Explore practical ideas to design better practices, develop adaptable players, and help your team play better basketball.
Why I Wrote This Series This series aims to integrate the idea of Human Development into the fabric of organizations by design. Most organizations invest heavily in scouting, analytics, marketing, and technology.
Path dependency is one of the biggest reasons basketball coaches continue using outdated drills, traditional practice structures, and methods that fail to transfer to game day.
Basketball Analytics isn't just for the NBA; as a high school math teacher, it is the bridge between my classroom and the hardwood.
The video below shows the positive intention of a team to work on playing off two feet, but here’s why a basketball drill like this completely fails to transfer like coaches think it does… https://x.
How to Avoid Reverting to Traditional Coaching Habits? A really interesting question was posed by one of our members inside the Transforming Community regarding how to avoid slipping into traditional coaching habits.
What Does This Mean? The landscape of basketball coaching is shifting. It is moving towards a dynamic, player-centered approach that prioritizes decision-making and adaptability.
Administration, parents and sociocultural expectations all have an influential role on how we end up coaching our players each and every day. Having different philosophical beliefs around pedagogy can constrain your impact and downright confuse the players.
Back in my youth basketball days, my coach used to yell, "Only one stat matters: who scored the most points!" That mindset—focused purely on raw output—ignored the deeper layers of what drives success on the court.
One of the questions we receive most frequently at Transforming is "how would you introduce these ideas to other coaches in the program or across a whole club?"
What Is an Ecological Approach in Basketball? The Swedish Basketball Federation are one of the first basketball federations in the world to adopt an ecological approach in their coaching and player development frameworks.
We are delighted to announce that Transforming Basketball's founder, Alex Sarama, will be joining Kenny Atkinson's staff in Cleveland as Director of Player Development.
One of the biggest misconceptions of the CLA is that coaches cannot use feedback. Feedback is vitally important, but critically, through the CLA feedback is viewed as one form of task constraint.
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