A message to the team during this first week of Individual Skill Development was to "string skills together." One of the biggest difficulties in teaching is getting the players (students) to understand how the immediate work relates to the performance in the future. Just as students ask in a geometry class, "Why do I need to do this?" I believe they think the same things during our Individuals at times, they don't understand why there is such a huge emphasis on so many separate "little things".
We discussed how a rope is made up of thousand of tiny strings. Each string represents a skill that we are working on. Jump stops, pivots, change of speed, ballhandling, high follow-through, etc. are all small strings that will lead to a strong rope.
Later in the week, we stressed that it's not enough just to be able to performa a skill, that skill needs to tie together with another skill (a pass leading to a shot, a catch leading to a shot.)
We want to strengthen the rope daily with our skill development.
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