The first week of the new school year

For the next two days Jason directed the training for all of the new members of the basketball team as he had both the varsity and junior varsity team focus on running defensive focused drills.

Their first scrimmage game against another school was this Saturday. Jason thought about it and decided that even if they were to practice running plays the amount of time that they had wasn't enough for them to learn them completely.

So instead of wasting their time trying to cram multiple plays into their heads it would be more effective to work on their individual defensive abilities.

Defensive fundamentals were easier to pick up in the short term compared to memorizing plays. And with a good defense it was still possible to win games even if your offense was subpar.

But just because Jason was choosing to make a sacrifice in one aspect of practice didn't mean that he would make things easy.