspect of it that has to get cleared to be like hey

04:07you need to be who you are i don't know here's what i would say

04:11you already have to have a good mental disposition

04:19right to fail 60 to 65 percent of the time

04:25and so like that part of it if if i went from football to baseball or basketball

04:36i would need a mental coach because football is 100 sport and the other two you fail a majority

04:43of the time but if you've actually been doing that sport your whole career you kind of understand

04:51you're going to have some ebbs and flows of it uh of your career everybody does and so i would say

04:58don't just associate needing a mental coach with failure

05:03that's that's the part that i that i'm kind of maybe though it's not maybe it's not about failure

05:11maybe the mental coach unlocks the path to success okay okay that that all sounds great

05:20right and i appreciate what you're doing there right

05:24but again

05:27if you make the game about making or missing shots

05:32i would say shoot more shots

05:35right like what what happens in sports is

05:42when you're unsure of what to do it comes across as being bad right like when when you don't know

05:53whether to shoot it or not then when you finally shoot it it looks crazy right so like yeah i don't i

06:02don't know if he needs help with his ability because we've always known him to be a pretty confident guy

06:10i thought that was the thing like it just felt right played at his own pace

06:14right and so it's fit it's it's it and i don't want

06:18this was uh this was from uh anthony chang's article the miami herald

06:23it said becoming a reliable three-point shooter is among hawkins's top priorities this offseason

06:27not only did hawkins shoot just 31.1 on threes the past regular season

06:31but nba tracking stats say that 111 of his 119 three-point attempts this past regular season

06:38were either open or wide open which is a defender at least four feet away

06:42with teams consistently helping off him daring him to take outside shots

06:47so nobody respects it as like so i think there's probably but i think that can that can mentally

06:53war with you when you go from people guarding me people uh you know especially with a guy

06:58who likes to get people to bite on fakes and move in the paint and things like that and now

07:03all of a sudden you're in this spot in the corner where you're wide open you're like do i shoot this

07:06what do i do what like what and so maybe that's what the mental coach is for or ayahuasca i don't know

07:12uh i'm just like i just think that

07:15failure

07:18is not a reason to be mental you know what i mean like it's it's it's it's a normal thing in sports

07:30right like you it's part of but you need the mind body and spirit to be one

07:38okay that's what he said okay like what did he say in the first one and my question to you is

07:46having better mind spirit or whatever is they still gonna leave him wide as open

07:54yeah they are oh no he's gonna have like they're going to hear his ass and and guess what when you

08:00get into that moment right there it's gonna be how well you prepare for that moment it ain't gonna be

08:06how focused you know how good your mentals are so work at your craft get better at it and you know

08:15what people who are more prepared and comfortable with their preparation usually seem to be more

08:23confident so work harder at it that's it i like leroy mental coach oh i got him i got him like i'm like

08:34yo you've been doing this your whole life what changed all of a sudden

08:37that you got here the three-point line is the same distance the court is still the same size

08:44you're still shooting the same shots it's a little different from that corner three

08:50what did he say in the first one again i don't know sounded like he would

08:55he sounds like he was getting ready to hit something yeah you know at first uh when season

09:02ended i took some time away just to decompress um gather my thoughts um really get to a place

09:08of peace and then now you know i'm full steam ahead been in the gym every single day

09:13um working on my mind body spirit my my jump shot defense just getting my body and mind and tuned

09:21um to get ready for this next season can i just say this i would have felt much better if he had

09:28mentioned that jump shot first yeah right you're a basketball player and leroy's form of payment

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