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Most coaches have never worked with a skill acquisition specialist. And the ones who have? A surprising number of them started out skeptical, arms crossed, shoulders raised — exactly the posture Tyler Yby describes in this conversation. I've been sitting with this podcast episode for a few days now,
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Most coaches have never heard the word "affordance." And honestly? Neither had I, not in any meaningful way, until I sat down with this podcast episode. But within the first few minutes, I realized this might be one of the most important concepts I'd never been
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Most athletes spend the first twenty minutes of practice doing agility ladders, foam rolling, and dynamic stretches — then the whistle blows and suddenly none of that carries over to anything that actually happens in the game. I've watched this play out at every level, and for a long
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Only about 10% of youth basketball coaches played the game at a competitive level. Think about that for a second. The vast majority of people coaching third and fourth graders are volunteer parents doing their absolute best with what they know — which is usually whatever they were taught two decades
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Most basketball trainers are just recycling the same cone drills, ball-handling sequences, and scripted footwork patterns that have been passed down for decades. Nobody questions it. Nobody asks whether any of it actually transfers to a real game. They just keep doing it because that's what everyone else
There's a moment most coaches recognize — the one where you realize that doing exactly what you were told, drilling exactly what the textbook says, and running the same progressions you've always run... just isn't producing the players you hoped for. I've heard
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Two thirds. That's the number that stopped me cold when I heard it. Two thirds of Division I college basketball coaches — across 17 seasons and nearly 29,000 player observations — showed no statistically significant impact on player performance. Not "a little impact." Not "modest impact.
Most third and fourth grade basketball games look the same: constant whistles, jump balls every thirty seconds, kids standing around confused, and parents in the bleachers watching what amounts to organized chaos. I've seen it more times than I can count. It's frustrating for everyone — the
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Only about 10% of youth basketball coaches can explain the difference between using small-sided games and coaching through constraints. I know that sounds harsh. But after listening to this conversation between Alex and Will Twigg about their work with an under-14 group at the London Lions Academy, I'm
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Nearly 70% of kids quit organized sports by age 13. Let that number sink in for a second. I came across this stat a while back and it never really left me — and when I heard Sergio Lara-Buel unpacking the mission behind his nonprofit movement on this podcast episode, it
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Five hundred coaches. That's the number that stopped me cold when I heard Alex Sarama mention it almost in passing — 500 coaches now active inside the Transforming Basketball membership community, sharing ideas, changing their seasons, rethinking everything they thought they knew about the game. And this is a
Here's something I hear constantly, and it never stops being striking: a young female basketball player who looks unstoppable in practice — sharp, decisive, fluid — and then the game starts and she disappears. Not physically. Mentally. The confidence just evaporates. I've watched it happen, I've