Transforming Basketball

🔥 Our favorite constraint at Transforming Basketball
🧠 The "Floor is Lava" constraint creates better spacing by forcing players to escape the paint, encouraging smarter positioning and movement without the ball.
😄 Players love it. Coaches see results.
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Coaches: roughly what percentage of practice time do your players actually spend playing?

Time it next practice. Then look for the blocks that could become a game.

Game of the week: Team Dribble Tag.

Everyone has a ball. Keep your dribble alive, tag an evader, dribble back and high five the next tagger. Fastest team to tag everyone wins.

Next level: weak hand only.

Attuning to all the advantages

Directly experiencing the advantages but having time figuring them out and messing up in them is how we get athletes to become more attuned to them. 

Skill is being able to attune and adapt in real time when facing a problem. So the more we can have athletes become aware of all the options and decisions they can make within a particular situation, the better problem solvers they become.

3 scoring rules that change what players look for:

1. Golden snitch: run the solution you're working on, win instantly.
2. Double points: for the goal that's easier to hit.
3. Score reset: miss the defensive standard, back to 0.