You cannot coach flair but you can coach patience, and the dashing Silver Ferns midcourter has been adopting a more circumspect approach to fit in with the team's game plan.
Coach Robyn Broughton wants her side to stay patient and treasure possession, no matter who the team is playing.
"Robbie is always saying 'You can't be flash all the time. You have to pick and choose your moments'," Barrett-Chase said.
"But she encourages us to be creative and use our instinct. But I just have to have little moments rather than all the time."
The Steel missed a golden opportunity to beat the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic last week with some frantic play in the last five minutes.
But the team has a chance to redeem itself against the Central Pulse at the Edgar Centre tonight.
Towering shooter Daneka Wipiiti (1.94m) returns from a knee injury to bolster the home side's prospects.
She replaces the 1.74m Julianna Naoupu, who filled in admirably.
Wipiiti's extra height in the circle presents Barrett-Chase with another passing opportunity, but the temptation to lob the ball in has its drawbacks.
And adjusting from a smaller shooter to a taller player is also a challenge.
"With Julianna I know I have to work the ball to the circle before passing it to her," she said.
"But with Daneka, as soon as I turn anywhere on the court, my first instinct is to look for her. If she is not on, I look for other options."
The plan, though, is to keep the passing short.
"We want to keep it short because we don't want `Pole' [Katrina Grant] to get a few tips or intercepts and bring their team into the match."
Grant and English defender Ama Agbeze form a very useful defensive duo, and with Silver Ferns back-up shooter Paula Griffin and promising centre Camilla Lees also in the squad, the Pulse is more than capable of upsetting the Steel.
"They are a team that, if they get a sniff, they will stay with you the whole time."
Keeping the passing short worked for "58 minutes" against the Magic, Barrett-Chase said.
She had a torrid battle with wing defence Peta Scholtz.
The pair stood out in a tight encounter and, to the Steel's credit, players like Barrett-Chase and Wendy Frew did a superb job of keeping the competition's leading defender, Casey Williams, quiet for three quarters.
The classy goal keep came to life in the final 15min, snatching some telling intercepts to help seal the win.
Despite losing, Barrett-Chase said the Steel was pleased with its performance.
It was a step up from the match against the Fever and provided a platform to build on for tonight.
Letting the Magic back into the match after establishing a healthy lead was not an experience the side wanted to repeat.
"When we get a lead we need to punish teams, instead of letting them come back and geta sniff of victory.
The Pulse never give up, so we have to put them away early," she said.
"They've got key players in each third. They've got a great team. They just don't cherish the ball. They get intercepts, they get turnovers then they get it down the attack end and something just does not go right."
