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For professional teams, consider the concept of “MAYA” (most advanced yet acceptable). This could include players being tasked with movements such as 10 lunges or 10 squats, but making every single movement different.

If players have been working on enhancing their action capabilities in athletic performance, the activities in this workout may allow players to make use of any improvements through affordances to both finish and defend above the rim in this 2-on-1. Players play 2-on-1 off the get with a one pass maximum (if needed), while being constrained to only scoring a gold medal. Note how feedback is used within the CLA, with Alex giving the cue of ‘catching as big and wide as possible’ to create greater advantages when the defense goes over or under.

If players are overtly constrained to always running the set play, skilful behaviours such as the one found in this video may not emerge! Coaches must consider this when introducing set plays with their team.

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This type of offense must be highly intentional as opposed to randomly ‘moving the ball’ or running passive scoring actions, such as dribble hand-offs where players do not look to score or twist.

This is a highly recommended resource to make better sense of how the theoretical concepts are applied in practice.

While player testimonies are not the most reliable sources (e.g. many players often talk about how they move and perform particular skills in a manner which does not align with how they actually move in the game), nonetheless, this is an interesting video. Cruyff provides an introduction into the limitations behind teaching moves in basketball. When supplemented with an understanding of ecological dynamics, this accounts for the emergence of the ‘Cruyff turn’ and why Cruyff never had to practice or rehearse it in order for it to be expressed within the game.

The potential for using guided is unlimited as it can be applied to any element of the game.

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Bursts can be effectively applied to shooting activities to create high amounts of repetition without repetition

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This is useful to see how SSGs are just as applicable in the folder of athletic performance.

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Shawn builds on some of the concepts that he and Tyler wrote about within the ‘Vision of the Future’ Chapter.

Jon and Alex avoided working in siloes by closing aligning their delivery. What was covered in the mindfulness activity was subject to the specific affordances the players may encounter in that game based on the team’s principles of play and opponent’s scout.