Accept Your Role

Normally, every high school kid that goes to college, you're going to be the best player on your high school team, you know, and you're going to have eight to 10 of those guys, you know, on your college team. So now how do you fit in? What role do you play? You go to the next level in the NBA, you better have an elite skill, passing skill, a knockdown shooter, a rebounder, because there's only so many, you know, Luka Doncic's, Kawhi Leonard's, Steph Currys, etc. So it's like the tough thing as a coach is to get a kid to accept their role for the betterment of the team. Because a lot of times I call them the externals. You have people around the kid, you know, tell them you got to shoot more, you know, so and so is not passing you the ball, you know, whatever it may be to get into the kid's head. But I think the ability to accept the role and play your role out, you know, says a lot about you and, and how you can relate to a team. And even when you're on a really good AAU team or high school team, a lot of.