"If it ain't broke don't fix it"

“Well, these drills worked for me,”

“The kids just need more reps,”

“We’ll get to that later.”

We've all heard these phrases and even used them ourselves, it a part of your evolution as a coach and as a person. We all go through our own journey's while on the pursuit of becoming our own person and coach, where it becomes harmful is when you just blindly follow and use what YOU were taught with no reflection or digging into why you're doing something or if there's even another way potentially.

Alex and I discuss the concept of confirmation bias and how a lot of us will use anything as proof to confirm a bias (ex: I'm winning games, so.... why would I change what I'm doing?), yes, you are winning games that's great - how are you winning games though? Is there nay even better way, can you repeat this, did you put any thought into this or are you just using this because your coaches did? All very important questions and reflections to ponder on your journey as a coach

If you believe in what you do, you have a reasoning that makes sense to you, you get the desired results, you can be happy with that of course. My challenge to you, is to never become satisfied and even stagnant with that though, coaching is fluid and ever changing - we work with different athletes every day that present different challenges every single practice, rep, game, etc. Be willing and even eager to find more approaches, philosophies, methods etc to help your players. 

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This was a great episode expanding on our conversation about consistency, we dive much further into the concept of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation - what exactly the difference is and discussing from our own experience when we've been either intrinsically or extrinsically motivated

The biggest message I want to get across in this episode is that you can use both and both are powerful fuel sources in their own right - it's important to recognize when to use them and even think about what holds more importance for us when considering what drives us (internal or external)

I think this is a great conversation to provoke thought and really make you consider more what your source of fuel is

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Alex and I talk about timeout philosophies and how we approach giving feedback in-game, whether that's in a timeout, pre game, half time or post game

Alex brings a plethora of experience from middle school AAU all the way up to division 2 womens basketball and everything in between, while most of my experience has been through the lens of an assistant position at a collegiate level

The contrast in our experiences created a great dynamic to discuss both timeouts (when to call them, how to make them efficient, how to use them strategically, etc) and the best ways to give feedback throughout a span of the game!

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Alex and I discuss the power of consistency, times we've struggled to be consistent in our own lives as well the times that consistency has helped take us to places that we didn't know we could go

We discuss the contrast between motivation and discipline, what exactly does it mean to be inspired and what place does that have, the bond and trust that comes with showing up consistently as well as what happens when you don't show up... 

Beyond just consistency, we touched on priorities and the concept in which whether we can hold multiple priorities at all or if we can really only have one. Much more in between and as always, some humor mixed in there. 

I hope you take something away from this episode as it's a little change of pace from our normal training, coaching and performance talk. This is one of the directions that this podcast will be going - perspective, psychology, philosophy on a human level beyond just sport! 

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We're so back.

Alex is one of the best people i know, as a person and coach, he's one of one and he has one of the more unique stories in the industry in my opinion. 

He brings an incredible variety of expertise and experience, it's always a pleasure to talk to him and learn from him. 

Make sure you guys tune in all the way until the end for a special announcement!

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Beyond excited to get back to it, thank you to everyone that was still listening to episodes while I wasn't posting consistently, y'all are the backbone of this show and I appreciate you greatly. 

I have so much in store for this podcast and I can't wait to bring y'all so much value every single week!!

Alex is a phenomenal coach and a pioneer in this space, he's an advocate for progressing and evolving the current state of development and basketball coaching as well as the overall approach to things like: performance training, front office work, athletic training, etc

The traditional/dominant approach is outdated, and as Alex mentions in the episode - you wouldn't expect your doctor to be using methods/medicine from 2000 or early because that would be malpractice, why do we continue to accept this as the status quo and not demand for this field to be as updated and progressive as possible. The most recent and relevant research/information should be applied to coaching as much as possible

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Enjoy the rest of Jack and I's conversation!

Jack is a great human & basketball player, he and I talk about his journey from being under recruited, having his freshman year taken away by covid, winning a national championship the next year and then back to back conference championships along with all the struggles and hardship in between 

After SMCC Jack takes us through his experience at Franklin Pierce which a NCAA Division 2 school in NH in the NE10, he played there for one semester and shortly transferred to UNE (University of New England) to finish out the year and why that change was so important to him and why it was such a better fit 

Jack provides some great insight for any players listening and anyone in general!

This week I touch on what exactly skill is, and how it differs from things like technique, as well as what exactly constraints are and how we can use/apply them

There's an important distinction that I think needs to be more known and that's the difference between a games-approach and the constraints-led approach, while you'll see a lot of crossover between the two they are very different. There are plenty of coaches that create small-sided games and apply one constraint and then leave that and let them play for awhile, and that's where I believe the misunderstanding comes from - some people think that I throw the ball out and just let my players play 3v3 freely... that's not the case. 

I work hard to engineer practice sessions to development skillful basketball players, and that happens through creating unique and creative small-sided games with specific constraints applied in order to elicit the skills needed to be improved upon. 

Let me know what you guys think!!