Why Isolated Drills Are Failing Your Players (Coach Nick & Dan Abrahams Explain)

Dan Abrahams and I get into something that drives me a little crazy every time I open X: drills with no defense, no perception, no decision making. Just bodies moving in patterns with nothing to solve.⁣
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The science backs up what good coaches already feel in their gut. If you build training around real problems, high fidelity to what actually happens in a game, that transfers so much better than isolated pattern work.⁣
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And the bonus is it's more fun. Players want to solve problems, not just repeat shapes. Even when a player does something "wrong" that somehow works, like turning their back to the ball to get better positioned faster, that's information. That's the game talking to you.⁣
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Train the game. Not around it. #shorts