Occasionally, I'll share Lemov's information and its basketball relevance.
1. Technique 4: Format Matters
Proper speech and grammar matter in college and job interviews. That doesn't mean that slang and colloquial speech have no role in society. But if we accept "her and me are coming to tryouts", we disadvantage our students. "Do it right. Do it now."
2. Process to correct.
Identify the error. Give the student a chance to find the answer.
Correct the error. When they cannot spontaneously correct the mistake, teach them.
3. Fundamentals matter.
4. Use these techniques daily at practice.
A player commits an error during a drill or skill performance requiring correction, such as:
- setting an illegal screen
- failing to cut
- failing to set up a cut
- failing to wait for a screen
- failing to block out
- forcing a shot
- rolling the wrong way on a screen
- coming off a screen without full downhill intent
- coasting ("don't cheat the drill")
"Do you know what you did wrong?" "Show us how to do it right."
5. Make it universal.
Remind student-athletes that fundamentals apply to everyone. "I'm not picking on Susie. We all need to take better shots. "It's not your shot, it's our shot.""
