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🔥 Our favorite constraint at Transforming Basketball
🧠 The "Floor is Lava" constraint creates better spacing by forcing players to escape the paint, encouraging smarter positioning and movement without the ball.
😄 Players love it. Coaches see results.
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2-on-2, Only Score off Gets In A Restricted Space
Constraining the space leads to harder offensive decision-making, making it more realistic for the offense vs venturing into unrealistic spacings that won't exist in 5-on-5 play.
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Many teams waste the first 5 seconds of the shot clock upon gaining possession. This blog breaks down how to play with intentionality in transition to avoid being 'stuck in neutral.'
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Snowman Shooting ⛄️
Partner shooting activity challenging players to organise their hands underneath the ball before flowing directly into their shot. Change the starting position, distance or angle to create variability between reps.
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Many coaches state that their players must be taught something in order to do this. But does this align with common sense and what actually happens when watching them play?
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📊 Looking for some of the best SSGs to use immediately in your practices? Grab our free book here 👉 transformingbball.com/small-…
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Coaches worldwide are transforming their practices with our Small-Sided Games Book. Don’t get left behind 👉 transformingbball.com/pdf-th…
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Try this 2-on-1 activity where you can only score off a "get" trigger. Players discover coverage solutions like the keep and pitch and slip.
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🛡️ Looking to improve your players' ball handling, the ability to screen and seal, AND the skill of navigating screens defensively?
Shield Tag is a multi-dimensional SSG which hits ALL these concepts.
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Josh Fan spoke about why he moved away from the dominant approach to embrace an ecological framework in basketball skills training.
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We love using Cat and Mouse 1-on-1 with beginners! Great way to mix dribbling and finishing into the same SSG with an appropriate level of challenge.
Learn the constraints for using this SSG from Transforming Clinician Kerri Kuzbyt.
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The problem with Read & React? It makes players memorize offensive patterns based on their teammates instead of reading defensive coverages. Discover the alternative to the read and react layers.
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🏀 Whether it’s for your players or your coaching staff, a Transforming Event will shift how you see the game. Sign up now 👉 transformingbball.com/events…
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Here is a key constraint detail for running gets: must be one foot on or inside the 3PT line, otherwise it's a turnover.
Coaches - why do you think we use this constraint?
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Yes. Mine lost possession all over the shop at first. Once it clicked the floor opened up. Cheap drill, big return.
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Offensive players on each wing & point. Defender under the rim. Rolls a ball to one of the offensive players, he has to recover & play 1-on-1 to a score or rebound. Rotated R to L.
I did a lot of the 4-man shell drills from Knight to work help and recover & basline rotation.
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Contemporary player development requires coaches to move away from always telling the players what technique they want to see and how it should be performed.
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Specificity is the right lever, and most coaches skip it because narrowing a constraint feels like cheating. Discovery costs twice though: practice time, and the player's willingness to be visibly wrong in front of everybody. How much of that second cost do you put on the room?
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Pivot Post-Up 1v1 🔄
Post-up activity where the offensive player receives the ball with an additional defender showing a dig. This creates an extra source of information and challenges the player to pivot, protect the ball, scan and decide how to attack.
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In this blog post, we explore how the principles of game design—commonly used in the video game industry—can be applied to basketball coaching and practice planning.
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New blog just dropped 💡
Effective Player Development: The Essential Shift from “Drilling” to “Co-Designing”
Read here 👇
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What’s the best way to attack a show coverage in pick and roll? This blog breaks down some common coverage solutions that help create advantages vs the show.
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There is a big difference between an automatic pass and cut and an "opportune" pass and cut that is not scripted by the offense.
Scripted pass and cut does not put youth players in the best situations to become more skillful, as they replicate a pattern as opposed to learning how to actually play.
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