The PGC Blog

When the game gets tougher, confidence can fade. Here’s how to help your child rebuild belief the right way, through real reps, small wins, and the kind of growth that lasts beyond basketball.

Want more playing time? Stop asking for it and start earning it. These five habits separate players coaches trust from players who stay stuck on the bench.

Here are five ways to practice your mental toughness off the court. If you practice these five things, every day, you’ll develop greater self-discipline. You’ll become unstoppable in anything you do. It is five things you will have to rise above your feelings every day. That is how you build mental toughness. You develop, as a habit, a muscle of rising above your feelings to level of your aspirations and commitments.

Build rhythm and consistency with the Green Light Drill—focus on your target eye, maintain quick footwork, and track makes to turn practice reps into game-ready shooting skills

Train your 3-point shooting rhythm with the Longhorn Drill—shoot until two misses, emphasize quality passes, and compete under game-like pressure to build consistency and confidence.

Join Markee Freeman in this in-depth basketball classroom session where he breaks down the secrets of elite shooters. Learn how to be intentional, consistent, and effective with your training, from footprints to follow-through. Discover practical drills, mindset strategies, and techniques to elevate your game.

Jalen Brunson shows how elite guards create space without elite athleticism — using physicality, footwork, pace changes, and two-foot finishing to dominate in the paint.

Learn how the Longhorn Shooting Drill trains rhythm, pressure management, and game-like consistency to help players shoot with confidence.