What changes have you seen in your coaching and with your team since using these ideas?
Number one is keeping practice fun. Within the small-sided games players are allowed to explore their own solutions which as a coach you will hope can carry over to their game play. I have found that many players today lack the ability to respond appropriately to in-game situations especially under pressure and when you give them the "answer" another one always pops up. In giving the players on the team possible solutions and putting more ownership on them to understand what the best solution for a given situation is, they have been starting to work together more on how to solve a problem instead of always asking what should I do or I did what you said and it didn't work. Giving all of them opportunities to progress as play makers and overall players.
Where are you from and where do you coach?
I’m from Brooklyn, NY, where I’m the Head Coach of the Collegiate School for Boys in Manhattan.
What Transforming events or products have helped you the most?
How did you discover Transforming?
I've been following Alex for a while, even before he was with Basketball Immersion when he was doing Jr. NBA clinics. I even think we connected on LinkedIn back in 2012! I was a fan of some of the games he was doing for practice so I kept up with him through social media, which eventually became Transforming.
The Transforming Camp for me was the most influential part of this movement so far. To know that other coaches are out there with this same philosophy and passion on how the game can be taught and played was very energizing and exciting for me about the future of the game.
