How badly do you want it - when?

The basketball season runs a long time and the players deserve a break. But they will be back after it before things have gone very far. And I suspect that the off-season is when skills development largely takes place. No doubt the coaches tell the players what they need to work on during the off-season; but how hard do they work at it? They all play basketball because they enjoy it, and when the coaches are not around they can play purely for fun, but if they do not display the discipline to work hard on their games between the end of school and the time the coaches get involved again, they are not going to take that big step forward that so often makes the difference between a winning team and one that isn't.