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A while ago I had a really good conversation with another coach here in Germany. I re-posted a particularly ‘shifty’ dribble move on Instagram, and he wanted to know how I would ‘teach’ that using the CLA.
Firstly, if your unsure of what a conceptual offense is, I recommend starting with the video below... https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=kxquqVe4EcU&t=247s Then for a deeper dive, this clinic is a great resource.
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?"
This is a bit of a ‘catch 22’ scenario! While we make use of BRADs extensively at Transforming (original credit to Sefu Bernard), we don’t believe in having a list of external cues that are uniformal to every player.
Defense is arguably the biggest thing missing within the player development and skills training world. If watching a work-out or scrolling through social media, it is rare to find a work-out where defense is emphasised.
We often get asked about our most frequented task constraints. This is a difficult question, because we don’t really have many. This is because everything we do is in response to what is happening with our players.
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.
Since starting Transforming Basketball, a question we’ve received frequently is how to use the CLA with large numbers. This could be for youth camps, tryouts, or simply high practice turnouts.
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.
"Learning is characterised by a search for functional performance solutions, where the learner is challenged beyond mere repetition and imitation of a putative classic action" - Nonlinear Pedagogy in Skill Acquisition by Chow et al.
The Spurs famously coined the term “vitamins” many years ago. This now refers to the delivery of short sessions of on-court player development.
We frequently get asked about why we refrain from using 1-on-0 drills at Transforming Basketball, and more specifically, why we are so against how it is commonly used.
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