Ep 2025 Should You Be Teaching Fundamentals or Running Your Offense?

Fundamentals vs. Game Tactics

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Should You Be Teaching Fundamentals or Running Your Offense?

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Every practice plan is a trade between the two, and most coaches get the ratio wrong without ever noticing.

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There are only so many minutes in a practice, and every one you spend on footwork is a minute you did not spend on your offense. Coach Collins works through how to think about that trade honestly, why the answer changes with the age group and the time of year, and how to tell from watching a game which side of the ledger your team is short on.

What we cover:

Why the fundamentals versus tactics question is really a question about minutes

How the right ratio shifts from youth to high school, and from October to February

The tell in a game that says your problem is skill, not scheme

Teaching fundamentals inside your offense instead of as a separate block

What happens to a team that only ever runs plays

This week's challenge: Add up the minutes in your last practice plan and find out what your actual split was, not what you thought it was.

Resources: Practice plans, drills, courses, and on court clinics at https://teachhoops.com/

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