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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
Most coaches I talk to are stunned when they hear this: some of the most skilled female basketball players didn't specialize in basketball until they were 15 or older. Not 8. Not 10. Fifteen. When I think about what that actually means for how we approach developing female
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Only a handful of countries in the world are genuinely rethinking how basketball is taught at the grassroots level. Germany might be one of the most interesting ones right now — and most people haven't noticed yet. I came across a conversation between Alex and Simon Bertram, a coach
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Most strength and conditioning coaches have a moment — a specific turning point where everything they thought they knew gets quietly dismantled. For Jamie, that moment wasn't a seminar, a certification, or a conversation with a mentor. It was watching his daughter figure out how to move through the
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Somewhere in Ho Chi Minh City, there are 400 kids sharing two basketball courts, dribbling on patches of concrete, and never getting a chance to shoot on an actual basket after practice ends. When I heard that, I had to stop and sit with it for a second. That image
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Only 400 kids enrolled. Low retention. Coaches still running sessions like it's a military drill. And a young coach from abroad trying to figure out how to change all of it — without speaking the local language. When I first heard this conversation, I couldn't stop thinking
Nearly 70% of kids quit organized sports by age 13. I've sat with that number a lot. It's not a trivia stat — it's an indictment of how most youth coaching is currently done. Kids aren't leaving because the game got hard. They&