The Importance of Constraint to Constrain

If there's something that we want our players to focus on or use some sort of skill, we want them to attempt to develop. One of the best ways to do that is to constrain the game to encourage it. It doesn't mean they're going to do it, but it does mean if they do it, it's going to be within the context of a realistic game. And so I was doing this the other day in my basketball practice. We just incentivized backdoor cuts. If you had a backdoor cut and you get a bucket off that backdoor cut, it was like plus two, right? So now all of a sudden, it was the most valuable shot in the game