Doug Lemov and his colleagues have devoted their career to growing teaching skills with works like Teach Like a Champion and Practice Perfect. Share some concepts from the former with your players.
For example, he discusses how one teacher (see John Wooden on tying shoes) reviews distributing papers on the first day. By reducing this 'transition time', the teacher frees up more hours for teaching. Having a rigid practice schedule without wasting time between evolutions makes practice run at a higher tempo, achieving more repetitions.
Right is right. When we accept an action that is incorrect or partially correct, we encourage poor technique. Coming off a screen demands WAITING, setting up the cut, and exploding out of the cut (change of pace and direction). Building proper habits must apply full time.
Minimize transaction costs. Teach and correct in 'sound bytes'. Players don't need long-winded soliloquys. "The ball is gold." "Value the ball." "Share the ball with our team."
The How and the Why. "POST IT -- If the objective is so important, then you should post it."
For example, core defensive philosophy might include - ball pressure, deny the paint, help and recover, challenge all shots without fouling, and defensive rebound. Sum it up as "one bad shot" or "hard 2s". They need to know the emphasis and priority, the techniques we want, and be able to hear feedback and make corrections. Writing it down makes it real.
Name the steps. If you have a post defense method, you might say "position battle", "foot fight" and "hand war." Kevin Eastman uses a real estate analogy - homeowner (in the paint), renter (low post), and homeless (outside the post area).
We decide how hard we work, how much we share, and ultimately how much value we add to players. Mastery starts with commitment to better teaching.
