These five pointers can help any team, regardless of level, apply simple lessons from the NBA for increased success. Note: This is a repost with permission from Radius Athletics XTRA I am often asked whether specific X’s and O’s from the NBA are applicable to lower levels of play. The rules and the skill level…
Extreme Makeover: Basketball Coaching Edition
Extreme Makeover: Basketball Coaching Edition – Some question to consider when it’s time to give your coaching style a makeover. I am a sucker for before and after pictures. We have all seen the weight loss versions when someone who loses a significant amount of weight posts a picture of their old, overweight self next to the…
Early Offense Ideas: Transition Drag Screens
TransitionOffenseTips – Three early offense offense ideas for effective drag screens to create immediate advantages in the half court. If we breakdown offense into two phases – transition offense and half court offense – the goal is to blend those two phases together. One ends where the other begins and there is no seam between…
The Planning Fallacy And How It Relates To Coaching
The Planning Fallacy explains why human beings, including basketball coaches, are terrible at estimating how long something will take. In my work counseling coaches, my clients often ask how long I think it will take their teams to learn an offense, defense or engrain some fundamental habit. There is no way I can accurately answer…
Develop Your Coaching Superpowers: Cueing
Superpowers such as delivering effective cues to players will help you level up in the coaching game. Develop your powers for big results. Note: This post is the fourth entry in a series on the “superpowers” coaches can add to level up in the coaching profession. The series originally appeared on Radius Athletics XTRA and…
Video Playbook: Stanford Cardinal
The #2 ranked Stanford Cardinal, powered by their version of the Princeton Offense, look to reclaim Pac-12 and national supremacy. As college basketball resumes, storylines abound in Palo Alto. First, Stanford Head Coach Tara VanDerveer needs just four wins to surpass the career win total of the legendary Pat Summitt. Assuming COVID-19 does not intervene,…
Dribble Handoff Counters
Four ways to counter your opponents’ attempts to disrupt the dribble handoff. Note: This article is reposted with permission from Radius Athletics XTRA – an in-depth basketball newsletter that sends basketball content straight to you inbox. There are but two ways to circulate the ball among offensive players in the sport of basketball — you…
Mental Biases and Coaching: Defeating Choice-Supportive Bias
Coaches: Is Choice-Supportive Bias plaguing your ability to make good decisions and move on from bad ones? Here’s how to spot and defeat it. Read more on Cognitive Biases and how they relate to coaching: Action Bias Pitfalls The Impact of Optimism Bias Avoiding Outcome Bias The Perils of Confirmation Bias Survivorship Bias in Coaching As…
Five Possessions: Tyler Herro Back Action
#FivePossessions – Five curated possessions featuring Tyler Herro of the Miami Heat demonstrating “Back Action” from his days as a Kentucky Wildcat As the NBA season draws near, Miami Heat rookie guard Tyler Herro is making waves in preseason action. His scoring ability at all three levels is pulling him closer to a starting role with…
Five Possessions: Villanova Fundamental Skills
#FivePossessions – Five curated possessions from the Villanova Wildcats where they demonstrate their exquisite brand of fundamental soundness. Powered by immaculate spacing, sweet shooting, a lethal drive-and-kick game and exquisite fundamentals, the Villanova Wildcats have captured two recent NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championships. A slightly different cast of characters won each of those two titles,…