Physically, Jordy is a study in what hard, focused strength and agility work on one's own can do for an athlete. Many, perhaps even most, athletically-gifted players are so used to naturally being better at their sport(s) that they are fairly complacent when it comes to putting in extra work with specific physical goals in mind. They may not even realize how much stronger, faster, more agile and high-leaping they could get with just a little more focused effort. Many big-time natural athletes simply think they don't need to do all that.
But Jordan Horston, at her young age, has already figured that part out and has improved her body's abilities tremendously in just two years. She is physically impressive.
But mentally, the kid still has a way to go. Despite her awareness of it, and the oft-mentioned updates that it is something she's working on, she still sometimes gets down on herself after mistakes, and that affects her performance. Horston appears to be a super-sensitive, empathetic soul, and so I imagine it would be difficult for someone like that to overcome a natural propensity toward thinking too much and being upset if she feels she's letting others down.
It is what it is, but I hope in the next couple of years she can learn better ways to cope during games than getting down on herself. She'll not spend a heckuva lot of time on anybody's bench if she can work that out and have her mental game catch up to the physical.
Love me some Horston! Such a sweet kid.
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