EP51: How Basketball Coaches Can Implement Clear Principles of Play with Zico Coronel
The Transforming Basketball Podcast
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Balancing Affordances in Set Plays
- Teach players to recognize the difference between 'gold' affordances (high-percentage opportunities to end a play, such as open shots or layups) and affordances that crack the defense's 'ice' but aren't immediately advantageous.
- Encourage players to trust the system and decline less productive affordances early in the play to exploit better opportunities later on as the play develops.
- Explain that multiple actions in a patterned set often work together to create more advantageous situations than isolated individual moves.
- Some players may try to take early opportunities to mask their unfamiliarity with later parts of the play.
- It's crucial to emphasize running plays to completion to learn the full pattern and develop the patience for bigger payoffs.
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