S2 Cognition Podcast

Episode 35: Training Decision-Making with Alabama Men's Basketball Assistant Coach, Ryan Pannone

The University of Alabama Men’s Assistant Basketball Coach, Ryan Pannone, dives into how S2 testing helped unlock innovation in his coaching by targeting specific areas for improvement and designing more efficient drills. He also discusses his approach of teaching, drilling, reading, and playing to develop players’ decision-making abilities, and emphasizes the importance of making mistakes in real-time and learning from them. Additionally, we touch on the need for self-correction and the importance of building flexible brains and creating opportunities for players to improvise and find rapid solutions.