@brianmccormick.bsky.social
PhD. Basketball Coach. Author.
I wrote a previous article about how Curry's "fun" warmups shots are just as important to his success as a player as his two-ball warmups or 100 3s in a row, the "serious" practice predominantly cited for his success.
21.10.2025 10:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I saw somewhere that Steve Kerr had four principles for his team: competitiveness, mindfulness, compassion, and joy.
I remember hearing that when Kerr took over, he looked at Steph and wanted to teach him a better way to play but not reign in the joy he played with.
Keeping joy/fun is vital.
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20.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Players want to be challenged; they don't want to be bored. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/players-se...
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Trying to find objective data to filter the noise and subjectivity of the eye test.
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We hear so much about European development and AAU basketball ruining basketball development in the United States. However, the examples often cherrypick the best examples from Europe to compare with the worst from the USA. There are other examples.
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What is the purpose of our feedback? What is our goal?https://brianmccormick.substack.com/p/the-purpose-of-feedback
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What type of leagues, environments, and systems best promote development? What is most important for young players? for late teens? for near professionals? Is it the same throughout the age and skill ranges?
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Learning from video games
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OH NO. HE. DIDN'T!!!
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Individual workouts and skill development.
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Summary of a recent coaching clinic.
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"How can I get a coaching job?" I'm asked frequently. Beats me, but here is my memory of how I was hired for every coaching job I have had.
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Narratives driving our coaching. brianmccormick.substack.com/p/moving-bey...
06.10.2025 11:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Playmakersleague.com
06.10.2025 01:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Like… as a coach, you are not developing a future nba player at 10 years old, but you can absolutely steer a kid away from the game forever at 10 yrs old. Thats heavy.
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We spend so much time scouting players for the NBA draft & recruiting players for college, but how big is the actual difference between players beyond the can't miss players like Flagg?
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Every coach has some experience, but is that experience generalizable to a new team? A new level? A different gender? Every research studies a topic in a narrow population. Is the study generalizable to a larger population? More complex environment?
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Social media obscured our ideas of skill development.
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I also found my tweet from 2023 when the Clippers were exploring Paul George's trade value, but not Kawhi's.
02.10.2025 05:40 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
What is guiding our decisions?
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Principles, not plays.
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Small-ball was never about size, but skill.
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