One of the reasons players regress to playground ball is that that is what they practice. They practice sloppy, so they play sloppy. Even in warmups before games. My old music teacher had a proverb: "Practice does not make perfect; perfect practice makes perfect. If you are only practicing your mistakes, you are not getting better."
It seems to me that coaches would be wise to instill a culture in which the players always play the game the right way. Don't "jack up" shots when you are fooling around. Take sound shots when you are fooling around. Do it the right way - all the time, every time. Then you have a personal culture of good basketball instead of street ball.
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