{"id":9509,"date":"2019-06-03T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/sports-psychology-blog\/?p=9509"},"modified":"2025-06-06T06:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:31:51","slug":"5-mental-toughness-skills-in-basketball-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/sports-psychology-blog\/5-mental-toughness-skills-in-basketball-2\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Mental Toughness Skills in Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Be_Mentally_Tough_in_Basketball\"><\/span>Be Mentally Tough in Basketball<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Article Table of 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href=\"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/sports-psychology-blog\/5-mental-toughness-skills-in-basketball-2\/#Sports_Psychology_Coaching_for_Athletes\" >Sports Psychology Coaching for Athletes<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/sports-psychology-blog\/5-mental-toughness-skills-in-basketball-2\/#Or_Call_888-742-7225\" >Or Call: 888-742-7225<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this week&#8217;s <strong>sports psychology<\/strong> podcast, <strong>mental game<\/strong> of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn, answers <strong>mental game<\/strong> questions in Sessions With Doc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This weeks questions is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>&#8220;How to Be Mentally Tough in Basketball&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Listen to Dr. Cohn&#8217;s new podcast to find out what he teaches athletes in the mental coaching 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