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📣 We've just dropped v2.0 of our 🏀🏀🏀 platform! "level up" shooting & player development through a unique blend of cutting-edge tech, practical basketball wisdom & contemporary thinking in the fields of: * skill acquisition * psychology * gaming shootxp.com

Athlete development is shaped by the development environment. Many factors influence the player. When the environment is safe, supportive and aligned, better conditions are created for long-term development, performance and well-being.

Audio version of my latest book now available! The Advanced Ecological Approach to Skill Development on Audible audible.com/pd/B0GH8SMLR7?…

Good discussion on "scaling" in 🏀🏀🏀...

The evolution of basketball in a cartoon

Poor-shooting teams may be due to talent identification/evaluation, lack of skill development, poor practice design, inability to create good shots for shooters, coach behaviors or something else. Key is to identify problem correctly rather than automatically blame players' reps.

Learnings/noticing from a top 5 🏀 league globally.

@BBallImmersion That court you're on looks very familiar...😉

How do you teach change of pace? Here is a game to coaching example connection we have shown our youth players (plus they get to explore the drill a lot).

Do we see the same pattern in world-class basketball players as in other sports/domains...? science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance buff.ly/MlkjUiE

GOLD 👇 "my energy was in the wrong place... ...it's about the relationships & the development ...I started thinking a lot about what good guys they are & an enjoyment of spending time with them instead of getting buried on the computer ...more coffees, more talks" #coaching

@lono610 so good Pete! What a great story to share with coaches to help them (re-)focus on what really matters going into 2026...

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LOAD MANAGEMENT 📊 🤯 Navigating the complexity & tensions around player loads & training availability/activities can be a difficult one for coaches We've been involved in & observed these dynamics from multiple perspectives across two decades - reach out if you want support 🤝

Ecological Dynamics/CLA 201: Constraints - create "boundary conditions", transcend "drills v games" Our founder @uppy01 explaining constraints on a podcast in *2015*... x.com/shootxp/status…

Ecological Dynamics/CLA 201 (301?): Cognition & Memory Rob will be focusing on cognition and memory next year for those interested in going deeper - have a listen...

"it's not great - I just have to stay in the corner" Recent comment from a promising youth player (15 yrs old) re: his experience with rep team 4/5-out offenses running middle on-balls, whilst the 3 other players get out the way, are sub-optimal for player development

Ecological Dynamics/CLA 201: Affordances So-called "conceptual offenses" and Ecological Dynamics are often viewed as a coherent pairing However, perceiving an affordance is NOT a conceptual process!🤯 Can this be reconciled??? 🤔😉 x.com/shootxp/status…

"I suppose my quest to ask better questions and discover more complete answers is contrarian in today’s world" Hats off to The Basketball Contrarian, @brianmccormick, and the contribution he's made to progressing basketball and coaching 👏👏👏 brianmccormick.substack.com/p/the-basketba…