Whether it's a game plan, season plan, or plan for your program, at some point when it doesn't go well we're all faced with questions, concerns and challenges about if our plan should change. In this week's episode TJ and Sam discuss how coaches adapt and assess while also staying true to who they are.

Show Notes:
• The skill of being adaptability as coaches
• Culture & Leadership are the base
• Failure to adapt
• When to change strategies and schemes
• How to assess the situation
• Style of play
• What type of coach are you?
• Fringe things v. winning habits
• When your adjustments won't make a difference
• Preparing for the best teams
• Winning multiple ways

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This week, in order to unpack some best practices and strategies to coach development and growth, TJ and Sam reflect on 4 ways coaches can choose the best approach.

Show Notes:

• Intro to topic, different approaches to take
• How to pick the right one
• Find your authentic voice
• When it's time to reinvent yourself
• Knowing yourself
• Identifying your gifts & blind spots
• Coaching to your North star
• Developing coaching skills
• Apologizing to your former players
• Loving, hostile, firm, and permissive
• Recap

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This week, Coach Graham Maxwell joins Sam and TJ to discuss how your leadership and team culture affect your Xs and Os, especially your team’s shot selection.

Show Notes:
• The art of coaching - mastering all facets
• Identifying what each team needs
• Getting buy-in about shot selection
• Playing CIA - Confident, Intelligent, and Aggressive
• FG%'s - Educating players and coaches
• Hearing the player's perspective
• How players earn freedom
• Being able to 'show' players
• Playing fearless and riding the edge
• Transparency with the team
• Being able to back it up with the #'s
• Teaching shot selection
• Do you know your team?
• Letting players in on your coaching
• Heartset and mindset
• Film sessions focused on when they're getting it right
• The fundamental of winning and losing
• Talented v. less talented teams
• Every player should anticipate shooting
• Adjusting game to game - season to season
• Confident yet responsible

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This week, Sam and TJ discuss 4 important tips and strategies for your player development that you’re going to want to incorporate right away.

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This week, is a reminder of the importance of the mindset and approach you bring to every practice and every game throughout the entire season. TJ and Sam discuss how to avoid complacency and maintain enthusiasm for the standards.

Show Notes:
• Practicing like you lost your last game
• The value of consistency v. adjustments
• Leading your team and having an edge
• Competing and holding the rope in practice
• Yelling is overrated
• Actions speak louder than words
• Be attached to the right things
• Moments of truth
• "You have to coach next year's team now"
• What habits do you need to beat the best?
• Process v. Outcome driven

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For most of us, the off-season is closer than we think. This week we’re joined by Mano Watsa, president of PGC Basketball to discuss how players, coaches, and parents can focus on the most important aspects of player development.

Show Notes:
• Introduction
• Preparing players
• Personal trainers and how to utilize them
• Overskilled and underdeveloped
• The quality of the experience: Time, Energy, and Money
• Dreams, Direction, and Discipline
• Matching the player's aspirations, not the parent's
• Increasing passion and confidence
• The camp experience
• Why PGC
•. Go to https://pgcbasketball.com/ to find out more

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This week TJ and Sam discuss coaching tips and strategies that impact winning and can make a big difference for your team and season.

Show Notes:
• Playing harder
• Play hard, smart, and together
• What loses
• Coaching effort
• Coaching examples
• Identifying the standard without emotion
• Avoid coaching out of frustration
• The game is held hostage
• Coaching the mistake
• The role of analytics
• Effecting winning - What gets lost
• Shot generation & Shot selection
• Getting the map right
• Substitutions and balance

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This week we discuss a quote from UCONN Men’s Coach, Dan Hurley about wanting his players to be obsessed, how we agree and disagree with his statement, and what that might look like for your team.

Show Notes:
• Coach Dan Hurley's quote
• Helping your players love the game
• Baseline standards and expectations
• Understanding individual player perspectives
• Not wanting obsessed players
• How to help players who aren't as committed
• Players want high standards
• Identify your non-negotiables
• Modeling love for the game
• Knowing what matters most

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This week is a 4 quarters episode with TJ and Lisa discussing ball pressure, preparation, rebounding, and what we do in our culture when we’re winning versus when we’re losing.

Show Notes:
• Ball pressure
• Compete and anticipate
• Anticipate what they do if you apply pressure
• Changing pressure – keep offense guessing
• Mental pressure = mental fatigue
• Teach players the nuance of pressure
• What types of teams to pressure
• Preparation & Scouting
• What you do physically to prepare matters
• Layer it in and build – grow over time
• Emphasis everything and get nothing
• Implications of switching
• Rebounding
• Habits & Individual Approaches
• Mentality & Urgency
• Personnel options
• Playing the percentages & angles
• Culture – When you’re winning v. losing
• Focusing on the process
• The importance of honesty
• Knowing the heartbeat of the team
• Meeting your standards every day

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This week TJ and Sam hit on an important topic for coaches which is how you confront your players and be honest with where they’re at while also creating a team culture that genuinely cares about each other. 

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