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I mean, how many kids today go into the gym and create a 3-on-3 game? Believe me, you can learn a whole lot about yourself and team values playing 3-on-3.”įran Fraschilla, a college coach for 23 years and now an ESPN analyst, has run a number of international clinics and, like Torbett, is an admirer of European teaching. Plus, I think kids can use less structure and a little more fun now and then. Grass roots-level players need more time on the practice floor working on individual skills. “They play too many games in a short time, sometimes three games a day, and I believe that’s wrong. Although there are good coaches out there, it just isn’t for the good of the game. As Stevens said, “In our country, the whole grassroots thing is a concern. Each year a coach starts over, teaching the game from the ground up, and a player only develops so far.”Įveryone interviewed for this story expressed dismay about America’s summer basketball scene, specifically that most AAU programs are far more concerned with winning than actual player development. In most cases, none of those coaches build on what the previous one taught.

Considering how many times kids change schools or summer teams, a 10-year-old might have 10 or more coaches by the time he reaches 18. “In America,” he added, “there is no unifying system of teaching the game. You learn the pick-and-roll at 13 and you don’t even start running plays until age14.

CULINARY FUNDAMENTALS DAY 13 HOW TO

At age 10, you learn spacing and how to run the floor and nothing else. “When I went to Belgium in 2002,” he said, “it was an eye-opener, particularly on how they build fundamentals within the club system from one age to the next. Indeed, Torbett has essentially modeled his 20-layered Read & React on European-style teaching. In both cases, international teams proved they could both shoot better and were far better schooled than Americans in comprehensive technique. international performances at the 2002 World Championship (sixth-place finish) and third place behind Argentina and Italy in the 2004 Olympics as fundamental epiphanies. A record 16 teams have lost 11 or more games and an almost unbelievable 10 have lost 13 or more. It’s probably impossible to statistically quantify declining fundamentals, though some may look no further than this year’s tournament. It’s like these coaches have been given marching orders to run high-ball screens. I watch all these Big East games and in the last minute of every close game, they’re all running high-ball screens. “Last time I checked,” he said, “there were five men on the floor. Meyer agrees with Stevens and Torbett that team play has suffered, that colleges have gone too far emulating the NBA’s isolations, two-man games and triangle offenses. These are the kind of guys who look like puke in warm-ups, then they go out and beat you.” They hit the floor for loose balls, they draw charges, they work on one thing 150 times or until they get it right. That is, B-level talent but an A-level mindset. “Here’s the thing about Butler,” Meyer said. Outspoken, colorful and an undeniable curmudgeon, the 66-year-old Meyer is routinely considered the game’s best teacher. Stevens has an unbridled admirer in longtime coach (38 years and a whopping 923 victories) Don Meyer, who retired last year from Northern State University in Aberdeen, S.D.

I tell our kids that by serving others, you feel better about yourself and your own individual achievement.” It’s definitely a challenge getting the modern athlete to buy into the concept of team. “There’s less an emphasis on unity in society and that carries over into basketball.

“We live in an age where the individual is featured,” said Stevens, whose team has won nine straight and opens the tournament Thursday afternoon against Old Dominion. Last season with a largely anonymous collective of role players, Butler came within two points of beating Duke for the national championship. He’ll get no argument from Butler University coach Brad Stevens, who some believe is leading an informal back-to-fundamentals revolution within the college game.