Basketball: Getting Over the Hump

Teams struggle to move from mediocrity to more. Simplify a 'checklist' of musts. 

Lump these into smaller groups:

1) Win the "Four Factors" - EFG%, turnovers, rebounds, free throws 

(SPCA - shooting, protecting the ball, crashing, attacking the rim)

2) Stop giving games away with bad decisions, bad shots, turnovers, and fouls

3) Be in great condition to win at the end with toughness, defense, rebounding, and smart play

Watch losing teams and see how they lose: 

• Lack of coherent plans on both defense and offense
• Don't contain the ball or stop transition
• Bad offensive possessions 
• Bad shooters take bad shots 
• Lack of physical and mental toughness

Be solution focused:

- Have a mentor to assist with critiques (Everyone needs a coach.). Great coaches are unafraid of improvement. 

- Show video examples of what you want to see. 

- Share shot charts with individual players. Everyone needs to know what is a good shot for them. A player was 1 for 19 from three on the season and passed up a three. Her father yelled at her. We shared the stats with him. 

- Reward desired performance. "The best defender starts."

- Build skill. Increase the percent of practice devoted to fundamentals. 

Lagniappe. Redeem yourself. 

This is an amazing outlook on life

Special stuff

"If you want to be successful, you need to be bad, then you need to be good. Then when you're good, you need to fail. Then when you fail, you're going to figure it out”

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— Hoop Herald (@TheHoopHerald) October 28, 2024

Lagniappe. Vary your shooting practice. 

How to Set Up Your Drills to Shoot Better in Games

One way to replicate accessing long-term memory like you would in a game is to vary the skill on each repetition.

For example, if I’m working on some shooting from the wing. I might practice a sequence like this.

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— Joe Haefner | Breakthrough Basketball (@BreakthruBball) October 26, 2024