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Jan 2024
6m 21s

How Training With Ego Kills Basketball P...

Taylor Allan
About this episode

The critical importance of training without ego, if you want to maximize basketball performance.

DeepGame has officially retired, but the best is yet to come. Here are two ways to follow the next chapter of my work:

Subscribe to the Beyond Basketball newsletter:

https://taylorallan.me/deep-game

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- Taylor

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