For UTEP women's basketball coach Keitha Adams, there's never a bigger picture than the next game, the next chance to get better.
And for the young, growing Miners that comes Thursday at the end of a 1,600-mile road trip at Florida International.
There are, however, some subplots to this two-game swing to the Miami area that includes Saturday's game at Florida Atlantic. In a season where every win is valuable for UTEP, they are playing two teams below them in the Conference USA standings.
Mid-January is too early to start a standings watch, but these games count as much as any other and in terms of making the C-USA tournament.