🏀 Surprising solutions to be better prepared
Welcome to The Basketball Academy.
Three ways we create value: We create Confidence. We create Clarity. We instill Capabilities in coaches & players.
Coaching & teaching should be collaborative innovation. The two working together.
The Basketball Academy is brought to you by Changing The Game
Changing The Game is the first-ever completely women-led coach development conference.
They've brought together some of the greatest minds in leadership, biomechanics, practice design, culture creation, skill adaptation, player development, motor behavior, applied performance, sports psychology... and more.
The vision is to multiply the value coaches currently bring to their teams, their families, and their colleagues.
The mission is to flip a culture.
Follow them on Instagram - @Changingthegamefinalfour
SPECIAL GUEST 🚨
Gilbert Abraham
Gilbert Abraham has a burning passion for basketball bred by long days and nights in the gym. Gilbert brings a specialized skill set currently with the Portland Trailblazers. In the past, he has experience coaching, professional basketball training experience, PGC Basketball, and years of instructional work.
Referred to as “Coach A”, Gilbert is an Assistant Coach with the San Antonio Spurs G-League team, the Austin Spurs. He has been preparing players at an elite level for more than 10 years and has trained several professional players all over the world. Abraham has trained well over 50 NBA players, and scores of players playing professionally abroad and in the collegiate ranks.
Coach A over the past 5 years has served as a global consultant to basketball federation(s), professional basketball teams, and a plethora of development organizations. Most recently Abraham served as an Assistant Coach for the San Antonio Spurs affiliate Austin Spurs G-league team.
Gilbert is a graduate of St. Andrews Presbyterian College. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics with a minor in Creative Writing. Abraham is also an alumni of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP), where he earned a Master of Arts degree in Public Administration. He credits his academic approach to the game of basketball to his scholastic background.
Gilbert and his wife Noelle have three children, Gabriel, Eden and Cielo.
Away from the gym, Gilbert enjoys spending time with family, public speaking, poetry and community service.
X & Instagram - @ganabraham
Here’s what we’re serving up:
🏀 #1 - Creating Habits 🗣️
🏀 #2 - Favorite Action 🎥
🏀 #3 - Mental Preparation 💭
LET’S DIVE IN ⬇️
Processing Tendencies 🗣️
Watch more film!
Gilbert has game & practice film going on in his office 24/7. This creates pattern recognition so he can see things before they happen.
France’s development model 📜📃
• France’s ⚽️ development youth model has players doing more training and less games. More SSG’s, more games using different dimensions of the field. They credited this to a big reason why their soccer team is one of the best in the 🌎🌍.
• We want making connections knowledge: where you connect concepts to try and solve a problem as opposed to just rote memorization.
Learning not just how to execute procedures for a certain problem, but how to match a type of thinking strategy to the “structure” of a problem.
Must Add Action 🎥
“Elbow Scissors ✂️✌🏼”
Two great options out of this.
Mental Awareness 💭
Here are things players can be better prepared for when heading into a college or professional environment.
Know what you’re getting into (Lifestyle)
Understand what is required (Daily Choices)
Tolerant of others, strict with yourself - Ryan Holiday
Listen to the pod here ⬇️👇
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BONUS - 🚨 NBA 2K & Kebobs 🎮
Cool story on how NBA 2K can help you as a player and coach
Drill of the week!
Until next week.