EP2: Why Should All Coaches be Using Methods Backed by Science?

In this episode, Alex Sarama delves into how basketball coaches and practitioners can inform their approaches based on contemporary skill acquisition research. He highlights the gap that exists between the research and its practical application, providing some practical examples as to how this can be overcome. Within the episode, Alex emphasizes the importance of coaches understanding the essence of human movement in order to design coaching and organizational approaches based on an ecological dynamics framework.

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Key Takeaways

1:10 - "There's a big gap that exists in terms of the ideas stemming from the research world, and then the ability of practitioners to practically apply them."

5:05 - "There's a readily accessible evidence-base for us to access, learn, and apply in whatever field we're working in within basketball."

10:24 - "Understanding the differences between the two skill acquisition perspectives."

13:30 - "An affordance is simply an opportunity for action."

19:50 - "Constraints are always present and impacting every single possession and every movement within basketball, whether that's a practice or a game."

25:05 - "Variability needs to be an essential component of our practice environments."

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