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How did you realize your biggest challenge was mental, not physical? Davion Mitchell: Nah, I just knew I was doing the work, and I knew I was killing it in practice; I was killing it in the workouts, I'm killing it in one-on-ones because I'm not thinking about other things. I'm just, all right, this is practice, so I get the hoop, I'm not thinking of other things, and then when I got in the game, I felt like I was trying to play perfect. And then I knew it was mental because I'm like, I didn't try to play perfect in practice. I didn't try to play perfectly when I'm playing one-on-one. I'm just out there playing free, and then I realized that damn, like I'm really putting this game, a basketball game, instead of like practice, I'm making it bigger than what it is. I'm still doing the same thing. It's still the same goal; it's still the same ball. It's just me looking at the whole situation and putting emotion on it, and I had to stop doing that.
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