They don’t get playing time. The don’t usually even take their warm ups off. No one knows who they are. You see them jump up on the bench when the star players do something good. As a viewer, their enthusiasm can even seem silly…it’s not like they’re contributing to the success.
Or are they?
Great teams get sharpened by playing other great teams…but in reality great teams are only as good as the competition they play against ever single day…ie. The bench players.
We might not care a lot about the bench players, but the star players do. And they know how great the bench players are.
Every great bench player knows they could go play for a different team and probably get more playing time. But they’d rather be an intregal part of a better team.
