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…
Tips On Maximizing Your COVID Season For Coaches & Programs
A list of helpful tips on navigating yourself and your program through this unusual COVID season from Radius Athletics and Tony Miller. Nothing gets us pumped up like seeing dedicated and passionate coaches talk about teaching the game of basketball and getting better at what they do. Even better when the discussion involves two individuals…
Defense Debate: Which Way Do You Force Opponents?
Last Sunday we asked a simple question on Twitter, and the coaching community turned up to debate forcing Middle vs Baseline on defense. As people tend to do at the start of a new year, we have been reflecting lately. We feel fortunate to have such a passionate base of coaches that are more than…
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…
December To Get Better: Virtual Coaching Clinic – Winter 2020
We partnered with Coaches Clinic for a virtual clinic for basketball coaches this December 27-29. We have a special software discount, too! Let’s start with a positive: 2020 is almost over. We know many high school seasons are on a hiatus until 2021, so with that in mind, what better to do this final month…
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,…
Takeaways from the Ted Lasso School of Coaching
The fictional character provides a lot of laughs, but Ted Lasso provides some real lessons in his leadership style and coaching philosophies. We often do video breakdowns here on the FMS blog, but this post takes “studying film” to a whole new level. One of the most positively-reviewed shows of 2020 is Ted Lasso, which…
Top Plays of the 2020 NBA Playoffs
Simple sets from the Lakers, Clippers, Jazz and Heat you can add to your FastDraw playbook. No matter what level you coach, hopefully you were following the NBA playoffs closely, as there is always something to learn from the highest level of basketball. Team FastModel was tuned into the NBA Playoffs and sketching sets in…
5 Ways That You Can Always be Improving as a Basketball Coach
As basketball coaches, we are very quick to challenge our players to get in the gym, lift weights, play more, watch film, etc., which is a part of the job. What we don’t always do a great job with, though, is making sure that we are following our own advice and continuing to improve ourselves. …
Four WNBA Plays To Run With Your Team
Let’s honor the 2019 WNBA season and its first-class talent by rolling that same energy into your 2019-2020 hoops season. This year, ladies across the league showed us that representation matters. Through unmatched leadership and outstanding gameplay on the court, to using their voice and individuality to raise awareness around the game’s most sensitive topics…