Ep 2020 Are Your Players Listening for You or Reading the Floor?

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If the play breaks down and five heads turn to the bench, that is not a basketball problem. That is a coaching habit. This episode is about moving from the sage on the stage to the guide on the side, and building players who can think when the gym gets loud.

What we cover:

Handing players real decisions, and why ownership is a muscle that has to be loaded

Trading instructions for questions, because a rented answer disappears under pressure

Killing excuses by killing your own first, starting with the refs and the schedule

Levels, standards, and borrowing what video games understand about motivation

Why autonomy without warmth reads as checking out, and why they take hard from someone who cares

This week's challenge: at one practice, tally every instruction you give against every question you ask. Then move ten of them over.

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

Recorded at the Fifth Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin.
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