Jake's Goals — Summer Into Fall
A working sheet, not a wish list. Each goal has a way to tell if it's actually happening — because a goal you can't measure is just a hope.
Finish lefty in traffic — in games, not just drills.
Why it matters: it's the one thing a scouting defender can still take away. Everything else opens up once he has two hands at the rim.
- How we'll know: a game where he finishes a contested left-hand layup and doesn't think twice about it.
- This week: left-hand Mikan to open every session; if the drive goes left, he finishes left — no bailing right.
Add the pause to his game.
- How we'll know: a defender bites on the hesitation and he blows by in a live game.
- This week: cone-attack-with-hesitation as a warmup; change-of-pace reps where the slow is genuinely slow.
Sharpen the triple-threat stance.
- How we'll know: he reads pass / shoot / drive before the defender's feet are set, not after.
- This week: catch, one read, then attack — five reps a session.
Lateral quickness on defense to match the offense.
- How we'll know: he stays in front of a quicker matchup for a full possession.
- This week: slide-and-recover between cones, reading hips not the ball.
The one that isn't a skill
Keep the attitude on the long, boring days.
- How we'll know: a 70-minute driveway session in the heat that ends with a good attitude.
- Nobody claps for this one. It's the habit underneath every other goal on the page.
Pick one target every time he trains, put a number on it, and chase it. Come back next time and try to beat it. The goals don't move — the evidence stacks up.
