Isolation maturation: how Jayson Tatum’s iso game highlights his unselfishness

Personal improvement is such a bizarre thing. It’s almost like aging. It happens so gradually that the results never feel tangible — until you look back at where you were a few years ago. Professional improvement is much the same. It’s a rare skill indeed where once something clicks, you go from amateur to journeyman, or journeyman to pro. Skill level is a spectrum and even all but one of the world’s masters looks up to another.

Improvement is less like putting together a puzzle one piece at a time, and more like putting together several puzzles simultaneously with the final objective being to combine them into a collage at the end. Improvement and development are not linear. Instead,…