The idea that a player doesn't produce because they are bored is a rationalization. Now this might have some validity if the team you are on is undefeated and is constantly blowing out the opposition, but then that itself reflects a "Catch 22" scenario that is unlikely to happen. Perhaps on a non competitive high school level team, but not at a top level D1 program. That sort of lack of effort does happen when a person is not challenged by competition. Sting a few of those years together and it develops a bad habit. You just do not reverse that sort of " bad habit " pattern over night. If you don't constantly challenge yourself to get better you regress. Shoni Shimmel is the poster girl for that in respect to unfulfilled potential. Probably the best career choice for DD would have been to go to Uconn. But her choice and the reason for that choice pretty much explains why she has not fulfilled her potential as of yet.
Potential requires a foundation structure built on discipline. When the challenge is not external it has to come from within. What you compete against is not other teams or players but your own unfulfilled potential.
