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Practice design

3-on-3 Closeouts and Rotations - Small-Sided Game Ideas

Neil Houghton is one of our most active Transforming members based in Melbourne, Australia. As part of one of our membership challenges, Neil shared some great ideas for coaches to use 3-on-3 in their practices.

Neil Houghton
Jan 19, 20261 min read
Player development

Why Coaches Need to Understand Self-Determination Theory

Developed by psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan in the 1980s, Self-Determination Theory (SDT) explains how human motivation operates on a spectrum. Rather than simply being “motivated” or “unmotivated,” SDT focuses on the quality of motivation.

George Vaz
Jan 5, 20264 min read
Practice design

Small-Sided Games Basketball: Ideas for Your Practices

What Are Small-Sided Games in Basketball? Are you new to the Transforming Basketball approach? In this blog, we give you some unique ideas for different small-sided games that you can use in your practices.

Alex Sarama
Dec 29, 20251 min read
Team offense

Zone Offense Basketball: Small-Sided Games to Teach It

What Are Small-Sided Games for Zone Offense Basketball? For the format of this blog, I have split small-sided game ideas into four categories (dribbling, passing, spacing and moving), with sub principles of play within each activity.

Neil Houghton
Dec 15, 20253 min read
Skill acquisition

Ecological Dynamics: The Core Principles Behind The CLA

In the world of sports coaching and skill acquisition, Ecological Dynamics has emerged as a powerful framework for understanding how athletes learn, adapt their movements, and perform on the court.

George Vaz
Dec 8, 20253 min read
Team offense

Coaching the Dribble Hand-Off in Basketball With the CLA

The dribble hand-off is one example of a trigger you can use within your conceptual offense. One of the challenges in our membership community was centered around how you would implement this trigger through a constraints-led approach.

George Vaz
Nov 24, 20251 min read
Practice design

How to Plan Your Youth Basketball Practices

In this blog, we touch on all the considerations coaches should take into account when creating a practice plan. It is important to write and save each practice plan.

George Vaz
Nov 17, 20254 min read
Player development

How to Deal with Intense Ball Pressure

On a recent member post (thanks to Brian Loomis), it got us thinking about a problem a lot of us have come up against at different points in our career……

George Vaz
Nov 10, 20252 min read
Team offense

Common Triggers for a Conceptual Offense

Firstly, what is a trigger? A trigger is an offensive action that will ‘trigger’ or cause the first domino to fall - creating an advantage.

George Vaz
Nov 3, 20253 min read
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