Sometimes it's hard to be really committed to a sport. What I am trying to say is that when friends invite you to a party or to do something but you have to say no because you have a game or practice it gets harder to want to one so committed to basketball because you're still a kid and want to have fun with friends. But I hear it from a lot of college players that it was worth it to not go to all those parties with friends and it was worth it to spend time in the gym  because now instead of her wanting to be like her friends and going to parties they want to be her because she has a lot of things going for her and it was because she didn't go to those parties or to hang out with them that she got to where she is now because she was on the gym getting better.