The first time I heard "You Can't Fake the Harvest" was up in Aberdeen, SD at a Don Meyer Basketball Camp. I love everything about this saying. Harvest means the time of year when crops are ripe and ready to be gathered. In basketball, you put in work all summer and fall for one primary reason: to "grow your game" so to speak. We are roughly one month out from tryouts and the new season, also known as "harvest time". This is the one thing you can't fake. What you reap is what