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Twenty-five years of coaching experience, and the thing that changed everything wasn't a new play system or a better drill library — it was a completely different way of seeing the game. That's what struck me when I listened to this conversation with Jeff Schmidt on the
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Sixty players. Fifty coaches. One week in Italy — and not a single written practice plan. When I first heard Alex Sarama describe how he ran the Transforming Basketball summer camp in Rosetto, I honestly had to sit with that for a second. No plan. Just principles. Most coaches I know
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A sixth-grade girl with zero basketball experience walks into a high school practice. No one teaches her a Euro Step. No one diagrams an In-and-Out move on a whiteboard. And yet — by the end of the season, she's doing both. On her own. Because the environment gave her
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Most coaching origin stories follow a familiar arc. You played the game, you retired, you started coaching. Clean, linear, predictable. But what happens when the person handing over the microphone is a strength and conditioning master's student, the new host is a Brazilian-born coach who once tried to
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Most coaches obsess over X's and O's. Drills, sets, schemes, rotations. And look — all of that matters. But I've become increasingly convinced that the thing separating good teams from truly great ones isn't tactical at all. It's the environment. It&
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Most coaches think their job is to develop basketball players. But what if that framing is already the problem? I listened to a conversation between Alex and Kareem Khil on the Transforming Basketball podcast recently, and one line hit me harder than I expected. Kareem said something like — if you&
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Most coaches walk into a season with a list of expectations. Win percentage targets. Defensive ratings. Development benchmarks. And then — almost inevitably — reality doesn't match the list. Players underperform. The team loses five in a row. Nobody's meeting the standard. And what happens next? Frustration. Finger-pointing.
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A point guard is wedged near the basket. Three defenders are practically wrapping themselves around him. No clear path. No obvious outlet. And then — without looking — he threads a no-look pass underneath a defender's arm and finds his teammate on the perimeter. Nobody drew that up. Nobody drilled
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I've spent a lot of time around coaches. Good ones, great ones, and some who worked incredibly hard and still couldn't figure out why their players weren't growing. And the more I've watched and listened, the more I've come to
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Most people would kill for a job traveling the world, staying in Ritz Carlton hotels, working for the NBA. Alex Sama had that job. And he quit it. Voluntarily. Because he felt like it was getting in the way of something more important — actually understanding how basketball players learn. When
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I've sat through a lot of coaching education in my time. Clinics, certifications, podcasts, textbooks — the full spectrum. And for a long time, I kept feeling like something was missing. The drills made sense. The systems were logical. But there was always this nagging gap between what we
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I've spent a lot of time listening to coaches talk about their careers — how they got jobs, how they lost them, how they built philosophies that actually hold up under pressure. And the more I absorb these conversations, the more I realize that everything coaches are told about