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Advice to My Younger Self...? Owning Your Story

"What advice would you give to your younger self?" It seems like such a powerful question to ask a mentor or somebody 20 years ahead of...

Top 40 Lessons I Learned in 2020

Well what a year.. here are my top 40 lessons of 2020. I encourage you to do your own, it is the article I look forward to writing the...

Winning or Development - Why Not Both?

Crunch or soft tacos was the argument in the famous Old El Paso advertisement, with this famous young girl who kindly suggested why don't...

You Are Always Trying Out

Back in Melbourne, the land of junior trials are up and running again. While it is a slightly different context remaining Covid safe, all...

If You Can't, Then You Must.

We all have attachments in our life, the things we cling to that become part of our identity. The player who is attached to getting their...

Damian Cotter - Guard Development

Damian Cotter is the Chicago Bull's newest assistant coach, an ex junior National Team Coach with time spent in all facets of basketball...

Removing the Perceptual Rust (Without Contact)

As clubs go back indoors in Melbourne, we are about to see the detraining effects of a 6 month lockdown. While we do talk about the...

Overrated or Underrated? A Fun Exercise for Every Coach

Stole this idea from Dan & Pat on the Slappin Glass Podcast, two wonderful basketball minds doing a great job with their podcast and...

Kevin Goorjian: A PhD in Relationships

Kevin Goorjian is the Head Boys Basketball Coach at Box Hill Senior Secondary College, and has been for 18 years. He spent 10 years in...

Reducing Turnovers in Junior Basketball

When I put 'turnovers' into google images this is what came up, Apple Turnovers so I figured this might ease your mind when the topic of...

10 False Stories that have Fooled Me in Coaching

This post is motivated by the most recent Basketball Immersion Podcast with Zak Boisvert and Shyamala Kiru on emotional regulation and...

Coaching — Can You Create Uncertainty?

I have read hundreds, maybe thousands articles, books and seen clinics on leaderships and what often comes up is authenticity. The...

It’s Not About Drills

I love drills. I do. But we can become obsessed with finding or stealing the magic drill from our favourite coach or team. Everybody is...

The Untapped Resources Coaching at Practice

Coach talks, player learns. Pretty simple right? If only. “The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my...

Coaching Composure - How to Avoid Tilting

"Acknowledge your emotions then dismiss them from the decision making process." - Sherlock Holmes Very rarely in the NBA finals, at the...

Mike Mackay - The ABCD's of a Debrief

Mike Mackay is the Women's Performance Manager for Basketball Canada, with over 30 years coaching experience as a developer and in...

3 Strategies from Bodybuilding for Coaches

I have been a gym junkie, meat head, grunting, protein eating for a fair while now. After 10 years of training, from a complete beginner...

Richard Shuttleworth - Creating Safe Uncertainty

Richard Shuttleworth has over 20 years in coach education and experience in elite level sport, focusing towards skill adaptation. He has...

The Pitfalls of Categorical Thinking

"The traditional learning environment inhibits the cross-pollination of ideas. It’s led to a world of isolated subjects where...

What They Can Execute?

Stan Van Gundy couldn't have said it better, "It's not what you know, but what they can execute." In the Twittersphere, in this time, it...

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