A team improves when ordinary practice receives attention usually saved for competition.

Attention gathers around the occasion that is watched. Everyone brings their sharpest version to the game, and then treats the sessions in between as maintenance, which is exactly backwards, since the ability arrives from the unwatched repetitions. What a team does on an ordinary Tuesday is what it will have available on the day that counts.

Take one habit you reserve for competition and move it into a regular session. Full warm up, real focus, honest review afterward. Say out loud that the ordinary day is the thing being trained, because people give more when they know what is actually being built.