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Basketball Coaching Courses
Choose a basketball coaching course around a development priority. Your players may need more effective shooting practice, clearer pick-and-roll coverage solutions or individual development plans connected to the team’s offense.
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The options below provide starting points for those topics. Use the existing product pages to check what each system includes.
Develop Shooters
The Shooting System is Transforming's shooting-focused course. The related shooting development guide introduces the relationship between shot selection, changing conditions and movement exploration.
Work on Pick-and-Roll Offense
The Pick and Roll Offense addresses this part of team offense. Use the pick-and-roll guide to begin with the ball-handler, screener, spacing and the defense's response.
Organize Player Development
The Player Development Blueprint is the player-development course. Start with the player development guide if you need to clarify how individual priorities connect with practice and team play.
Connect the Material to an On-Court Priority
Before starting, record one situation you want to improve. For example, your offense may struggle to create an advantage when a ball screen is switched.
As you study, identify a relevant activity and the constraints that emphasize the solution. Use it in practice, then observe whether players recognize when that solution is available against the defense.
Return to the material with those observations. A player who understands the solution but cannot use it may need a different starting position or less defensive pressure.
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Skill Acquisition Workshop
An online workshop on contemporary skill-acquisition principles for coaches.
The Shooting System
$499 USD
Take A Better Shooting Practice further with The Shooting System: a full course on constraints-based shooting, differential learning and competitive challenges.
The Pick and Roll Offense
$499 USD
For coaches who want to develop better decision-makers in pick-and-roll situations.
The Player Development Blueprint
$499 USD
For coaches who want a complete framework for developing more adaptable players.
Youth Conceptual Offense
$499 USD
For coaches who want a complete framework for building a conceptual offense.
Behind the methodology
About Alex Sarama
Alex Sarama is the founder of Transforming Basketball and Head Coach of the WNBA's Portland Fire, where he earned WNBA Coach of the Month honors in May 2026, the team's inaugural season. Previously, he served as Assistant Coach and Director of Player Development with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
His wider experience includes NBA Europe in Madrid, Paris Basketball in the EuroCup and the Rip City Remix, the Portland Trail Blazers' G League affiliate. Alex has delivered clinics in over 40 countries and has written three books on the constraints-led approach in basketball, including the Amazon bestselling Transforming Basketball (2024) and A Constraints-Led Approach to Coaching Basketball (2026).
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Transforming Basketball
The Amazon bestselling book on applying a constraints-led approach to basketball performance — the methodology behind this guide, in full.
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