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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
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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
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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&