I’ve spoken with at least one coach on over half of NBA teams’ player development staff, and almost every single team I’ve spoken with is beginning to implement the Constraints Led Approach and skill acquisition science into their training, if not using it as the centerpiece of their development.
If you think CLA coach’s believe “players should just figure it out without much instruction” you need to look into it more. If anything I give much more instruction than I used to. It’s just more implicit vs explicit.
CLA comes on a spectrum with people like Transforming Bball on one end who take a hard line that players should "figure it out" w/o much instruction & coaches who shell drill for 20 minutes a day & drill skill until it's perfect.
In my experience so far the answer is in between
I think Micah Nori said more in this one answer about how he wants the Blazers to play than Tiago did over the entire course of last season
(from KGW8 YouTube: https://t.co/CVtvR6gtQO)
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