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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...
Jack Fleming
Sep 23, 20204 min read
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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...
Jack Fleming
Sep 18, 20204 min read
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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...
Jack Fleming
Sep 8, 20204 min read
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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...
Jack Fleming
Aug 20, 20203 min read
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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...
Jack Fleming
Aug 18, 20204 min read
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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...
Jack Fleming
Aug 12, 20203 min read
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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...
Jack Fleming
Aug 6, 20204 min read
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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...
Jack Fleming
Aug 4, 20202 min read
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Eddie Jones & Ric Charlesworth: Utilising Psychology in Teams
"One of the challenges for for an exceptional coach is to truly understand that what is obvious to him, may not be at all obvious to his...
Jack Fleming
Jul 28, 20203 min read
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JOMO - The Joy of Missing Out
One of the curses of particular myself, and I can only assume I'm not the only one - is this constant dopamine crunch to always be...
Jack Fleming
Jul 17, 20203 min read
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Impatience with Action, Patience with Results
"Wisdom is just knowing the long term consequences of your actions." - Naval Ravikant Bill Bradley is a former New York Knick, 2x NBA...
Jack Fleming
Jul 10, 20201 min read
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The One Thing & The 20–30–50 Formula Method for Practice Planning
At it most refined, basketball is a game of extreme complexity. The more you learn, the more you understand how much information and...
Jack Fleming
Jul 9, 20205 min read
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Purposeful Coach Development — The Seinfeld Strategy
Jerry Seinfeld one of America’s greatest stand up comedians. He was also the co-creator and co-writer of Seinfeld, considered to be one...
Jack Fleming
Jul 9, 20204 min read
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Pascal Meurs — Teaching Defensive Decision Making
The following notes are from the FIBA U14 Get Together held in Belgium, on the topic of Defensive Decision Making presented by Pascal...
Jack Fleming
Jul 9, 20203 min read
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Creating Practice Variability Back in Lockdown
Unfortunately down here in Melbourne, Australia we are back in lock down. Athletes will be confined to their own company and backyard and...
Jack Fleming
Jul 9, 20203 min read
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Basketball Analytics - 5 Things I Didn't Realise
I will start out by saying I am definitely not an analytics expert, or even novice by any stretch. I am a complete beginner. So please...
Jack Fleming
Jul 7, 20202 min read
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Top 40 Lessons I Learned in 2018
I hope for my top 40 lessons to be an encouragement for you to try and do your own, as an opportunity to reflect and learn from your...
Jack Fleming
Jul 6, 20208 min read
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David Fizdale — Creating a Culture & Style of Play
Please enjoy the following notes from David Fizdale’s clinic at Coaching U Live 2017 on creating a culture and style of play. Taking a...
Jack Fleming
Jul 6, 20202 min read
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Loyola-Chicago HC: Porter Moser — TABC Clinic Notes
Please enjoy the following notes from the 2018 Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Clinic by coach of Loyola Chicago Porter Moser....
Jack Fleming
Jul 6, 20203 min read
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The Goldmine Effect Part 4: Secrets of Youth Talent Development
If you haven't read the previous posts, here they are. Part 1 - What you see, is not what you get Part 2 - Play more games, do less...
Jack Fleming
Jul 2, 20203 min read
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