HOW TO BUILD AN EFFICIENT HIGH SCHOOL/AAU GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM
It isn't about having the fastest, strongest, tallest players (though it helps!)
It's about math.
Here is my blueprint: a model built on pace, space, and probability. 🧵👇
MORE THAN SCORING
“The amount of points you score doesn’t determine whether you are playing good or bad. Your point total is never an indicator of how you play. It’s how hard you work and how good of a teammate you are.” (Caitlin Clark)
📽️ @TheWinningDiff1
Kendall Chadderton (6-3 F, Class of 2027) showed the full toolkit in @SelectEventsBB Atlantic City Showcase!
↔️ End-to-End Speed
💪 Post-Up Finishing
🪟 Dominating the Glass
🚫 Instinctual Shot Blocking
@KendallC_2027@LADYATTACKELITE@Assist_U_
It’s Saturday. Many parents spent most of today taking their kids to sporting events. Jackson Prince explains how today’s youth sports culture undermines teen’s self-image, reduces identity to performance, & how sports narrows their life experience creating an identity crisis.
This type of training is what we call Differential Learning (DL). Using DL for warm-ups is a highly effective strategy, as it “opens up” a player’s system degrees of freedom. It can also be an excellent tool for light training days, especially for recovery, helping players restore a wide range of movement solutions post-competition.
When performing DL activities, we want to encourage as much variability as possible. A shooter may shoot out of different stances (e.g., feet wide, feet narrow, staggered, one leg), with different release speeds, varying arc heights, etc. There are an endless number of ways to do this. As the shooter performs their DL tasks, they should continually change their range and location (even if this means taking one or two steps between every shot). The passer should also pass from different angles, from different locations, and with varying velocities and spins.
Dominoes offense is the future.
🔑 Zero-second decisions
🔑 1 can’t guard 2
🔑 The floor is lava
Basketball is becoming less about actions…
and more about how quickly you can create and maintain an advantage to hunt a GREAT shot.
The best offenses don’t let the defense reset.
They keep tipping the next domino.
@theportlandfire
Taking the April Eval period with an experienced grain of salt, but I’m going to encourage these clubs to develop some sort of system for which players can start displaying better decision making. TEAMS develop a common language and some operational standards - and it helps everyone be better. They need the accountability and foundation. Teach them! And players - don’t run away from the coaches who challenge you in this way, please.
But - this I’ll stand on: the free-for-all is not benefitting anyone. And “pressing” does not qualify as a system.
The ability to catch and stick! Shoulders square, feet pointing to the target, ball immediately in the shooting pocket high and let it fly! Trainers should have no dribbling sessions, get open without the ball and shoot without putting ball on the floor!@TNTSportsUS
2027 G Caroline Clark @carolinec2027 continues to show why she's one of the best pure shotmakers in NC.
5.5 3PM/gm against stiff competition. ELITE shooting off the catch and the dribble. Does not need much time or space to get her shot off!
@LADYATTACKELITE@Assist_U_