🏀 Let’s talk actual Player Development in College Basketball:
⏳ How long do you have with that player?
• Summer 6-8 Weeks (likely 2 Individual Workouts per week dependent on your program)
• Pre-Season 10-12 Weeks
📋 What is your Plan? How is it organized? Do you have Progressions built in?
• For every position OR specific player you should have a collection goal of improvement.
• All Workouts should be written ahead of time with a plan on building out X, Y, Z skills.
• Within written workouts build in ‘progressions’ that make a certain skill more difficult to master.
• Track results of drills throughout each workout. Then go back to them again during that phase of training to determine if that player is improving.
📝 What are you Tracking? (Example pictured below)
• With my players the thing I can control the most in improvement (through data) is shooting.
• I start all phases (summer, pre-season, post-season) the very first workout with a baseline test. A baseline is a generalized pre-determined amount of shots that can be tracked and easily mimicked again.
• This test gives you basic shooting percentages. What they shot from mid-range, three and free throw.
• I go a step further and get all data points on Arc, Depth and Straightness of their shot using the
@noahbasketball system.
• I use that data to determine what needs to be addressed with their shot and then I build individual workouts around moving that element (usually arc or straightness)
• The last workout of the phase we complete the same baseline workout again to determine if they improved.
• Example pictured below Aug. 27 1st workout to Nov. 1 last workout. In this player we saw a 10.4% growth in 3pt%, 8% growth in Mid-Range and 16.4% growth in Free Throw.
🤝 Is this the perfect method for Player Development?
• Not necessarily… but it’s organized AND can tell you, the Player and the Head Coach if improvement happened or not.
🗣️ If my players that I directly oversee improve and it shows up in games it’s because that player worked and earned success, not because of me! We all benefit from players improvement. If those players don’t show growth on the court it’s on me. That’s accountability that has to be taken as an assistant coach.