Josh Parcell

HOW TO BUILD AN EFFICIENT HIGH SCHOOL/AAU GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM It isn't about having the fastest, strongest, tallest players (though it helps!) It's about math. Here is my blueprint: a model built on pace, space, and probability. 🧵👇

This type of training is what we call Differential Learning (DL). Using DL for warm-ups is a highly effective strategy, as it “opens up” a player’s system degrees of freedom. It can also be an excellent tool for light training days, especially for recovery, helping players restore a wide range of movement solutions post-competition. When performing DL activities, we want to encourage as much variability as possible. A shooter may shoot out of different stances (e.g., feet wide, feet narrow, staggered, one leg), with different release speeds, varying arc heights, etc. There are an endless number of ways to do this. As the shooter performs their DL tasks, they should continually change their range and location (even if this means taking one or two steps between every shot). The passer should also pass from different angles, from different locations, and with varying velocities and spins.

So exited to announce my re-commitment to @HPUWBB. Thank you @CoachFoust_ for this opportunity! Go Panthers! 💜 @hollyhoop1 @DanielBoice @Assist_U_ @FOPBasketball @JoshParcell @karr_kristen @hoopklip @TimChandlerHK @brad_bur9780

Dominoes offense is the future. 🔑 Zero-second decisions 🔑 1 can’t guard 2 🔑 The floor is lava Basketball is becoming less about actions… and more about how quickly you can create and maintain an advantage to hunt a GREAT shot. The best offenses don’t let the defense reset. They keep tipping the next domino. @theportlandfire

@colbie_wolf @LAE2027 @Assist_U_ @SelectEventsBB @LadyJacketsGBB Lock in 🔒

Looking forward to competing with my @LAE2027 teammates this week in Atlantic City! 🏀🖤💜🎡 @Assist_U_ @JoshParcell @SelectEventsBB @LadyJacketsGBB

@FOPBasketball @KenzieOrtscheid @Assist_U_ @MileyMalcolm @Jetanorth26 @DrexelWBB @RollinsWBB @svsuwbb @CghrMedia @cltmediagroup @SelectEventsBB 👏🏻 love it coach

📢 Drill Of The Day Off-hand pocket passes ➡️ straight into live finishes with a chase-down defender. Developing habits that show up in real games: • Making reads on the move • Delivering with either hand • Finishing through pressure and late contests #FOPBasketball

@colbie_wolf @Assist_U_ @LAE2027 @LadyJacketsGBB So proud of you Colbie! 👏

25-26 Fort Mill High School awards night - Thank you coaches for pushing me, trusting me, and selecting me as this year's team M.V.P. @Assist_U_ @LAE2027 @LadyJacketsGBB @JoshParcell 🏀💙💛🏆

Taking the April Eval period with an experienced grain of salt, but I’m going to encourage these clubs to develop some sort of system for which players can start displaying better decision making. TEAMS develop a common language and some operational standards - and it helps everyone be better. They need the accountability and foundation. Teach them! And players - don’t run away from the coaches who challenge you in this way, please. But - this I’ll stand on: the free-for-all is not benefitting anyone. And “pressing” does not qualify as a system.

Kids don't realize they can get scholarships off of this. But it's not cool enough to play this way.

The ability to catch and stick! Shoulders square, feet pointing to the target, ball immediately in the shooting pocket high and let it fly! Trainers should have no dribbling sessions, get open without the ball and shoot without putting ball on the floor!@TNTSportsUS

Rick Pitino said it best. Love without discipline spoils. Discipline without love hardens. You need both.

The most underdeveloped skill in basketball is not shooting, ball handling, footwork, etc. It’s vision. And nobody is coaching it.

2027 G Caroline Clark @carolinec2027 continues to show why she's one of the best pure shotmakers in NC. 5.5 3PM/gm against stiff competition. ELITE shooting off the catch and the dribble. Does not need much time or space to get her shot off! @LADYATTACKELITE @Assist_U_

@BlakeDuDonis would love you to check this one out!

2027 F Kendall Chadderton (@KendallC_2027) is a rapidly improving prospect. She showed off her impact on both ends of the floor last weekend! ✅6-3 wingspan ✅Face-up game ✅Pick and Roll finisher ✅Rim Protection ✅Guarding 1-5 @LADYATTACKELITE @Assist_U_

Love how our @LADYATTACKELITE 17U team puts our Medal Shooting System 🥇 🥈 🥉 into play. 1.0 pts/shot against two high level opponents this weekend!

Never been prouder of a team than this. Just 6 available players. Down 11 with 8 minutes left and no TO’s vs one of the best programs in NC. W @AllySmith2027 @carolinec2027 @HinaRNakamura @KendallC_2027 @finleylewis2027 @GabrielleY2027 @nicoleamend2027 @colbie_wolf

The best coaches TEACH conceptual offense instead of teaching 78 sets. Having principled offensive structure with freedom & biggest part is constructing practices that cultivate dynamic decision making & figuring things out. 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, etc. + a lot of disadvantage drills, etc

@JoshGrahamShow @kyle_morton9 Josh…….

@kyle_morton9 I agree they aren’t words to describe that degree because I don’t think he is markedly better at all.

Correct. You don’t end a 65+ year lineage to Dean Smith to hire Iowa’s first-year HC or somebody who has never seen the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament. You would’ve been better off keeping Hubert Davis in that instance.

Madden Orlovsky had a heartfelt message for his family and friends in honor of World Autism Awareness Day 🥹 This was a special moment for all of us at ESPN. Thanks, Madden and @danorlovsky7 ❤️