Kevin Ware

[twocentsworth]

Originally Posted by gojeremy

Lets take "fair game" out of my question. How do you keep your emotions under control to call the best game possible?

For me, I increase my Focus and Concentration during the game. I focus on each possession and concentrate on the specific situation.

I do several specific things:
1) At the beginning of each possession, I look at the game clock and verbally say the time that the possession started ("12:21"). Should there be a shot clock issue, I know when the possession started and can easily fix the problem.
2) During each time out, I do a verbal "game reset" ("UL 44 Duke 42. UL has 4 fouls Duke has 3 fouls. Both teams have 4 timeouts. Next media TO is under 12minutes").
3) In last 10:00 of game, I verbally say who has the possession arrow.
4) When the game emotion (or mine when dealing w/a player or coach) increases, I use a breathing exercise (3 seconds to breathe in, hold it for 3 seconds, exhale for 3 seconds, hold no breath for 3 seconds; then repeat process). This slows my heart rate and calms me down to see and think more clearly.

Others may have better or different methods.....