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Your practice looks beautiful. Everybody is moving, nobody is standing around, the whistle is on time, and the assistant with the clipboard is happy. And then the game starts and your team cannot make a read to save its life. That gap between a clean practice and a confused team is what this episode is about.
Coach Collins breaks down the shift from block drills to games based practice. Not throwing the ball out and letting them play, which is the other extreme and just as lazy. Small sided games with a constraint, a scoring system, and a teaching point baked into the rules, so the game itself does the coaching while you stand there and ask questions.
What we get into:
The difference between a drill, a small sided game, and free play, and when each one belongs in your practice
Why unopposed reps build confidence but almost never build decision making
Constraints as coaching: taking away the dribble, shrinking the floor, adding a shot clock, capping the passes
Two on two and three on three as your best teaching tools all preseason
Scoring the game so the behavior you want is the behavior that wins
Asking questions instead of shouting corrections, and how to build that habit as a coach
Keeping the competitive temperature high without letting it turn into a street fight
How to script a practice that is seventy percent live and still teaches something specific every segment
The one thing to watch for: kids who look great in lines and disappear when there is a defender
Your challenge: take one block drill you have run for years, add a defender and a constraint, and run it as a game this week. Watch what you learn about your team in ten minutes.
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