In improv and basketball alike, the best players focus on making their teammates look brilliant. If everyone adopted this mindset, the whole team would elevate. The question is simple: do you want to be the player who makes others better?
Improv is a team sport. When your mindset is on the court— when I go on stage, my mindset is my goal is to make my partner look like a genius. That's my goal, is to make my partner look like a genius. Imagine if you took that mindset onto the basketball court. My goal today is to make my teammates look brilliant. And what if their mindset was the same as yours, to make everyone else on the team look brilliant? How good are you guys gonna look? Pretty darn good. How much are you gonna want to play with that guy? Who wouldn't want to play with the guy that tries to make them look good? You want to play with that guy? I want to play with that guy. What coach doesn't want to have the guy on his team who tries to make his other teammates look good? Do you want to be that guy?
