Coaches often praise players who “let the game come to them.”
What they talk about a whole lot less are the players who sometimes need a nudge to remember there’s a huge difference between unselfishly not forcing the issue and becoming so passive you aren’t helping the team.
For the UNM men’s basketball team, maybe the best example of this was Tony Snell. The 6-foot-7 wing was a three-year Lobo who never led the team in scoring, never made all-conference first team. Yet he left school early, was a first-round NBA Draft pick, is in his ninth year playing at the sport’s highest level and is third in program history in career earnings for basketball.