Making Your Teammates Better

August 5, 2007

Over the last few years this term about making your teammates better has been coming out of NBA commentators mouths and now it is even spreading to fans. Any time I visit a basketball site I hear someone saying this guy or that guy does or doesn’t make their teammates better. When I read that crap I just want to say shut up, you cannot make your teammates better. The only thing one player can do for a teammate is get them better shots.

People talk about how Steve Nash makes everyone on his team better. All of theose guys could shoot, defend, jump, run plays, etc. before Nash got there, the only thing Nash has done for those players is got them the ball in better scoring positions.

To me making your teammates better would imply that all of a sudden you make a player better shooter, better free throw shooter, better three point shooter, better defender, faster, higher jumper, etc. The only people that can make a player better is himself by having heart, confidence and working on their game.