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[QUOTE="cuseincincy, post: 653055, member: 331"]
I agree about the practice game thing.  I coached youth for many years and there were just soem kids that were playmakers on game day.  They worked as haerd as anybody in practice but didn't stand out.  On game day they had the knack of being in the right spot or making just the right cut or a habit of bouncing off people.  Some of it could be familiarity.  Lets face it, in practice there are few surprises.  Your teamates know your tendancies and frequently can sniff a play out.  For some kids the difference is motivation of the coaches.  In practice coaches tend to be more critical, while on game day its more of an us angainst them mentality and they motivate differently.  My son was a great example of that.  If you got in his face in practice he would almost shut down, didn't deal with criticism in front of his teamates well.  On game day if you got in his face and told him to go knock somebodys head off he would growl and hop up and down and then go do it.  FYI, none of this was from me.  On our teams the coaches agreed to try not to "coach" or "motivate" our own kids.
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