(Photo: Nam Y. Huh, Associated Press)
Chicago — Eli Brooks figures he tried just about everything.
Meditation. Visualization. But try as he might, his game — and the confidence that’s necessary to play it at this level in college basketball — seemed lost in a fog.
Michigan’s sophomore guard went more than two full months without making a 3-point shot in a game this winter. He went from shooting 41 percent from behind the line in November to 25 percent in December to a goose egg in January and February.
And as his self-assurance waned, eventually so did his minutes.