Speaker 1
And to me, the context would be individual constraints. Is there a defender who is physically either a lot bigger or a lot stronger, who's on your hip as you're approaching, and you're unsure that you going to have a clean lay up, it's probably going to be dirty. That, to me, is when i would come to two feet and then apply one of those protection plans, such as the back piver. If the defender is a lot smaller, or they're in a different position, it would not make sense to come to two feet. So again, context is king. And how do you develop that wold using all the small sihte games and concepts that we share, if ascal emotion. Ye,
Speaker 2
it's interesting. I've never tird kennedy a lay up. You know, i'm never tie my other dar presley lamp lekits, literally. I've showed them, and they've seen different possibilities, and they've seen different ways to do it. But younow kenni, for example, is a ten year old, can already do one hand scoop lay up, because we haven't restricted her. And to me, it's, again, like that. That's a demonstration of skill, clearly, but it's also more funli, i find that more often than not, she goes to more fun lay ups. And she, as, you know, again, she doesn't know an off foot lay up or, you know, you're a lay up. But she does snuff naturally because, again, it's just a part of kind of the fun of the movement and diffrent things that go with it. And are those some of your experiences of well, andrea, with some of these things being allowed to
Speaker 1
happen naturally. Ye, in fact, i find, as they somy prerls that go a great nine of great 12 theire way more, it's hard to break em out of the mould an what they were taught and just get them to be created. So i've had to give em some creative solution sometimes cause they just couldn't figure it out. Ili, t, have you ever thought of this? T, they laugh about it. I bes craze s wis it crazy? And a, you know, they'll try it out and tell actually, that works. I can use it here. And so they've been trying it a and and getting out of that box is really good. Well,
Speaker 2
that's the key to the decisions, more important than the scale, right? Are they shooting an open layup, and do we care how they're shooting it? Well, the decision to shoot the open lay up is really valuable. To shoot a contested lay up, to understand that's a bad decision is also valuable. So those things are certainly trump the actual execution of whatever lay up, in our opinion. Just one last thing on this topic, is this idea that yo and andrea you alluded to that just now, sometimes we teach something at a real young age to players as a must and then hinders their development for the future, because that must is the only thing they do. And i believe that we do that wayg too often at the youth level. And that was too important a comment that you made, andre, for us not to bring out a that we want to give possibilities and not must at young level, because we don't know ultimately, when they get to their maturation level what there musts are, right? And as alex alluded already, it's very variable for different players, isn't it? Ye,
Speaker 1
definitely. I look at some of the kids i have now. One of the girls that just graduated from us and went to mc gill, she came in as a five four point garden and left our school as a five 11 point guard, and didn't grow until she was in grade 11 a. So she learnt a whole bunch of different skills at the young age, which is now totally a helping her in her game rate now at five and but had we taught her just to do o kno, the regular in my own circle lay up one foot, and she never would have got that off at a young age.