 Sup you guys, what is up and welcome back to another video. Welcome back to another story time. You guys are probably getting used to these or sick of them. Who knows? But today's video is another story. This time it's from high school and it's a sporting story, but it's a life's lesson. You know what I mean? I don't know if it's a life's lesson. It's just a funny story. It's a really funny story. It's a way that coaches can use a bit of psychology you know for younger players to just to sort of get a bit of it. I guess it's a drill. It's a practice technique that coaches can use I guess to to assess where their players are at psychologically. You could say like honestly it just makes me laugh thinking about it. Oh man I don't even know yeah I don't know if there are any lessons to be learned from this apart from practice your fucking free throws okay practice your free throws. If you're playing you know if you're playing a game of rugby practice your passes practice you want practice your you know your five percenters you know your base skills first you know you know you know you know you know good being able to do a well let's let's go back to basketball you know good being able to do a being able to do a slip and slide to a fucking between the legs up to a 360 ale up off the backboard 360 dunk okay you can't if you can't fucking pass the ball properly there's no point in doing that because passing is an integral part of the game so if we're talking about rugby once again there's no point being able to do all this flashy shit without being able to do the fundamentals which is tackle kick and pass so let's go back to basketball for a second here we are okay I make the the the the senior boys team very very successful basketball team the probably the most successful sports team I've been a part of ever we went undefeated in the regular season in Christchurch we went to nationals I think we came 17th I went up to Auckland with the team we played in the national tournament the best high schools in the country some tall timber I was about six foot tall at that point playing power forward up against guys that would six foot six okay no didn't work very well I was the size of a point guard but I didn't have the handles of a point guard anyways and also didn't have the free throws of a point guard so let me think back um there was a funny as drill it's crack up bro and it just tests it just it can it just oh I can't even explain it it's you know you're either on a good you're either on the good side of it or the bad side of it and I unfortunately was on I guess the bad side of it so what happens is the team lines up okay one person goes up to take a free throw right each person gets two free throws just like you're fouled you go to the foul line you take your two free throws okay so let's say I get the ball I get the free throws I go to the free throw line okay first thing is I'm shooting in front of absolutely everybody everybody's watching all good before you shoot the coach asks okay guys right we've got Jacob McDonald on the line I think I was sitting at about 40% as far as free throws go in the game so yeah worse than Shaq um no excuses just never practice them really so anyways I go up to the line the coach says just like everyone else right guys if you think he's going to make this shot stand to the left if you think he's going to miss this shot stand to the right now after they do that the next part's crucial okay the coach then says okay so if you're correct in your prediction you get to stay here if you're wrong in your prediction you have to run a suicide okay so what that means is that even if he's your friend even if you're just trying to make him feel good you don't want to run that suicide so you know that is really it's really gonna you know answer it basically creates a very very very very very very honest answer and guys I don't need to tell you what happened the whole entire team went to the side that said no he's not gonna get it and I missed I missed okay of course I did you don't know how much I wanted to get that shot just to just to see them run but I knew it I knew it I literally knew it there were guys on that team that were hitting 90% 80% like you'd expect them to get it that the the free throw action was just so sweet those guys of course you'd expect them to get it if they missed it well it's a suicide every now and then but for me oh god they used to love to give me shit about the way that I lined up for my free throws what my knees would do in the action of bending down and then coming back up for the shot apparently my knees would go inward and they'd give me so much shit for it and I'd be like what are you talking about my knees are straight and then I go into a shot and lo and behold my knees would go inward for some reason so it looks just crack up on the line and I'd always miss and you know that was what a funny story but the best part of the story guys is you know I did have the last laugh on that particular day we did this drill all the time it's a great drill you can always do it I'm sure you can do it for different skills not just shooting for a you know a basket you can do it for soccer with goals um you know rugby with kicks through a goal or anything tackling one-on-one tackling if you get this tackle willy tackle this guy if you think he will stand this side if you don't think he will stand that side if he misses it and you thought he was gonna get it you have to run a length blah blah blah it's a fantastic it's a fantastic little drill to include in sports and well I experienced the worst and the best of it because because you know I'm happy to say that when the ball was passed back to me for my second of two free throws they all stayed on the no side and I sunk it I sunk the fucking thing and a roar of laughter obviously you know went around everyone ran the suicide I think I even ran the suicide just for the hell of it and uh you know I got one of two and oh it just makes you laugh doesn't it it really does you know basketball I'd always wanted to be in the A team you know even from age 13 14 15 going through third fourth and fifth form I always wanted to be in the A team but I always made the B team and then when it finally came to be to playing seniors in sixth form I trained hard throughout that off-season I trained hard so I could go to the school trials and try and walk on and become for the first time a member of the cashmere high school boys A team knowing that they played on saturdays knowing that they played in this you know into school comp and knowing that all going well you might get a spot to go to nationals and it all went really well I can vividly remember my best game was 20 points against ara nui uh I probably averaged about four points a game probably about 10 minutes a game but that game I think it was a bit of a blowout that gave me a lot of minutes I even took a three I took a three on a fast break I got a fast break and I pulled up for a three and I sunk it bro that day that day I'll never forget cashmere vs ara nui 2007 at qe2 and uh oh man even thinking back like the warm-ups you know warm-ups for a gamer rugby is cool but warm-ups for a gamer basketball is the best that is so much fun so much fun going out for layups anyone that can dunk in the team you know starts you know when you're when you're on the court that team's down there you're down here you're warming up anyone that can dunk will and you know people start getting up you start getting around your teammates you start getting amped at the end of the day I'd always start on the bench but basketball days bro are my you know some of my fondest memories alongside rugby days alongside soccer days and uh you know it's these it's these moments that you will remember for the rest of your life so I don't know what you're going to take from this video but what a crack-up what a crack-up drill to have you know what I mean it really gets an honest answer out of your players and I guess the title of this video is going to be something something about honesty something about this is the way to get you know true honesty from your players something like that anyways guys uh yeah one like equals one prayer I do still love to shoot around the basketball but I don't think I'll ever play competitive basketball again in my life but I can still dunk and that makes me feel pretty good so with all that being said guys have a fantastic day I wish you the best and peace out