the Steeply–Poutrincourt colloquy: the gestalt: does it come together into a game
It’s not just the strengths or the number of strengths. It’s do they come together to make a game. How complete is a kid. Has he got a game. [...] The term we use here for a complete game is either gestalt or complete game.
Context
The pedagogy's load-bearing concept. You can drown cataloguing a junior's individual strengths, but the real question is whether "they come together to make a game" — "how complete is a kid," whether the parts cohere into a gestalt. A player isn't a sum of shots; he's a whole or he isn't. E.T.A. builds toward the integration, not the inventory — the body only counts once its capacities lock into a single functioning game.