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Mental development an important and ongoing process for UW’s Benning Potoa’e

Lakes football coach Dave Miller once pulled Benning Potoa’e aside after a high school basketball game. All night, Potoa’e was getting the ball underneath the basket. And all night, he would immediately pass the ball back out.

Miller wanted to know why.

Potoa’e’s answer was simple: “What if I miss?”

“That’s the mentality you got to get away from,” Miller said. “You can’t be worried about missing. You just got to go for it. Even if you miss, you’re going to make most of them.”

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