The Basketball Podcast

Episode 209: Noah LaRoche, Researching and Tinkering with Basketball

Mar 30, 2022

01:16:39

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Creating practice environments that replicate game situations helps players anticipate and make better decisions.

Efficiency and simplification are key in skill development, focusing on layups and catch-and-shoot threes.

Contextual learning in small-sided games replicates real-game situations and enhances players' decision-making abilities.

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Shared Cognition and Building Principles

Building shared cognition and principles is crucial in developing players' skills and decision-making abilities. By creating practice environments that replicate game situations, players learn to anticipate and make better decisions. Principles of offense, such as movement off the ball and creating space, are taught systematically to players. The focus is on simplifying the game and building efficiency, with layups and catch-and-shoot threes being the most efficient shots. Coaches help players develop their cognition by providing feedback, incorporating decision-making into drills, and emphasizing the relationship between skill development and game situations.

How Do You Build a Shared Cognition Within a Team?

02:33

Is It Really Tough to Change?

01:59

How to Get Better Decision Makers in the Offence Game

04:39

Introduction

4min

Positioning Is a Skill

2min

What's the Most Important Tactics?

3min

Coaching Coaches

5min

Coaches Develop Through Practice

2min

Is It Really Tough to Change?

2min

Coaches, It's Not Resistance, Its Job Preservation

2min

Coaches Don't Get Better, but Coach Is on My Back to Get Better

3min

Are the Coaches Doing the Same?

2min

10.

What's in Ough Fordance?

1min

11.

Coaches

2min

12.

How Do Coaches Teach Offence?

2min

13.

Coaches, the Key With the Players

2min

14.

What's the Funniest Thing About Shooting Practice?

3min

15.

The Pick and Roll Offence Course on Baskoo Imersion Dot Com

2min

16.

How Do We Cocreate a Solution With Them?

2min

17.

How Do You Create This Environment?

6min

18.

How to Improve Offence Against Defense

2min

19.

The Game Like Shot, Offence and Defence

2min

20.

The Only Two Shots Your Guys Can Make Are Lay Ups and Catch Ang Shoot Shots

2min

21.

How Do You Build a Shared Cognition Within a Team?

3min

22.

Defending Offence Constraints

2min

23.

How to Get Better Decision Makers in the Offence Game

5min

24.

What Happens When You Put a New Player on the Board?

3min

25.

How to Build a Confident Player

2min

26.

How Do You Get Feedback From Your Players?

3min

27.

How Do You Know if You Need to Change a Shot?

2min

28.

Five and Five Off This Move, No, I Not Drop It on a Line

2min

29.

Coachana Col - The Jerome Robinson Example

2min

30.

The Coaches Are Open-Minded

3min

31.

Baskwell Immersion Vidios - The Baskeball Podcast

2min

Guest: Noah LaRoche, Player Development Basketball Coach

In this week's coaching conversation, player development basketball coach Noah LaRoche joins the Basketball Podcast to share insights into researching and tinkering with basketball.

Noah LaRoche is the owner of integrity hoops and as a player development consultant and coach he helps college players prepare for the draft he works with pros like Blake Griffin, Anthony Davis, Russell Westbrook, Harrison Barnes, Paul George, Victor Oladipo, and Diana Taurasi to name a few.

After his playing career at Saint Joseph’s of Maine playing for Rob Sanicola, LaRoche linked to Mike Procopio at Attack Athletics in Chicago, and for two summers he worked under world-renowned trainer Tim Grover, whose elite client list includes Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Charles Barkley, and other NBA stars. This experience earned LaRoche a job at Tilton Academy in New Hampshire, followed by a stint with a successful Chinese Basketball Association team. The next year, he made it to the NBA, working with the coaching staff of the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Today, Noah LaRoche splits his time between the East and West Coasts. As a player development consultant for the Wasserman Media Group, an agency that represents over 50 WNBA and NBA players, he flies each spring to Los Angeles, where he helps college players prepare for the draft. In the summer, he works with pros. And in the fall and winter, it’s back to Portsmouth and Integrity Hoops, where he helps players develop skills, character, and “basketball IQ.” The mission of Integrity Hoops is to positively transform lives through basketball.

Breakdown

1:00 - Blake Griffin Scientific Offseason

4:00 - Positioning

8:00 - Applying Evidence-Based Ideas

17:00 - Job Preservation

23:00 - Feedback

28:00 - Playing Offense

30:00 - Individual Player Development

33:00 - Player and Coach Led Development

36:00 - Differential Learning

42:00 - Independent of Decisions

48:00 - Shared Cognition

50:00 - Random and Variable Reps

56:00 - Intervention

59:00 - Workout Coach

1:01:00 - BDT

1:08:00 - Jerome Robinson

1:12:00 - Conclusion

Noah Laroche’s Bio:

Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-laroche-976a86197/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/noah_laroche

Basketball Immersion

Website: http://basketballimmersion.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/bballimmersion?lang=en

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/basketballimmersion

Facebook: https://facebook.com/basketballimmersion

Immersion Videos:

Check out all our all-access practice and specialty clinics: https://www.immersionvideos.com/

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The Basketball Podcast

Episode 209: Noah LaRoche, Researching and Tinkering with Basketball

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Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Shared Cognition and Building Principles

Efficiency and Simplification in Skill Development

The Importance of Contextual Learning

Designing Practice to Develop Cognition

Principles of Random and Variable Practice

Emphasizing Principles over Technical Skills

How Do You Build a Shared Cognition Within a Team?

Is It Really Tough to Change?

How to Get Better Decision Makers in the Offence Game

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Shared Cognition and Building Principles

Efficiency and Simplification in Skill Development

The Importance of Contextual Learning

Designing Practice to Develop Cognition

Principles of Random and Variable Practice

Emphasizing Principles over Technical Skills

How Do You Build a Shared Cognition Within a Team?

Is It Really Tough to Change?

How to Get Better Decision Makers in the Offence Game

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