Rethinking Talent Identification: An Ecological Lens

In this episode, Dr. Alex Lascu joins the Transforming Basketball podcast to discuss how research can help, rather than hinder, practitioners within the basketball world. Alex highlights the importance of coaches 'trying new things', as well as the challenges coaches face in applying an ecological approach. 

This leads onto a conversation about Talent ID. Alex and Dr. Alex Lacsu discuss the need to reconceptualize what ‘talent’ really means. Alex then shares some of the key themes from her last paper focused on deterministic and probabilistic approaches to talent identification and development systems.

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Key Takeaways

2:25 - Understanding Skill Acquisition: Elevator Pitch

9:02 - Attractors in Coaching Behaviours

14:59 - Responsiveness to an Ever-Changing Environment

16:15 - How do we Define “Talent”? 

25:47 - “If we start to remove those assumptions that people come with nothing, we start to see what they're capable of.”

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