Why does Russell Westbrook choose to drive when Steph Curry chooses to shoot a three on identical plays? Different affordances, they see different opportunities to act based on their own abilities, intentions and the characteristics of the environment as well as how they perceive those characteristics within that environment.I'm a 5'11 white guy with maybe a 6 ft wingspan, if me and Lebron James both drive into two defenders there will be different results based on our individual affordances. Lebron is bigger, stronger, faster and obviously overall more skilled than I am. When he drives into two defenders he may see that as an opportunity to lay the ball up or even dunk on both of them, whereas when I drive into two defenders I see that as an opportunity to pass the ball out. This is based on the fact that Lebron is 6'8 and has a 40 in vertical, so he can easily get higher and lay the ball up but I can't do that so I don't see it as an opportunity to lay the ball upThis is extremely important when training our athletes, if an athlete is pass first and wants to get better at scoring the ball, then we need to manipulate the training environment so this athlete can start to see scoring as the opportunity to act. How do we do that? Use constraints, create small-sided games to isolate specific skills and actions we want to improveRecognize your athletes affordances and take them into account every session

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