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Building a Basketball Speed Philosophy

Building a Basketball Speed Philosophy It’s funny to think about is how hard coaches work on their X’s and O’s but completely miss how they want their players’ footwork to be performed. Not all coaches fall into this category, but a lot do. Many basketball coaches will use “motivation” to get their players to move

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Snap Shuffle

Whenever we talk about coaching a movement skill, we need to follow a framework or a model. This allows consistency and a way to know what’s right and what’s not. For instance, with a typical Defensive Basketball Shuffle, the athlete needs to complete a full lateral gait cycle when speed is the goal. The athlete’s

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Taking Conditioning To The Extreme

Don’t Empty The Tank of Your Athletes! It’s almost like a badge of honor. You know -when a coach gets a high off physically destroying their athletes with punishing amounts of conditioning! The problem with this approach is the athletes rarely recover from that kind of workout and don’t have enough left in the tank

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