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A superstitious as defined by dictionary.com is "believing in, full of, or influenced by superstition." So what is a superstition?? A superstition is defined by those same geniuses as "a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like." So in other words when relating this to the sports world it is doing something over and over again believing that it will somehow affect the outcome of the game.
I am a very very superstitious person. Before every soccer game everything has to be put on the same way. Right side, then left side. For everything for the tights i wear to my socks to tying my shoes. I truly believe that if i do not do everything this exact same way everything will be out of whack and i will have an awful game. The same thing goes for my basketball routine. Everything goes on right left and everything i do in warmups is exactly the same. When we do our layup lines i always to two layups on the right side a baseline jumper and then the rest are threes. From the left side everything is the same except for one layup is a finger-roll instead. So this last game i decided to do everything different. I still got dressed the same because that just isnt allowed to change but during warmups i did everything a little different. So what did this do for me?? Well lets just say i now have new superstitions.
After going 7-10 from three point range and having a career high 23 points while wearing a facemask to protect my recently broken nose i have a feeling i have some new rituals. For starters i think im going to wear that mask for the rest of my life. I have this strange feeling that when i wear it i somehow possess the powers of every other person that has ever worn it. I feel like i can play like Rip Hamilton of the Pistons. I think that my defense can be as good as that of former college of wooster guard Andy Van Horn. I have these powers and just cant wait to use them. Now there is no describing how annoying that mask is constantly making your face hot and never staying in the right spot. But hey if it makes me shoot as well as what i did i think i can deal with that.
Then again maybe it wasnt the mask...maybe it was chopping wood after shootaround that morning...maybe it was wearing the compression shirt that i wore all of last year as my undershirt...maybe it was the little changes in my warmup routine...maybe it was just the feeling that i had the power of my two mask wearing buddies...who knows...but for now im just going to go with it and do everything the same next game and hope for the best. Because im superstitious for a reason....because it works.