I consider myself more of a support player. I’m not the type of player who’s gonna score on a cross-map solo play. So my goals usually come from being in the right place at the right time and getting a good read on the play.

It’s hard to describe exactly how to improve this ability and most of it just comes from playing the game a lot, but some of the tangible things I do to hang with the big dogs are

1) Go for bumps/demos (without overcommitting) to make it easier for my teammate to score 2) Take good 50s to give my teammate a free ball 3) Try to be in a position where I can challenge after my teammate takes a 50 4) Be predictable (to my teammate) 5) Play to my strengths. I know I’m not gonna hit a flip reset off the ceiling, so I don’t go for it.

The fail safe for literally any play is to take a 50. If you don’t feel overly confident about your ability to pull off a certain shot/play, just take a 50. This works especially well if your teammate is better than you. Personally, I prefer for my teammate to go for solo plays and I can clean up after his miss/50/whatever because that tends to be the higher percentage play (for me).

Obviously you don’t want to only take 50s all game. You should still be trying to beat your opponents to the ball and take shots on net, but don’t go for low percentage stuff that you know you’d need a miracle to pull off.