
Transforming Basketball
Changing How We Think About Basketball Performance
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Jon Lobb
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Alex Sarama
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Despite the game of basketball frequently evolving, many coaching and organisational approaches have remained unchanged across the last several decades. Coaching practices within the basketball world are often based upon entrenched traditions, social norms and the way things have always been done. The potential to optimise basketball performance and access large competitive advantages through an evidence-based approach have not been harnessed. Until now.
Transforming Basketball provides the complete vision for how practitioners serving in any role can benefit from a contemporary approach. Written with a primary focus on coaching, the book provides tangible strategies which have the potential to transform the basketball world and reconceptualise how we view the role of the coach. These ideas can be applied to virtually every area of an organisation including the front office, athletic performance, physical therapy, analytics and more.
Transforming Basketball goes deep into the theory, making sense of an ecological dynamics framework and the constraints-led approach by providing numerous practical examples. Within the book, listeners will discover the true essence of skill while learning how to incorporate contemporary skill acquisition research into both coaching and wider-ranging organisational approaches. The gap is bridged between the research and its practical application through numerous illustrations, case studies, guest author contributions, links to interactive material and reflective tasks.
For coaches at all levels of the game - from volunteers working with beginners through to NBA coaches training the best players in the world - Transforming Basketball offers something for everyone. This book will leave every listener reflecting deeply on how they think and operate, while laying the foundation for how contemporary organisations of the future may operate.
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- chris
- 05-06-25
good premise / content. long winded, bloated, odd narrator.
Great content and premise but too long winded, at least for an audio book. Written more like a scientific journal with citations. Author makes up an extensive new vocabulary when not really needed. I did not care for the narrators voice (froggy).
Overall a hard listen. good content but you need to work.. could be condensed.
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