In Reply to: at least 7 FR on the All-American teams... posted by ClockBlocker on March 17, 2026 at 15:38:01
- Defensive recognition drills
- Rotational decision‑making
- High‑speed situational reads
- Processing under fatigue
These are all cognitive‑processing drills embedded into basketball actions.
Furthermore, practice footage, similar to the YouTube videos posted this season, shows UCLA players performing:
- Rapid cue‑response actions
- Multi‑variable decision sequences
- Defensive rotations requiring anticipatory processing
These are not "cognitive drills," per se, but they ARE cognitive‑processing tasks in sports‑science terms.
Also, UCLA Athletics has:
- In‑house sports psychologists
- Mental‑skills training resources
- Performance‑optimization staff
And development programs that typically include:
- Focus and attention‑control training
- Visualization
- Stress‑response conditioning
- Decision‑making under pressure
These are all examples of activites that can grow a player's mental processing speed over the course of a season.
And while the results aren't driect evidence of improved mental processing speed, everyone can see that Donovan Dent, Eric Freeny, and Trent Perry have all improved over the course of the season.