🏀Teaching Basketball Decision-Making
Hornets' Rex Walters, SportsLab360, Avoiding Cognitive Biases
Rex Walters Pick & Roll Defense for Big Men
Charlotte Hornets assistant coach, Rex Walters, breaks down pick and roll coverage and the teaching points for PNR defense at last month’s coaches clinic here in Greenville, SC.
SportsLab360 Basketball’s Nick Manzoni
Nick Manzoni of SportsLab360 shares his vision for decision-based training for basketball players of all learning ages.
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SportsLab360 Basketball’s Decision-Making Training
This month, we'd like to highlight SportsLab360 Basketball, a company with a mission to help youth players improve their Basketball IQ.
This online platform is made up of engaging, interactive modules that focus on different tactical concepts, from the basics of reading a ball screen, to specific offenses such as the dribble drive. Coaches assign these modules as basketball homework for their players, and can track player progress and scoring, as well as input custom notes within the modules. By working through the modules before practice, players arrive with a cognitive head-start on the topic, and coaches can spend less practice time explaining, and more time practicing.
Cognitive Biases in Coaching: Avoiding Outcome Bias
“But Coach, I made it…”
The above phrase is one that many coaches have heard before. The lessons of shot selection are often lost on players after a favorable outcome follows a subpar decision. This is one example of a common cognitive bias called Outcome Bias.
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