Understanding your skill set is a skill. Your skill set is what sets you apart from the next athlete. The key to being a great player is the ability to understand your coach, your teammates and yourself. When I was a student athlete at LSU we ran motion offense, and it took me about 2 years to run it efficiently and learn the aspects of the offense while understanding my teammates the shots they wanted, and the shots I could take within the offense. It was not until that understanding of the motion offense that I began to transform as a player. There are many attributes about athletes that coaches, and recruiters do not recognize enough. The ability to understand your skill set is pivotal to developing as a collegiate athlete. I used to tell my players the game is not the time to play rush and roulette, in the game perform in your skill set do not go outside of that, the summer is the time to develop new skill or improve on your skill. When you understand your skill set you: limit turnovers, take better shots, make the better pass, or the extra pass, your coaches trust you to be in the game when it is down to the wire. There are some programs you can distinctly notice the difference in the players they recruit, and their ability to understand their skill set and not go outside of it. Understanding your skill set is one of the skills that is not talked about enough, but it can be a key ingredient to getting the scholarship you want. When you play in your next game or go to your next event: THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN DO AND WORK ON WHAT YOU CANNOT DO.
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