The shots that made you good weren’t at the game. They were in the driveway after dinner, with nobody rebounding.

Visible performance is the last small percentage of a long private stretch. Everything that looks natural under pressure was made somewhere unremarkable, in the same motion repeated on an ordinary evening with no result attached. That part is invisible by nature, which is why people keep mistaking the outcome for talent.

Pick one skill you want and give it a small fixed slot that nobody knows about. Twenty minutes is plenty if it recurs. Judge it on whether you kept turning up rather than on how the sessions felt, since feeling good was never the thing driving it.