Explore practical ideas to design better practices, develop adaptable players, and help your team play better basketball.
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Start with how players actually learn, and why practice design is your greatest competitive advantage.
5-step routeTake Transforming principles and learn to design your own practices using our small-sided games and warm-up ideas
5-step routeBuild an offense around spacing, movement and player decisions.
5-step routeIf you were to ask the average person to draw a picture of a sports coach, they would likely sketch a stern figure equipped with a whistle, barking rigid instru
Use deception, tag games and live opponents to build basketball agility, perception and decision-making in your warm-up.
Walk into almost any open gym, driveway, or team practice around the world, and you will inevitably witness the same sequence: a player stands at the top of the key, bounces the ball to their defender, receives it back, and systematically squares up to attack.
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Why Basketball Coaching Needs an Evidence-Based Basketball Coaching Approach? Approaches within the basketball industry are predominantly based upon experiential knowledge and traditions. This is perhaps most notable within coaching.
Constraints-Led Approach for Basketball Beginners "I love your ideas but I'm not sure they can be applied in any given situation. I'm coaching a young team and most of them don't have the skills to implement your kind of drills.
In April 2023, Kareem Kalil and I ran a series of player clinics and coaching workshops in Beirut, Lebanon.
After graduating with my Bachelor's of Education degree in September 2022, I did what my parents and many others expected me to do: get a job.
What Is the Transforming Basketball Book? Earlier this week, we announced that my book 'Transforming Basketball: Changing How we Think About Basketball Performance' is coming out on April 9 on Amazon.
How the CLA Transcends Basketball By Adam De Groot The covid Pandemic was a difficult time for all of us, however, for many it provided an opportunity of a luxury that we don’t get a lot of: time.
Within the global basketball community, the need to provide a better youth sports experience for children is one of the reasons that Transforming Basketball exists.
I have a background in ecological psychology and have been conducting a variety of research at UConn’s renowned Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action.
Positionless basketball is nothing new, and has been spoken about as a concept for multiple years within the basketball world.
How Pass and Cut Motion Offense is Harming Youth Basketball? A post on the Transforming Basketball Instagram page went viral a few months’ ago speaking about the ineffectiveness of pass and cut motion offense.
Why NBA Combine Testing Uses the Wrong Framework How is it possible that current NBA combine testing methods may bias, rather than effectively inform, front office decision-makers?
What Is Deception in Basketball? Let’s start by considering what deception in basketball is. A 2022 paper by Ramsey et al. , forms the basis of this blog article.
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