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Message: [QUOTE="Ghost, post: 1223278, member: 581"] Just for the sake of an argument, to a certain extent if you practice against the same guys every day do you think you may learn to play exclusively against those players? I mean, you practice against CJ Fair every day. Okay. You are now officially an expert on playing against CJ Fair. You know his tendencies. He knows yours. It's a wash at a certain point. The rest of the time who are you playing against? Competition that is inferior to you - not much help there. I also think there is something to be learned from stepping on the court and making mistakes. Maybe you sit down on the bench and watch a little closer - observe and see what CJ is doing that you didn't. You learn to be a student of the game. I think people have a tendency to tune out a tad more readily when they feel they have no (not literally NO) vested interest in the outcome. I'm not going to play - sooooooooooo, this is what you get. You also end up with the bench kids coming in and playing like spazzes when they do get in. Which just creates a vicious cycle. Every moment means too much to them. That's why a BJ, or Buss come in to a game last year and fire up shots like their lives depend upon it - because they know it's either light **** up or see the bench again for another month during somewhat meaningful minutes. I think to a certain extent, you lose the ability to coach them. Maybe it doesn't matter, but I'm not 100% convinced it doesn't either. As an extension of that, I think when people say Rak didn't have this in him offensively in year's past - this is sort of the reason why. You put far too much pressure upon yourself in limited touches to really accomplish much of anything. As you settle in, you get comfortable, you become a student. You're no longer the equivalent of the fat kid playing in Junior High because of a no-cut rule who shoots his two-hand push shot from three every time because he knows once he hits 9th grade he'll never step foot on a court again. All hypothetical - I really have no true insight into whether any of that is legit. Just throwing it out there. [/QUOTE]

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