Explore practical ideas to design better practices, develop adaptable players, and help your team play better basketball.
Neil Houghton is one of our most active Transforming members based in Melbourne, Australia. As part of one of our membership challenges, Neil shared some great ideas for coaches to use 3-on-3 in their practices.
A conceptual offense is one where players are playing with triggers and constantly reading the defense, looking to create and exploit advantages.
Developed by psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan in the 1980s, Self-Determination Theory (SDT) explains how human motivation operates on a spectrum. Rather than simply being “motivated” or “unmotivated,” SDT focuses on the quality of motivation.
What Are Small-Sided Games in Basketball? Are you new to the Transforming Basketball approach? In this blog, we give you some unique ideas for different small-sided games that you can use in your practices.
Are you struggling to see complete transfer from your small-sided games in practice to the real thing?
What Are Small-Sided Games for Zone Offense Basketball? For the format of this blog, I have split small-sided game ideas into four categories (dribbling, passing, spacing and moving), with sub principles of play within each activity.
In the world of sports coaching and skill acquisition, Ecological Dynamics has emerged as a powerful framework for understanding how athletes learn, adapt their movements, and perform on the court.
For a U10 team (7-9 year olds) of total novices, what are some effective principles of play? This is one of the most frequent questions we receive at Transforming Basketball!
The dribble hand-off is one example of a trigger you can use within your conceptual offense. One of the challenges in our membership community was centered around how you would implement this trigger through a constraints-led approach.
In this blog, we touch on all the considerations coaches should take into account when creating a practice plan. It is important to write and save each practice plan.
On a recent member post (thanks to Brian Loomis), it got us thinking about a problem a lot of us have come up against at different points in our career……
Firstly, what is a trigger? A trigger is an offensive action that will ‘trigger’ or cause the first domino to fall - creating an advantage.
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