The new book from Alex Sarama · Coming summer 2027
Transcending Basketball
Moving Beyond Fundamentals to Develop Skilled, Adaptive Players
The follow-up to Transforming Basketball, published by Wiley. Join the waitlist and we'll email you news about the book before it comes out.
Transcending Basketball
Alex Sarama
tran•scend
verb
to rise above or go beyond the limits of
What's inside
- 01Why We Can't Copy and Paste: Forms of Life Within Basketball
- 02Rethinking Shooting: Why It's Not About “Optimal” Mechanics
- 03The Myth of Fundamentals: Embracing Functionality to Develop Skilled Players
- 04Where Knowing Is Not Doing: “Knowledge About” and “Knowledge Of”
- 05Providing Effective Feedback: Knowing What to Look For and How to Say It
- 06Culture, Values, and Belonging: Planting the Seed for Evidence-Based Ideas to Flourish
- 07Department of Methodology: Creating Circles, Not Silos
- 08Pseudoscience: Common Beliefs Unsupported by Research
- 09Common Misunderstandings of a Constraints-Led Approach
From the book
“Within an ecological dynamics rationale, there is no such thing as a fundamental skill.”
“Experience without a solid theoretical rationale is nothing more than experience.”
“Just because a coach says it, it does not necessarily prepare the players to do it effectively!”
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Alex Sarama is head coach of the WNBA's Portland Fire and founder of Transforming Basketball. Transcending Basketball comes out in summer 2027.