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This week TJ and Sam discuss how coaches strike a balance between creating an intense hard-working and competitive environment with ensuring your players are enjoying their experience invested in the team.Show Notes:• Creating the right environment for skill acquisition• Being aware of the player experience• Can it be competitive, hard-working, and fun?• Goal of a coach• Getting your team invested in the team• The importance of teaching• Role of running as conditioning• Coach personality• Fig...

This week on the Hardwood Hustle we’re joined by Coach Matthew Smith from Washington State to discuss analytics, propelling your coaching career and what we can learn from pickup basketball.Finding a mentorOpportunities to growLittle things that make you invaluableUtilizing analyticsDo what others won'tTeach betterPickup basketballSend us a Message.

It's easy to go through the off-season just checking boxes... Ball handling drills, check. Passing drills, check. Shooting drills, check. But to ensure your individual players are actually improving, take a more intentional approach and hone on theirs and your biggest return on investment.Show Notes:• Universal Fundamental skills approach v. Individual approach• SICC Approach|• Current v. Next Level & Developing a specialty• Factors: Time, System, & Long Term Development• Summer Pract...

This week TJ and Sam discuss what makes offensive actions work including how to utilize different types of screens, combining actions together, personnel implications and how you might steal actions from other teams based on what’s hard to guard.Show Notes:• Flare Screens• Back Screens• Ball Screens• Combo & Iso Actions• 2-Man Actions• What's Hard to Guard & Small-Sided GamesSend us a Message.

This week we’re joined by NBA Shooting Coach, Dave Love to discuss the most important aspects and essential teaching points of developing better shooters and even fixing broken shots.Show Notes:Positive & Negative EnergyBuilding a BaseFoundational FootworkThe 'One Thing' to CoachArch & Set PointImproving Youth DevelopmentHow the Greats Got ThereFixing Broken ShotsKnowledge of Process v. ResultsCoaching the Mental GameAbout Coach Dave Love:For the past 18 years, Dave has coached ...

Iowa women’s basketball just made another run to the National Championship Game, and did you know they run the Read & React offense? This week, Rick Torbett from Better Basketball joins TJ and Sam to discuss what makes for good offense and how Iowa’s system has set Caitlin Clark and her teammates up for success.Free Read & React Master Class: https://betterbasketball.com/read-and-react-on-demand/Website: https://betterbasketball.com/Show Notes:• What is the Read & React allowing I...