Thread by @AlexJSarama

💊Thread: re-thinking traditional "basketball vitamins"
👉This is the closest we would get to vitamins. Instead of 1-on-0, using scripted defense. The cut-off cues a protection plan, which must be different every time. Nash, Barkley, Bounce Out or Back-Pivot.
💡Rep without rep

The problem with normal vitamins in player development is that players make 95%+ of all their reps. This shows the level of difficulty is far from desirable and therefore any supposed effect from the "vitamins" is completely negated. Even a scripted D = more challenge

3⃣ Stay for x3 reps, then change roles, then change locations.
🌬️Typical vitamins are completely unopposed (1v0) and lacking in any form of task representativeness.
💡I do not believe in vitamins because every week the conditions are changing. Plus doing the same thing is boring!

🏀I believe that if we do our job properly as coaches/ player dev, players should not be doing the same thing each week without some variation in the task design & task constraints. Unless there is a major deficiency in a skill, highlighted within the player's development plan.

🔍Furthermore, the vitamins should solve a solution and be part of a systematic approach to the player's long term development. Is it just a random drill the coach has used for years and likes OR something really specific that will help the player?

💊It is IMPOSSIBLE to give everyone the same vitamins or even assign positionally, because every individual is different and has different developmental needs. We can however individualise within a group activity through being creative with application of constraints.

👉 Something like this we would use to finish the warm-up stage before we immediately start the practice (which often means starting with 5-on-5 immediately).