The Basketball Parent's Journey Podcast

19/09/2025

Our latest Podcast episode just dropped with Freshman Coach from Dover High School

Podcast Episode · The Basketball Parent's Journey · 08/18/2025 · 1h 4m

19/09/2025

Latest podcast from our Fall coaching course - Week 1 Practice Design!

Coaching Credibility Week 1 - Practice Design (2025)In Practice design, we discuss:- How we approach building skills downstream from decisions, - How to structure practice to prioritize what happens most frequently- Why we use live play to st...

25/09/2024

Building a skill is like building a pyramid:

1) You have to start at the bottom (footwork first)

2) You can only lay one brick at a time (full attention on only one thing)

Join me for our Footwork Forensics workshop at the Seacoast Hoops Lab on October 12 where parents and players will work together to discover and solve common errors that stem from footwork!

https://www.facebook.com/events/513087981418336/

03/09/2024

Fall workshop series coming soon to help parents and players work on how to practice at home!

Which topic would you be most interested in?

1) Footwork Forensics: How to troubleshoot the most common errors that kill your player's advantage!

2) Geometry of Spacing: How to use simple shapes to create space for your team, get them out of your way, and get open for more shots!

3) The 3 Pillars of Defense: How to help your player contain the ball, contest every shot, and get more rebounds!

4) The Sniper System: How to help your player make more shots from deeper range and think like a shooter!

Play-Practice Basketball Seacoast Hoops Lab

02/08/2024

Do you have a player considering fall basketball?

This is for you: https://www.playpracticebasketball.com/parents-guide-2024

26/07/2024

Here are the eight questions we ask every client to find if they are the Right Fit to work with us 

Here are 8 questions we ask every client before moving forward to work with them on the court!What is your motivation for seeking training? What has your pla...

16/07/2024

Great lesson from The Life Coach School

How you talk to your player trains them how they will talk to themselves the rest of their life… and also what they will have to hear from themselves!

Best advice: Ask your player WHAT THEY NEEDD TO HEAR when they make a mistake, and see how your perspective changes!

‎Show The Life Coach School Podcast, Ep Say vs. Hear - Jul 4, 2024

09/07/2024

Thanks to Ilovetowatchyouplay for sharing this article by USA TODAY

“Some people say, well, the competition has gotten so much tougher, and if you’re not playing one sport 365 a year, you're gonna fall behind.

That’s not the reason kids are dropping out.

It's because of the perfectionism that has (been) instilled in them, and inability to reach that perfection. And so, self-doubt creeps in; it creeps in outside of the sport itself and starts to creep into their livelihood. And there's a really dangerous repercussion there.”

It’s not just the yelling and screaming at events that can hurt children. The constant correcting also can chip away at their psyches.

28/05/2024

Latest episode with a college player and current pro on her basketball journey

Lyric is a senior at Rivier University, currently deciding between returning for her last year of college eligibility or playing professionally overseas.Incr...

22/05/2024

Make it matter. 

Every Parent and Coach complains that “players don’t practice in the driveway anymore”

What I find is that your player has no context to relate practice (the way they are being told to practice) to the game they love in any way that is relevant to them.

The two ends of the spectrum of practice where coaches spend all their time are:

1) Stationary drills

2) 5v5 scripted offense

This leaves your player either:

A. Bored - pounding their dribble staring at the wall in the garage (doing what coach said just because he said to) or

B. Lost without 4 teammates and directions from a coach

They literally don’t know what to do, or how to do it in a way that fits into their game.

All we do is make it matter.

We start with game situations (context) to understand the problem (Play)

Then we help them think through and identify the best decision options for that specific situation (only 2)

Then we breakdown the skill needed to execute on each decision (Practice)

Then we play again and test it against live defense

We call this “building skills downstream from decisions.”

The outcome we see is every player practicing an average of 3x more per week in the driveway on their own.

We make skills MATTER to them, and in response, their motivation skyrockets.

21/05/2024

New episode about our Confidence Formula summer program kicking off June 18! 

‎Show The Basketball Parent's Journey, Ep Parent's Info Session - The Confidence Formula Summer 2024 - May 18, 2024

17/05/2024

I gave a impromptu talk on Monday to a group of 6th grade players and our coaching staff about details and came up with an analogy that I have been thinking about more and more in the past 3 days:

Most players look at basketball as a very simple puzzle - like a 20-piece with large squares that a toddler could put together.

They think of it as easy and obvious and are frustrated when they can’t assemble it perfectly when it looks “so easy.”

What we do is “Zoom in” to help them see more detail in 3 important aspects -

1) Imagining a bigger future for themselves in great detail

2) show them that each of the 20 pieces they see is actually made up of 15 smaller pieces, that again are made up of 10 even smaller pieces - making a 3000 piece puzzle

3) show them how to practice so that instead of building a vague picture, or worse - a lot of disconnected pieces that don't fit- we build a cohesive understanding of basketball that works for them.

When you have a big exciting future, a detailed picture of what it looks like, and a system to build the skills you need to get there, then practice becomes exciting!

Working on shaping the next puzzle piece when you already know exactly how it fits into your game, makes motivation skyrocket!

And when each puzzle piece is so small, detailed, and focused, achieving mastery of that 1/3000th of a puzzle suddenly becomes reachable, instead of overwhelming.

This is why we do what we do!