This week TJ and Sam discuss In-Game coaching strategies including making strategic adjustments, how and when to use timeouts, managing our emotions and our team’s energy, using stats during games, and ensuring your team is prepared.

Episode 523 - In-Game Coaching & Adjustments

The Hardwood Hustle is a basketball podcast brought to you by PGC Basketball seeks to educate, empower and encourage coaches around the world. Your hosts, TJ Rosene, Sam Allen, and Lisa O'Meara share their experiences and perspectives centered around the game of basketball. Guest interviews from the biggest names in basketball and beyond, provide keen insights into how coaches can achieve a high level of success and be transformational in the lives of their players.

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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 Practice Approach • Alignment in Developmental System • Game experience v. Reps in practice • Spend time on strengths v. weaknesses • The difference between players today • 2 ft. vs. 1 ft. Finishing & Passing • Valuing: Decision-Making, Shooting, Effort, Being a Good Teammate • Developing smarter more athletic players • 32-Minute Workout • Creating 7-Day Challenges • Avoiding checkbox workouts

Episode 547 - Creating an Off-Season Player Development Plan

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 Games Score 7-10 more points next season, by joining PGC Coaching's 4-Week Offensive Track for coaches. Go to pgccoaching.com/tracks by May 9th.

Episode 546 - Offensive Actions

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 Game About Coach Dave Love: For the past 18 years, Dave has coached players of all levels to improve their shooting, through a series of systematic drills & skill progressions.  His skills in developing shooters has brought him to the NBA where he continues to work with some of the greatest players in the league.  Dave has been featured in: NBA.com, Sports Illustrated, Bleacher Report, ESPN, SBNATION, and The Guardian for his unique and noteworthy ability to improve a player’s shooting ability. Follow on twitter: @CoachDaveLove Website: https://www.coachdavelove.com/

Episode 545 - Developing Shooters with Coach Dave Love

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 Iowa Women's Basketball to do? • Favorite Action in the Read & React • Observations from Iowa WBB practices • Player Development with Read & React • Signs of Good Offense • What if you don't have a Caitlin Clark? • Finding extra opportunities for your best players and your offense • Running sets within the Read & React • Simple actions, principles, and Circle Movement • Feeding the post • FAFSA Offense • Coaches wanting either freedom or control Score 7-10 more points next season, by joining PGC Coaching's 4-Week Offensive Track for coaches. Go to pgccoaching.com/tracks by May 9th.

Episode 544 - Iowa Women's BBall and the Read & React Offense

On the other side of a breakdown is a breakthrough and this week, PGC President, Mano Watsa joins the show to share how having courageous conversations can transform your program by building more trust and ensuring more growth.

Episode 523 - In-Game Coaching & Adjustments

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